In a case of justice gone awry that’s all too familiar in Mecklenburg County, a violent felon out on parole was back on the streets causing more mayhem. This time it was Zavier Marquis Davis, who police shot during an armed robbery attempt early Friday morning at a Wendy’s restaurant on Park Road. The 25-year-old Davis, […]
Scrambling to find a way to pay the annual $1.5-million operating cost for the city’s streetcar, Councilmember Patrick “At the End of the Day, Per Se” Cannon reached back for an oldie but a goodie, suggesting a surcharge on uptown parking spaces. The tax was previously pitched as one of the scuttled funding options for […]
The Charlotte City Council on Monday night delivered the first installment of a pricey political payoff, when it voted to accept a $25-million federal grant to help build the city’s coveted streetcar project. The total price tag for the route’s first leg, which will stretch all of 1.5 miles, from Time Warner Cable Arena to […]
What federal officials are calling a “technical error” could potentially slam the brakes on the city’s plan to extend the Lynx Blue Line to UNC-Charlotte. Local officials had applied for $40 million in federal money to fund the final piece of an engineering/design study required for the $1-billion light-rail extension project. Last week a U.S. […]
One of the bigger questions left hanging from the termination letter that the N.C. Department of Correction issued to Councilmember Warren Turner, who was fired this week from his job as a state probation officer, isn’t whether the action was justified, but rather why it hadn’t been taken earlier, or whether it would have been […]
Put it at three. Assuming, of course, the N.C. Department of Correction doesn’t backtrack on its decision to fire Councilmember Warren Turner from his job as a state probation officer, which Turner’s lawyers say he will appeal. DOC officials cited no specific reason for their decision to fire Turner, at least not for public consumption, […]
In for a pound; or upwards of $125K in this case. Local leaders are already in steep denial and full obfuscation mode with assurances that the city’s attempt to lure the Democratic National Convention to the Queen City won’t require local tax dollars to bait the hook. Then turning right around with the next breath […]
Not sure what else you can call Charlotte’s continued mad lust for all things rail transit, other than flat-out crazy, although misguided, irresponsible and irrational pop to mind pretty quick. Not content with hitting the federal government up for $25 million to help build a $37 million streetcar line that will stretch all of 1.5 […]
Stories about local politicos taking half-day walking tours of soup kitchens and emergency shelters always make me cringe. Claims that the experience is somehow supposed to give them a better appreciation for the challenges facing the homeless echo as either disingenuous or delusional. In this case, it’s city and county leaders hiking along with Mecklenburg […]
After barely escaping official censure in May from his colleagues on the Charlotte City Council, stemming from an investigation into whether he had sexually harassed city staffers, Warren Turner on Monday was fired from his job as a probation officer with the N.C. Department of Corrections. Secretary of Correction Alvin Keller said in a statement […]
