Tuesday brought a round of electoral good news for folks whose faith had maybe begun to waver about ever breaking the stranglehold that the status quo has wrapped around politics. In several high-profile, closely-watched races, outsider candidates toppled entrenched incumbents. Rand Paul, a first-time candidate with deep roots in the Tea Party movement, defeated Kentucky’s […]
Mecklenburg County employees – at least the ones who still have jobs – would go without pay hikes for the second year in a row, under the budget County Manager Harry Jones rolled out Tuesday night for the upcoming fiscal year. And while Jones cautioned that the pay freeze could put the county at risk […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones quoted and referenced everybody and everything from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Teddy Roosevelt to the P.O.W. Stockdale Paradox, in unveiling a recommended budget that avoids a tax increase, cuts $81 million in programs and services, axes nearly 400 employees, and left Jones, in his words, standing on tippy toes, peering […]
As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continues issuing pink slips to hundreds of teachers, and officials brace for the looming possibility of wholesale school closings next year, the district finds itself trapped in pricey long-term leases for administrative offices scattered around the county and is bartering away millions of dollars for even more new office space at a […]
Along, apparently, with whatever he’s been smoking. Sports Illustrated’s gridiron guru, Peter King, has the Carolina Panther’s ranked as the eighth-best team in the NFL heading into the season and foresees a Wild Card playoff appearance, with a legitimate run to the Big Dance. King also predicts this will be John Fox’s last year prowling […]
Along with, not surprisingly, a boatload of folks tied to some of the state’s top Democrats, including former Gov. Mike Easley, again, and former Senate leader Tony Rand. The N&O breaks it down here – be sure to read the link on Law Enforcement Associates: Federal investigators have issued a subpoena for next week’s grand […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is going to have to get every dime’s worth out of its multi-million-dollar PR budget to spin their way out of this one: firing teachers in front of their students. Nice touch. Next up, the school board clubs baby seals during CMS-TV’s penultimate episode of UpFront! with Superintendent Peter Gorman.
Could be $198.6 million. That’s the size of the bond city leaders are currently floating: $156.6 million for transportation (79 percent of total package); $32 million for neighborhood improvements (16 percent); and $10 million for affordable housing (5 percent). Call me crazy, but asking voters to approve spending nearly $200 million when unemployment continues to […]
… and Cardinals and Archbishops, too. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken to the pulpit, almost literally, her zealous pitch to legalize the status of millions of illegal voters, er, aliens. Earlier this month, Pelosi was staying busy encouraging Catholics of the cloth to start using their preaching powers to push immigration reform. “The cardinals, […]
State lawmakers opened their legislative short session in Raleigh yesterday with a wild card, floating a bid to bring back video poker that could potentially raise a pile of new cash – about $350 million for the first year and up to $576 million by the third year. Sen. David Hoyle, a Gaston County Democrat, […]
