The Democratic Party received a $50 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security to defray security costs at their national convention being held in Charlotte, NC, this year. This year’s convention is a three-day affair (recently downsized from four days due to lack of, uh, funding), and the Men in Black (and Blue) will […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx this afternoon vetoed the budget floated by six councilmembers that would have included a 2.44-cent tax increase to fund a $657 million capital plan without $119 million for Foxx’s coveted Streetcar to Nowhere. The council approved that budget with a 6-4 vote (James Mitchell, absent) and Foxx promptly whipped out the veto […]
That was Mayor Anthony Foxx before he became Mayor Anthony Foxx, back in 2009 when he was running around the campaign trail promising everything to everybody. Here’s the money quote in context, via a clip* from the uptown paper that was reposted at the time on the Black Political Buzz blog: Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony […]
In a repeat performance from last year, funding for Charlotte’s massively expensive expansion of light-rail lunacy is back on track after having been temporarily derailed by fiscal sanity in the N.C. Senate budget. Legislators are slated to vote today on a $20.17 billion budget that restores $25 million in state matching funds for the Lynx Blue […]
Even after a bipartisan effort from local politicians tweaked the rules to make booze readily available for Team BO’s big party, more Democrats are finding the DNC too toxic a pill to swallow and making plans to be anywhere but center stage in Bankster Town USA. This from The Daily: Vulnerable Democrats looking to distance […]
In an unusual turn of events, the Charlotte City Council rejected the plans of City Manager Curt Walton and decided to do its job, which is to be the board of directors to city staff, not compliant followers. Credit is due to Mr. Walton as he has only been following the footsteps of the corporate […]
Residents of Charlotte’s southern suburbs could see fewer capital projects headed their way, and still end up paying a higher city tax rate, if discussions to reach consensus on a city budget stay one course set yesterday at an emergency meeting that was called after the full council earlier this week voted down the city […]
That’s the takeaway from comments that Democrat city councilmember Claire Fallon dropped on WBT this morning, when she said the NC Senate’s move to eliminate funding for Charlotte’s Blue Line light-rail extension was one of the main reasons she and three other Democrats jumped ship to vote against the tax-hike budget championed by Mayor Anthony […]
With a pair of votes that Democrat Mayor Anthony Foxx decried as being everything from “incongruous” and “irresponsible” to “troublesome” and “disgusting,” the Charlotte City Council on Tuesday night shot down a proposed 8-percent property-tax hike budget while approving an $8 million taxpayer subsidy for the Charlotte Knights’ uptown baseball stadium. Let’s take a minute […]
Lewis, Katz, Kaliner, Servatius and now Coakley, who is being shown the door after a one-year stint over at WBT 1110-AM, which is apparently intent on doing its absolute best to drive off its core audience and replacing it with … I’m not sure what. WBT program manager Carl East says the decision to replace […]
