The City of Charlotte managed to land about $57 million in its scramble for federal stimulus money, but one request from the utilities department got flushed down the toilet. Literally. Local officials had applied to the state, which administered distribution of the federal stimulus funds, for about $750,00 to pay for a toilet replacement program. […]
Could somebody explain to me again why we’re spending $37 million on a 1.5-mile leg of streetcar – $12 million of which is local money that could be spent on, I don’t know, little things like fixing the city’s decaying infrastructure.
It’s the place where pipedreams bloom and lollipops and money grow on trees, which is a good thing as nobody has a clue where dollar-one is going to be found to pay this $1.5-million tab. That’s the annual operating cost to run the initial leg of Charlotte’s vaunted streetcar, all 1.5 miles of it, chugging […]
As the uptown lunch bunch goes all-in supporting Charlotte’s bid to land the 2012 Democratic National Convention, they might want to consider the full picture of what the $45 million it’ll cost to bring it to the Queen City is buying. From the 2008 DNC in Denver:
Charlotte’s switch this week to a single-stream recycling system, replete with 310,000 giant, green rollout bins and new collection schedules, apparently threw quite a few residents for a loop. City officials report that the 311 call center was positively deluged by folks with questions and concerns. On the first day that trucks rolled with the […]
Charlotte’s Solid Waste Services Division enters a brave, new world this week, with the advent of its vaunted Recycle It! program that features a veritable army of very large and very green 96-gallon rollout recycling bins, part and parcel of a new single-stream collection system that proponents claim will make recycling easier and more efficient […]
In the wake of a police-involved shooting at Timber Ridge apartments, the uptown paper of record ran a story that highlighted some residents’ complaints that a heavy police presence in the troubled apartment complex, aimed at reducing crime, “can sometimes feel like harassment and increase tensions.” The criticisms come after police there Thursday pursued and […]
Maybe if Charlotte lands the Democratic National Convention, the Queen City can finally drop the pesky N.C. from its national moniker. And really, wouldn’t that alone be enough for the uptown lunch bunch to throw gobs of money at the effort – what Mayor Anthony Foxx predicts as upwards of $45 million to meet the […]
After leaving upwards of $11 million in potential advertising revenue on the table over the last decade, when former Transit Czar Ron Tober and the erstwhile braintrust of the Metropolitan Transit Commission perpetuated the charade that exterior ads on city buses was visual clutter that would ugly up Center City, it appears that commercialism might […]
On the heels of city officials recently voting to fork over $1.4 million to bail out libraries and prevent the wholesale shuttering of branch locations, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night extended another dose of largess when it approved an agreement that will save a handful of county jobs. The council authorized City Manager […]
