According to this article in the Charlotte Observer, over 30 religious leaders in Charlotte used last weekend’s services to speak out against passage of Amendment One, which would ban gay marriage in North Carolina and is on the ballot during the May 8 Primary elections. Cats laying with dogs might be an almost over the […]
Facing a bleak financial future and the near certain death of its programming this summer, public broadcast station WTVI got a million-dollar, midnight-hour reprieve when county commissioners late Tuesday night approved merging the station with Central Piedmont Community College. As part of the deal CPCC, which will take over administrative management, operation and programming of […]
A plan to save struggling public broadcast station WTVI is drawing lousy ratings from County Manager Harry Jones, who calls the proposal “a government-funded bailout of a failed business model.” The station, which last year ran a deficit of about $300,000 and has seen fundraising tumble, has been pushing a proposal that would have it […]
Local talk radio station WBT has landed smack in the middle of a national controversy swirling around Rush Limbaugh, the polemical midday talker who has come under fire for calling Georgetown law student and free contraception-on demand advocate Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” But despite receiving hundreds of emails and calls from people […]
A decision by the Obama Administration to eliminate funding for programs that train and authorize local law enforcement officers to act as immigration agents could jeopardize the status of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) program. Under the program, which Mecklenburg has had in place since 2006, the federal Immigration Customs Enforcement agency provides local […]
Wayne Powers took Leap Year to heart on the last day of filing for elected office, jumping into the Republican primary race for an at-large seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. Powers enters a wide-open and already crowded contest where all three at-large seats on the board are up for grabs. And with […]
The burgeoning problem posed by coyotes running loose in Charlotte-Mecklenburg has received its share of headlines recently, while another public menace from the wild has lingered in relative obscurity. Until now. The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department is launching a program that focuses on the “reduction and removal of the beaver populations at Beatty […]
Mecklenburg commissioners get a second crack tonight to pass a new ordinance that would prohibit camping and unauthorized use of county-owned land, which failed two weeks ago to get the unanimous support from the board it needed to be approved. This time around, it will only require a majority vote to be adopted. What’s at […]
How dysfunctional is the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners? Here’s a good barometer: this week they managed to simultaneously pass a new ordinance without adopting it, essentially hanging out a “Campers Welcome” sign and leaving a door open for the Occupy movement to take up quarters on county-owned property. An ordinance that would prohibit camping […]
Over/Under on how much local GovCo will end up spending in its pursuit to contain or eradicate coyote: I’ll put it at $365K and roll with the Over. In any event, county commissioners heard an update on the area’s burgeoning coyote trouble during their meeting this week. This from WCNC: Over the past few months, there’s […]
