For the acronym-challenged reader, that headline translates as Board of County Commissioners: We Love You Atlantic Coast Conference. To the tune of a quarter of a million dollars, no less, which is how much taxpayer loot commissioners doled out this week to help score some image-branding points and economic development jolt supposedly tied to the […]
At least according to Gallup, which found in a recent poll that “two-thirds of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in their local governments to handle local problems, and a solid majority the same way about their state government.” So how do those confidence and trust numbers hold up for Char-Meck […]
Mecklenburg County commissioners are slated to meet in closed session today to discuss a personnel matter that is linked to a new harassment policy the board is being asked to adopt later tonight at its regularly scheduled meeting, according to a source familiar with the situation. The personnel matter to be discussed behind closed doors […]
Gee, who could’ve seen this coming? Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James let loose one of his infamous e-mailers yesterday, in response to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s reaction to flash mob riots in that city. James’ e-mail, which carried a subject line “Philly blacks attack whites in roving mobs” follows: Just like Charlotte…………………..the Moral Sewer erupts across […]
As the N.C. General Assembly was wrapping up Thursday afternoon to adjourn its session, state lawmakers approved new election lines for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, based on a map drawn by Republican members of a bipartisan citizens advisory committee tasked with creating redistricting plans for commissioners to consider. Democrats are howling with outrage […]
Jeezums – I leave town for a few days of fun and sun at the beach and all kinds of bat guano crazy breaks loose. Where to start? How about with our esteemed city council and mayor, which for weeks have been gnashing teeth over the out-of-control and unaccountable bureaucracy at the Charlotte Regional Visitors […]
The hardest thing about being a conservative politically in this community is that some member (s) of the local Ruling Class Elite is always trying to manipulate you for their purposes. Two recent events which occurred at Don Reids’ Thursday Morning Breakfast Meeting prove my point. First Tim Morgan, one of the RCE’s on the […]
Growing up in New Hampshire, I was exposed firsthand to politics at a very young age. When you live in a small state famous for playing an important roll in the Presidential Primary, it was hard to escape. My first political memory was formed at about the age of 7 when then Vice President Bush […]
As part of the board of commissioners’ discussion Tuesday night to approve spending $156.4 million on capital projects, Commissioner Vilma Leake, a Democrat, offered this nugget of wisdom about paying for school construction as it related to the board’s decision to delay funding for Stumptown Elementary, a move that drew fire from folks living in […]
Mecklenburg commissioners on Tuesday night approved spending $156.4 million to launch 18 capital projects, from parks and greenways to school renovations and new-school construction. But not Stumptown Elementary, a planned $15 million school that parents and education advocates in north Mecklenburg say is long overdue and desperately needed to relieve severe overcrowding at Torrence Creek […]
