Saturday Night House Party
Seems an appropriate mix with PunditHouse co-conspirator Christian Hine representing at RightOnLine this weekend: And a little Southern Culture on the Skids, from the Queen City’s Visulite Theatre:
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City Budget Bunglers
Residents of Charlotte’s southern suburbs could see fewer capital projects headed their way, and still end up paying a higher city tax rate, if discussions to reach consensus on a city budget stay one course set yesterday at an emergency meeting that was called after the full council earlier this week voted down the city […]
Hey, About That County Budget Tax Trim
While the city council’s recent flash of fiscal responsibility and its predictable propensity for doling out taxpayer largess, coupled with the squabble between county commissioners and school board members over restricted CMS funding, have taken center stage in the latest budget sagas, nearly lost in the shuffle has been the ruse of what county leaders […]
Light Rail Knocks Foxx Budget Off Track
That’s the takeaway from comments that Democrat city councilmember Claire Fallon dropped on WBT this morning, when she said the NC Senate’s move to eliminate funding for Charlotte’s Blue Line light-rail extension was one of the main reasons she and three other Democrats jumped ship to vote against the tax-hike budget championed by Mayor Anthony […]
Obamanomics 101
Remember, folks, according to our economist-in-chief, the private sector is doing fine. This from WaPo, which reports that the last three years have “wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline.” The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of […]
City Council Sinks Tax-Hike Budget, Floats Uptown Baseball Subsidy
With a pair of votes that Democrat Mayor Anthony Foxx decried as being everything from “incongruous” and “irresponsible” to “troublesome” and “disgusting,” the Charlotte City Council on Tuesday night shot down a proposed 8-percent property-tax hike budget while approving an $8 million taxpayer subsidy for the Charlotte Knights’ uptown baseball stadium. Let’s take a minute […]
Saturday Night House Party
Shoot us a link with your favorite tunes or vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation:
WBT WTF?
Lewis, Katz, Kaliner, Servatius and now Coakley, who is being shown the door after a one-year stint over at WBT 1110-AM, which is apparently intent on doing its absolute best to drive off its core audience and replacing it with … I’m not sure what. WBT program manager Carl East says the decision to replace […]
Paul Endorses Romney
Rand Paul, that is, as opposed to his father and still GOP presidential contender Ron Paul. So is this enough to get diehard Romney RINO critics to jump on the bandwagon, or at least make pulling the lever for him a somewhat less bitter pill to swallow? Including any of the horde of passionate and […]
Stimulust: Creating Jobs At $4.1 Million A Pop
The Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA/aka The Stimulus) has indeed packed one heck of a wallop, although not exactly the type being perpetually hyped and hawked by The One. Far from it. This from last month’s Congressional Budget Office report: When ARRA was being considered, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the […]
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