The pundits are nearly unanimous in their praise today for Martha Raddatz’s handling of the Vice Presidential debate last night. While not surprising, I believe it’s instructive. Look, I understand the almost knee-jerk response among national journalists to defend one of their colleagues. It happens at a local level, too. I also can accept the anti-male […]
Has anyone seen the slightly amateurish ads lately by the Obama campaign that try to hammer Governor Romney on cutting Big Bird from the federal budget? Probably not, since even Big Bird and PBS has asked the Obama campaign to take the ads off the public airwaves. At a time when we have 23 million un/underemployed […]
I was commenting to my wife the other day about how one lives through history one day at a time, while the historians condense it in books. For instance, we are already four years into the Great Recession, which looks to be continuing into the next president’s term. We live each day with government becoming […]
For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media’s narrative for Wednesday’s presidential debate has already been written. If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the media narrative would be that his unconventional attire was a daring and brilliant move designed […]
City Manager Curt Walton announced his retirement last week and will soon be riding off into the sunset with a truly sweetheart retirement package, thanks to the lucrative salaries and benefits that are routinely guaranteed to highly paid government bureaucrats. Walton, for but one example, pockets a $258,000 compensation package, courtesy of a 6-percent pay […]
OK, you have to admit it. President Barack Obama is the very best President we have ever had in the United States of America over the past 223 years. He is also going to be the very best President we will ever have over the rest of America’s future, whether it is another 1000 years […]
After taking a couple of months off from meeting, the Red Line Task Force chaired by Davidson Mayor Woods met on Wednesday to get an update on the project. The task force efforts to push the finance plan have been on hold since Norfolk Southern (NSRC) sent a series of letters this past spring that raised […]
Here’s a news story you’ll rarely read in your local newspaper: YOUR HOMETOWN (Today) – A masked man armed with a rifle entered a local school today, but left quickly when one of the teachers produced a revolver and ordered him to leave. No one was injured and no shots were fired in the incident. […]
Mayor Foxx told us Charlotte didn’t have enough money for sidewalks, but he doesn’t mind offering money to Jerry Richardson for stadium renovations. One can only suppose professional football is a basic responsibility of government and sidewalks are a perk. Else why would the Observer report this: “Foxx sent a letter to Panthers owner Jerry […]
The Jennifer Roberts Campaign released a poll last week that shows this race to be much closer than conventional wisdom predicts. The published results show the race at Pittenger(R) 38%, Roberts(D) 37%, Campbell(L) 3%, and a whopping 22% still undecided. Very little polling data is available in the typical Congressional House race, so when anything […]
