The scene that unfolded was nothing short of dumbfounding when Charlotte city staff recommended giving $9 million to the Charlotte Knights to help pay for the team’s proposed uptown stadium: Council member LaWana Mayfield asked how board members should respond if residents ask whether their taxes are going up to pay for baseball. No, Deputy […]
A few days ago Fannie Flono, one of the editorial writers for the Charlotte Observer, wrote about another conference to be held concerning racial issues.This one was about how young black men are victims of violent crime and, by the way, are perpetrators of the same. Uplifting justice is highly challenging in recent days. But […]
Wasting money is currently a government function. That, of course, is an opinion. There are too many who, being on the receiving end of the wasteful spending, do not consider it waste at all. They like getting money for nothing. For generations now, the list of recipients has grown each year until we are at […]
It is common knowledge that different types of economic systems have different results. The reason for these varied results has to do with how decisions are made to distribute the material gains of our work. Capitalism has, historically, accumulated wealth as commodities. Commodities translate as those material things that have exchange value; they can be […]
Is Commissioners Chairman Harold Cogdell the first Democrat with any sense of the whole community? Is he the first Democrat with financial acumen? I believe so. All one need do is read his letter to Board of Education Chairman Ericka Ellis-Stewart, to understand his concern for the entire community. Cogdell has the temerity to assert […]
What does the Tea Party and Occupy Charlotte have in common? Crony Capitalism as a legitimate target, and one has to look no further than our own backyard for an example. State and local government representatives, along with their compliant bureaucrats, gave or obligated $22 million to Chiquita Brands to entice them to move their […]
If Commissioner Bill James finds historical records of voting and advocating for public television station WTVI reasons that his Republican primary opponent Ed Driggs is not a “real conservative,” then the record needs to also show that by the same type reasoning, Bill James is not a fiscal conservative. In my possession is a copy […]
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 […]
“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. …There is the (moral) code which he professes to live by, and there is the code to whose standards he actually does adhere.” ~Tom Robbins “Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: […]
For all of you who are concerned about how the police are used in support of the Ruling Class – see Codevillas defining essay – the following is a description with links to an international story of which you should be aware. What is described as Climategate2, another batch of emails showing the fraudelent thoughts […]
