Charlotte and Mecklenburg County’s largess with your money gets special notice this week from the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law’s Corporate Welfare Weekly newsletter. The Queen City and the state took top honors in partnering to hand out about $80 million in promised incentives – read government-speak for bribes – to lure Siemens Energy […]
Either as publisher of the uptown paper of record, or as co-chair of Charlotte Center City Partner’s 2020 Vision Plan. It’s bad enough that Caulkins is a member of the uptown lunch bunch’s board of directors; it is patently egregious that she’s co-chair of the Center City 2020 Vision Plan. Why? For starters, the county […]
It might not be an exact apples-to-apples comparison, but Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James raises the interesting question of how it is that the governor of New York comes under fire for violating state ethics laws by snagging five free tickets to last year’s World Series opener, “but the Democrats on the Mecklenburg County Commission get […]
It was equal parts amazing and amusing watching Commissioner Vilma Leake in action Tuesday night, but mostly it was flat-out scary. At issue was a vote by the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners to approve a change in the structure of the Fire Commission and receive an update on the county’s fire service assessment. The […]
It’s only fitting that after years of rampant and wildly misguided spending, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners got its first look at budget projections for the coming fiscal year during a meeting that was held last month on Fat Tuesday. That’s when commissioners learned the county faces a financial shortfall of at least $15.9 […]
