In their latest effort to secure a minor league baseball stadium for uptown, city staff has tossed out a major league curveball with enough taxing twists to apparently sucker a majority of city councilmembers into taking a swing at a bad pitch. City staff claims its latest proposal strips any property tax loot from an […]
Incoming CMS Superintendent Heath “Pete Repeat” Morrison says his first priority is to reach out and engage the public; so naturally, Morrison rolled out his vaunted 100-Days Entry Plan last week with a Friday afternoon document dump when most people had already checked out for the Memorial Day weekend. This guy should fit right in […]
Some food for thought about the direction our country is headed, if it hasn’t already reached a truly disturbing destination. This from BuzzFeed: An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on […]
This week’s public hearing for the county manager’s recommended budget unfolded as predicted, with scores of teachers and education advocates packing the government center to pressure commissioners into providing additional funding to cover proposed pay raises for teachers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers, who have seen their salaries frozen since 2008, had the right message but the […]
President Obama’s reelection campaign is ramping up its presence on North Carolina airwaves with a new ad focused on veterans and the military: In other news: “40,000” – Approximate permanent population of Ft. Bragg, N.C. in the 2010 Census. “14,177” — Barack Obama’s margin of victory in North Carolina in the 2008 presidential election. President Obama and […]
Following up Tim Nerenz’s column regarding the War on Intoxicant Choice comes news of Obama’s “humane” drug war. This from Reason: At 5:30 a.m. on May 10, armed men broke into the bedroom of Kirk Kyle Farrar’s 12 year-old daughter and shook her awake. The men led her downstairs at gunpoint and forced her to […]
That’s the takeaway from a new SurveyUSA poll of 524 likely voters that shows Obama trailing Mitt Romney, albeit by the slimmest of margins (45% to 44% with 6% undecided) and well within the margin of error range. That’s a significant shift from only a month ago, when a WRAL News survey of registered voters […]
Pat McCrory took a lot of heat during his last gubernatorial bid for being sluggish in response to attack ads launched by the Bev Perdue camp. Looks like the former Charlotte mayor isn’t taking any chances this time around, going so far as filing a complaint with the FCC about a new ad Democrats are […]
I guess when you have America’s first gay president – crowned on the cover of Newsweek, no less, with a multi-colored halo – it was only a matter of time until the first openly gay superhero followed. That’s the direction DC Comics appears headed, with reports that one of its major characters is coming out […]
Bringing new meaning to, um, stimulus funding is this tale from San Francisco, where researchers were awarded upwards of $1.5 million in federal stimulus money for “studies into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and the accurate reporting of someone’s sexual history.” NBC Bay Area talked to the University of California at San […]
