The Big Apple’s health department is moving into some new digs and bringing a whole slew of new mandates and edicts along for the ride. This from the NY Daily News: The updated rules – which range from what workers can serve at agency powwows to how loud they can talk in the office – […]
Mired in confusion, unanswered questions, and allegations of corruption, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night delayed a vote to award lucrative contracts to three companies to provide taxi service at Charlotte/Douglas International airport. It was the second time in as many months that a vote has been scuttled because of concerns with the process […]
A contingent of Charlotte councilmembers and city staff is living large in the nation’s capital this week, soaking up lessons on how to grow government and spin the public at the annual National League of Cities Congressional City Conference. Charlotte taxpayers will likely shell out in excess of $15,000 for the five-day event, to include […]
The bill for years of misprioritized spending at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools came due Tuesday night, paid in part with the prepping of pink slips for nearly 400 teachers and 164 instructional support staff. The Board of Education with a 6-3 vote approved a set of guidelines that will be used as CMS implements a reduction in […]
As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools looks for the second year in a row to cut campus security associates from a $1 billion-plus budget, a new state report shows crime and violence skyrocketing district wide. It’s the seventh consecutive year that CMS has seen spikes in a majority of 17 types of reportable violent and criminal acts, tallying […]
Mecklenburg Commissioner George Dunlap had the perfect opportunity at Tuesday night’s board meeting to clear up pressing questions about why and when he requested the county manager to release protected personnel information of former sheriff and current commissioners vice chairman Jim Pendergraph. Dunlap instead spent nearly a half-hour ranting and braying about what he called […]
Billed as a nonpartisan effort to gather community input and consensus on what city and county services residents value most, and how far they’d go to support them as local governments look to cut budgets, the “Get Real 2011” initiative this week kicked off what organizers hope will be a series of public forums and […]
After Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones acknowledged misleading the public and his county commission bosses, and wrongfully outing protected personnel information of the county’s former sheriff and current board vice chairman, Jones apologized for his transgressions and walked away without so much as a formal reprimand from commissioners. Jones was on the hot seat Tuesday […]
At Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, that is, where a string of disturbing incidents has attracted scant attention or appropriate oversight from local officials, elected or otherwise. First we have 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale apparently breaching airport security, stowing away inside the wheel well of a US Airways jet and falling to his death from the sky over […]
As massive protest, violence, and overall tumult broil in Egypt, with anti-government factions calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the Obama Administration continues to waffle on taking any official stand on a desired outcome. Meanwhile, concerns continue to mount that a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood could possibly step in to fill any […]
