Yes, Sue Myrick did admirable work during her early term-limit pledge years to advance the conservative cause; but after nine terms, a borderline-irrational obsessive fixation on Muslims, and wrangling to land fed funds for Charlotte’s light-rail Lynx Blue Line boondoggle, her act had grown somewhat tiresome. Myrick announced yesterday that she wouldn’t be seeking re-election, […]
Cornelius Mayor Jeffery Tarte, at the direction of and on behalf of the Cornelius Town Board, this week fired a shot across the bow of Mecklenburg County’s revaluation process, giving official voice to simmering frustrations from homeowners who think they’ve been dealt “the short end of the stick.” In a letter to Mecklenburg Commissioners Chairman […]
It’s taken entirely way too long, but finally a responsible government body (I know, it’s very much the oxymoron, but stick with me here) has stood up to voice legitimate concerns and demand realistic projections for an astonishingly pricey rail-transit project. It happened this week when the Iredell Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to […]
Commissioner Jennifer Roberts might not be at the head of the table anymore, but tax increases seem to be the order of the day unless what we are reading is leaving something out. County officials are working on a scheme to levy a new tax. They call it a “new funding vehicle for delivery of […]
A group of about 40 residents from south Mecklenburg, including County Commissioner Bill James and City Councilmember Warren Cooksey, huddled this week to discuss the possibility of Ballantyne and a swath of suburbia breaking from Charlotte to form its own city. And folks from Mecklenburg’s southern suburbs, it turns out, aren’t the only ones contemplating […]
It’s been almost two decades since Bill James took a seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, representing the heavily suburban, southern swath District 6 of the county, and nearly as long since the oft-outspoken and controversial Republican has faced a legitimate challenger at the ballot box. This year is looking to prove an […]
That would be the new moniker and rallying/battle cry if the brainchild of Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, a Republican who represents, in part, the southern wilds of the county ever comes to fruition. From a mass email James launched today: Mecklenburg needs a new ‘Town of Ballantyne’ If consolidation talk won’t die; Southern residents need Town […]
When the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners wasn’t preoccupied at its meeting this week launching investigations into the possibly nefarious doings of one or more of their own, commissioners stayed busy tackling some of the top priorities of local governance. The meeting’s opening prayer and pledge were no sooner over and done when Commissioner Vilma […]
The city council gave final approval of the multi-million-dollar Chiquita peel deal last week; county commissioners are on tap tonight to follow suit. A truly proud and progressive moment for Char-Meck GovCo and the company they keep:
Less than three days into his tenure as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Harold Cogdell is already neck deep in serious allegations of pay-to-play politics for his role in landing copious amounts of tax dollars for a local non-profit agency that subsequently hired him as its attorney. Some of the more notorious […]
