As we predicted, there’s movement afoot at CMS to tweak and/or consolidate at least some of the school system’s district offices that currently anchor so-called learning communities scattered across the county. Confirmation of such came about by pure happenstance: I recently found myself sitting beside a top-ranking member of CMS’ executive staff and overheard him […]
In an email sent over the weekend to all 11 members of the Charlotte City Council, Mayor Anthony Foxx warned his colleagues to not sexually harass city staff. The letter makes no reference to either who might be doing the alleged harassing, or who is being harassed. Even with a $70,000-a-year spokesperson, Foxx is declining […]
Why are the Democrats trying to make kamikaze pilots look sane by comparison? Because they know that when they pass this health care reform (sic?) bill into law, it will never be repealed. Ever. Let’s think about this for a moment. Why are the Democrat leaders in Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader […]
The findings of a citizens’ Water Solutions Task Force released this week reveal that a lot of folk in Cornelius apparently enjoy long showers and really green lawns; that Charlotte’s utilities department has problems with defective meter readers; that the city has for years been raiding the utilities treasure chest to pay for capital projects […]
While the 2010 primary election day is May 4, calling it “election day” these days is quite the misnomer. The Mecklenburg County Board of Elections began mailing out absentee ballots on March 15 and will continue to do so for all requests made by April 27th. Don’t have a stamp? Well, don’t worry. Starting April […]
PunditHouse.com is proud to announce that due to a high volume of requests, we will soon be adding a brand new feature to our front page that will highlight the news, opinions, and well, general rants from our readers! Our programming department…that would be me…is nearly finished with the coding to add a “Letters to the Editor” section. If […]
There’s been ambiguous talk popping up in media reports concerning possible moves by CMS to do something with its learning community outposts, those pricey offices scattered around the district that debuted as CMS’ answer to decentralization. By most counts the district offices have been a flop, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and doing […]
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 […]
News from over the weekend has Jake Delhomme headed to Cleveland to live out his glory days. Best of luck to Jake; he’s going to need all he can get. I grew up close enough to the shadows of Cleveland’s old Municipal Stadium to see firsthand how unrelentingly brutal and demanding Browns fans can be. […]
Let the sun shine in? It’s a nice thought; but with our local government cloudy with a chance of rain is more likely, making the uptown paper of record’s headline that Commissioners Chairperson Jennifer Roberts endorses an open system of transparency all the more painfully ironic. This from the chairperson of a board that thumps its […]
