Maybe County Manager Harry Jones will land that Alabama gig before he releases his budget recommendation next month. Otherwise, it sounds like MeckCo taxpayers are in for a big hit. This from WBTV: Wednesday night Mecklenburg’s county manager told WBTV he’s likely to recommend a budget in three weeks that increases the tax burden on […]
I swear it’d be easier dealing with back alley loan sharks than with the board of commissioners’ tax-and-spend majority. At least loan sharks are upfront about their money grabs. Not so much Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts, last seen trying once again to convince folks that just because they might end up paying more in property […]
I figured at first the uptown paper was a little slow on the calendar and this piece must be a belated April Fool’s spoof; but nope – just more proof that with our board of county commissioners, fact is indeed stranger than fiction. In this case, commissioners are considering bringing in a team-building consultant/group dynamic […]
The dire impact of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s revolving courthouse door of alleged criminal justice has crossed state lines. In this case, it’s a multi-repeat offender who skated on a murder charge only to end up accused of another murder in Georgia. WBTV’s Tom Roussey runs down the sordid backstory: Stacey Dooley of Charlotte is charged with murdering […]
New values delivered this week for commercial properties in Mecklenburg County that reflect significant increases across the board seem to directly contradict the county’s own dire forecast on how local markets were trending, giving rise to predictions for wholesale reval appeals and an increased possibility that a majority of homeowners will be walloped by a […]
Let me first start by giving my sincerest congratulations to Gideon Moore, the new MECK GOP Chairman! Gideon has proven himself to be a hard worker within the party, he put together a large team, and I believe he is going to be relentless in continuing to build out the precinct organization. As someone who […]
For acting like cops, apparently, which a three-judge appeals panel has already ruled is a no-no, at least not when Presbyterians, alcohol and driving are involved. The N.C. Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments Tuesday morning that will determine if the ruling holds. This from DavidsonNews.net: The case stems from a 2006 incident in […]
Mecklenburg Commissioner George Dunlap had the perfect opportunity at Tuesday night’s board meeting to clear up pressing questions about why and when he requested the county manager to release protected personnel information of former sheriff and current commissioners vice chairman Jim Pendergraph. Dunlap instead spent nearly a half-hour ranting and braying about what he called […]
Or engage in other unlawful conduct, gross negligence of duties or willful malfeasance, according to the sweet-deal contract inked for Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones. Under the terms of that so-called employment agreement, if Jones were fired, even with cause, before December 31, 2011, he would be “treated as if he had completed 20 years […]
Billed as a nonpartisan effort to gather community input and consensus on what city and county services residents value most, and how far they’d go to support them as local governments look to cut budgets, the “Get Real 2011” initiative this week kicked off what organizers hope will be a series of public forums and […]
