Let’s see. How, oh how, could we possibly trim the projected $1.3 million shortfall over at the uptown racing museum? Let’s ask the three cheerleading chieftains supposedly in charge of driving tourism in the greater CharMeck region for some answers. Surely, with their combined salaries that approach nearly, well, what do you know, nearly $1 […]
A new set of rules to determine where subsidized housing can be built in Charlotte got a cold shoulder Monday night from the city council, which fretted that a proposed locational policy doesn’t go far enough to help disperse affordable housing throughout the city and would still leave some of Charlotte’s most fragile neighborhoods vulnerable […]
City officials are again conceding, this time in writing, what all us ignorant cavemen knew way back during the half-cent sales tax repeal vote: Charlotte’s transit system is wholly unsustainable. So naturally, the braintrust behind the plan wants “new long term revenue sources for transit.” That’s government-speak for new taxes and/or fees and city officials […]
The GOP simultaneously bucked and repeated history Tuesday night in an election that saw Republicans capture both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, while again coming up painfully short in their attempt to wrest majority control of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. And in […]
So says the grassroots, good-government advocacy group StrengthenCharlotte, offering a plethora of compelling reasons for why voters should reject the city’s $204-million bond ask at the polls. The real surprise: an across-the-board thumbs-down on all three bond fronts, which appear on ballots as individual issues: $157 million for transportation; $32 million for neighborhood improvement; and […]
Transit tax revenue is on the decline, but the good folks at Charlotte Area Transit System are still sitting pretty, even as they hike bus fares. Sitting better than pretty, actually, flush with nearly $1 million worth of new office furniture. The city council this week approved an $897,173 contract for the purchase and installation […]
Eastland Mall could reopen as early as Christmas 2011 with a major facelift to include a Hispanic theme and dozens of small businesses, instead of a handful of major anchor stores, as the catalyst to drive future development. Texas-based Boxer Properties bought the main section of the now-shuttered mall – about 500,000 square feet – […]
UPDATE (10/04): After meeting behind closed doors Monday night, City Attorney Mac McCarley emerged to announce that no settlement has been approved in the Jackson case. But that doesn’t mean the city isn’t getting ready to shell out some big bucks. While no official settlement was announced, the uptown paper of record is reporting that […]
After nearly eight hours of deliberations over two days, the jury in the Demeatrius Montgomery trial today returned a unanimous verdict: guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, life in prison, no parole, for the 2007 brutal slayings of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. We’ll have updates as they become available.
Another shiny new thing for uptown! And judging by the packed-house attendance at a community forum to update progress on Charlotte’s streetcar project, the excitement and anticipation is palpable. Check out the video from News 14. And it’s evident that our city’s braintrust not only remains completely clueless about where to find $1.5 million to […]
