Remember the halcyon days of yore, way back in February 2011, when city leaders were bursting pride and joy that the Queen City had just been crowned with the Democratic National Convention. Officials crooned that the DNC would shine a national spotlight on Charlotte, highlighting its world-class dreams and aspirations and paving a road for […]
Breathe easy, citizen; Charlotte’s powers-that-be have deemed it permissible for law-abiding folks to walk their dogs during what was announced this week will be the city’s first round of officially designated “extraordinary events” – the upcoming shareholders meetings for Bank of America and Duke Energy, along with uptown’s Speed Street and July Fourth celebration. Recall […]
Having already shortened the Democratic National Convention from four to three days and moved The One’s big speech to Bank of America stadium where the party can pimp out luxury box suites for extra loot, it seems the convention’s host committee is still struggling for cash. The solution: Get big labor unions to help cover […]
Is WBT actively trying to drive away listeners, or trying to draw a different set of listeners? Don’t know; but the bottom line is that yet another talented, wickedly funny and, maybe most important, local talk show is leaving the airwaves after management decides to not renew his contract. This from WCNC: WBT-AM radio host […]
In advance of Mitt Romney’s visit to Charlotte today, the local Democrat party, via Mayor Anthony Foxx, pens an op-ed for the uptown paper that argues Obama “has put America, North Carolina and Charlotte back on track.” Fair enough, assuming the track is headed in the same direction as Foxx’s multi-million dollar Faux Streetcar To […]
As surely as you can count on the sun rising, you can bank that the perpetual money pit calling itself Charlotte Mecklenburg Utility Department will request and receive an annual fee hike for water and sewer bills. CMUD is at it again, with officials this week lamenting that an average rate increase of 6 percent is […]
That would be Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who blew into town last week for some photo opps, a fancy dinner, and some shameless vote-pandering to the Hispanic community, all while gushing about Charlotte’s “energy” and “dynamism.” Villaraigosa was all smiles and spin for the cameras here, but his absolutely abysmal performance of late out […]
The Charlotte City Council approved spending $541,000 this week to install decorative streetlights in two urban neighborhoods, but not before lighting up accusations of class warfare and reopening a contentious debate on the tens of thousands of dollars the city continues to pay every month for streetlights that don’t work. The city has an annual […]
They probably don’t know it, but the Occupy Charlotte movement is gearing up to protest the exorbitant cost of light rail. Their specific target is bus/rail fare increases being proposed by the Charlotte Area Transit System, which Queen City occupiers – last seen being rousted from their uptown encampment – are encouraging folks to speak up […]
According to this article in the Charlotte Observer, over 30 religious leaders in Charlotte used last weekend’s services to speak out against passage of Amendment One, which would ban gay marriage in North Carolina and is on the ballot during the May 8 Primary elections. Cats laying with dogs might be an almost over the […]
