The clock for the Occupy movement to decamp its entrenched hovels on the lawn in front of old City Hall began ticking Monday night, when the Charlotte City Council approved new ordinances that prohibit camping on city property and give police more clout to stop and search people during the Democrat National Convention or any […]
I attended last night’s City Council meeting to listen to the public hearing on proposed changes to the rules and regulations regarding protest and assembly on city property. I found it awkward that the occupy movement had so many speakers against the proposals, which was also the side I was taking. Two agreements with that […]
Seriously. On Monday night, January 9th, the Charlotte City Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinances that will affect protests during the DNC and the Occupy movement. The Council’s schedule for the evening is available HERE, and the specific proposals being discussed can be found HERE. Among the proposals are the creation […]
Charlotte is wheeling its way down a path to have a burgeoning bike-share program up and running in time for the Democratic National Convention, with an eye toward keeping the pedals churning long after the political circus leaves town. The city council’s Planning and Transportation Committee last month gave the green light to launch planning […]
Crime, both violent and property, declined across the board and across the country for the first half of this year, with Charlotte’s numbers reflecting much of the same, according to the FBI’s just-released preliminary semi-annual uniform crime report, which covers January through June 2011. In Charlotte with the help of the law firm for drug […]
Former city councilmember and well-connected about-towner Lynn Wheeler is reporting on her Facebook page that Char-Meck’s moneyed and political elites will be jet-setting across the pond to London for the 2012 Chamber Inter City Visit. Haven’t been able to confirm it yet; if true, chalk it up as one of the truly tone-deaf, bone-headed moves […]
You wouldn’t know it to listen to Michael Smith of Center City Partners or to Governor Beverly Perdue, while they were basking in the floodlights of just having bought, not brought, 400 jobs to Charlotte by spending millions of dollars, but the real reason we taxpayers are now on the hook for funding the job […]
While the $50 million of federal funding that Charlotte recently nabbed to help pay for security when the Democratic National Convention rolls into town has captured banner headlines, another large sack of security loot that’s landed in the Queen City’s lap has barely registered a blip of publicity. Maybe that’s because unless you were watching […]
When two organizations with generally different viewpoints on the nations political situation can agree on a local issue, it says something. The President of CAUTION, a Charlotte based Tea Party organization, and a spokesperson for Occupy Charlotte announced today that their respective organizations stand in opposition to a proposed incentive package for Chiquita Brands International […]
So I’m watching a clip of Attorney General Eric Holder sweating it in front of a House Judiciary oversight committee investigating the wholesale and deadly failure of Operation Fast and Furious, parsing words in an attempt to prevent burying himself even deeper into a pit of illegalities, perjury and criminality, and I’m pretty sure I […]
