Apologies – that header should read Habitual Criminals Catch More Breaks. Because our revolving door of criminal justice isn’t spinning quit fast enough, new legislation will apparently add more grease to the hinges. It comes courtesy of HB 642, co-sponsored by Mecklenburg County’s very own Becky Carney, and is already drawing backlash from district attorneys. “I used […]
Like the mythical cat, the man just keeps on keeping on. Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones, who five months ago, embroiled in yet another scandal, was reduced to cutting a shameless video to proclaim he wasn’t leaving his $243K manager’s post any time soon, has been tapped as president of a statewide GovCo leadership group. […]
I always liked the work Vince Coakley did from the anchor desk during his stint with WSOC-TV. How successfully he transitions his media skills to a straight, talk-radio format is open for question; but answers won’t be too long in coming. Coakley has been named the new afternoon-drive host at WBT, filling the gap left […]
Is none other than – get ready for it – Commissioner Vilma Leake, who was tapped at last night’s county board meeting to serve as Mecklenburg’s voting delegate at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference, slated to be held next month in Portland, Oregon. Leake made the motion to nominate Leake as the county’s […]
It was only a few months ago that the county manager and budget director openly acknowledged that Mecklenburg could not afford the government it has. So naturally, the Democrat majority on the board of county commissioners, with a party line vote Tuesday night, approved a budget that grows government by upward of $70 million. The […]
It seems the FBI has some questions and is investigating two local taxicab companies that took the Mecklenburg Department of Social Services for a ride – or not, in multiple cases allegedly bilking the taxpayers for phantom trips. This from WCNC: The two cab companies made up about two-thirds of the DSS billing in 2009, […]
Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts is actively lobbying the public to support her self-proclaimed “education budget,” which would use a rate-neutral spending plan to funnel $50 million in additional county funding to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and dramatically increase the tax burden on a majority of homeowners. The county board chairman’s e-newsletter, paid for by the Committee to […]
Under the county manager’s proposed budget of largesse, commissioners stand ready to receive a nearly 70 percent increase for their so-called allowances. Overall, the board’s total allotment would increase to $418,715, a 12 percent jump from the current $372,629. Part and parcel of the perk pump, each commissioner would receive $7,200 for a nebulously titled […]
GOP mayoral hopeful Scott Stone let loose a media release today calling on Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts and the county board to go back to the drawing board with the revaluation process: Stone called for this “Reval Redo” so that process can be performed more fairly and so that the values more closely reflect actual […]
More than 88,000 households can look forward to a tax increase in excess of 20 percent if the county board approves a rate-neutral budget being pushed by Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts. That number would drop to just shy of 60,000 households facing a 20 percent or more tax hike under a revenue-neutral budget plan. The […]
