There are many reasons why Pat Cotham should be chair of the county commission, including the fact that she received the most votes. However, the reason I support Pat Cotham is one word: leadership. Cotham is a true leader willing to take on the tough issues in a time when members of both parties shy […]
A controversy is brewing within the Mecklenburg County Republican Party. On March 15, the Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner will be held at the Carmel Country Club. This event is the single largest fundraising opportunity held every year for the County Party, which is by and large responsible for it’s own funding. It has not […]
It’s been an ugly two days on a couple of Mecklenburg County boards. On Monday, the new town of Huntersville board was sworn in and shortly thereafter returning mayor Jill Swain called for a vote on her committee recommendations…recommendations that altered tradition and left top vote getters off of important committees. House Guest Rick Short […]
*Editors note: Our friends at SPARK (Strategic Partners for Accountability and Reform of Key Educational Performances) and SMART (South Mecklenburg Alliance of Responsible Taxpayers) have provided PunditHouse with the following position paper outlining their opposition to CMS bonds on the ballot this November 5. OVERVIEW: After allowing the bond process to unfold, it is now time […]
Readers will remember that last week’s new government expenditures consisted of about a million dollars of Charlotte-Mecklenburg taxpayer money being given to the highly profitable Cedar Fair, owners of Carowinds Amusement Park. Both the Charlotte City Council and the Mecklenburg County Commission OK’d sizable tax incentives in hopes of guaranteeing an expansion of the park. […]
Huntersville Mayoral candidate Jim Puckett will be addressing the citizen’s group WidenI77.org, and its related organization, TollFreeNC.org, at an open meeting on Thursday, September 12 at Harvey’s in Huntersville. The public is invited to come and meet Jim and hear his perspective on I-77 HOT lanes, the Red Line, and other transportation issues facing the […]
Okay, we have reached the tipping point. While there are confusing public statements about what the County should do to implement S159, I now believe that Bobbie Shields’ interpretation of the law is correct, i.e. a Review, not a Redo. Having said that, it is critical that the State clarify what the County should do, […]
*Submitted by former Cornelius Town Commissioner Jim Bensman. You will have read in the Observer that Debbie King decided not to accept the consultant position offered her by the County. The reason is easy to understand. The County was not prepared to give her the authority or the time to get the job done. If […]
*Written by Jim Bensman, former Cornelius Town Commissioner and very active participant in the battle for correcting the failed revaluation. Last week the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners finally voted to engage Debbie King as a consultant to work in the Assessor’s department working for Dena Diorio. While I have not seen the terms of her engagement, […]
Kim Ratliff says she’s listening. Ever since the at-large county commissioner let loose a whopper of a Kinsley gaffe, opining that Mecklenburg County’s next manager should’t be a white man, she has apparently been deluged with emails from people asking her to resign her commission seat or, at the least, recuse herself from the process of […]
