That’s the former mayor’s take on the Queen City’s DNC experience and the heavy-duty, paramilitary security drop that’s landed on Charlotte. This from National Review: “You’ll not meet many people from Charlotte here this week,” (McCrory said). “The security is keeping everybody away. They wouldn’t even let me in this building — which is outside […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx’s highly touted and ballyhooed speech at the DNC, that is, which lasted all of nearly four minutes. In all fairness, Foxx has probably been too busy lo these many months to spend much time prepping for the biggest political stage of his career: passing a city budget that tackles priorities without hiking […]
Recall the glory days back when Charlotte landed the DNC and champagne corks were popping and it was high-fives and big smiles all round. Back when Gov Bev boasted of North Carolina that, “We’re not just the New South, we are the New America.” My how times have changed. Gov Bev is the ultimate lame […]
Charlotte’s proposal to ban cell phones while driving likely hit a major hang-up this week with news that a similar ordinance in Chapel Hill has hit a legal brick wall. This from the Herald-Sun: Town leaders expressed surprise and frustration Thursday at the news that the town’s controversial towing ordinance and cellphone ban was shot […]
Democrat Mayor Anthony Foxx appears to be the driving force behind a letter that has been quietly circulated to a select group of “thoughtful” community leaders, encouraging them to lobby Mecklenburg commissioners to support moving forward with a so-called Charter Study Commission to be charged with preparing a report on and plan for consolidating the […]
How real is the potential for brute ugliness and mayhem, accompanied by a full-scale police state descending uptown when the DNC rolls its party into Charlotte? Plenty real to judge from the DHS ramp-up to prepare not only for the Queen City bash, but also its RNC counterparty down in Tampa. The Department of Homeland […]
Congratulations, Queen City taxpayer, you’re the brand new owner of 81 acres of blight, courtesy of the Charlotte City Council and its unanimous vote to shell out $13.2 million to purchase the dilapidated and decaying remnants of Eastland Mall. But not to worry; the council has a reason for jumping into the speculative real estate […]
Temperatures are hitting triple digits, leaving Charlotte baking and broiling. How hot is it? It’s so hot … … Charlotte’s local Tea Party changed its name to the Iced Tea Party. … Curt Walton has declared Ray’s Splash Planet an Extraordinary Event zone. … the Bobcats are trading Kemba Walker to New Orleans for a […]
What happens if you throw a party and nobody comes? Charlotte might learn the hard way, as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is now proactively encouraging candidates facing reelection to steer clear of Barack Obama’s coronation in BanksterTown USA: The Democrat charged with trying to win back the House majority is telling […]
Organizers for the Democratic National Convention have announced that their big Labor Day shindig is relocating from Charlotte Motor Speedway to uptown Charlotte. The local host committee, along with the usual uptown lunch bunch crowd, is desperately trying to spin the move as a way to provide both easier logistics and also create “an experience that […]
