After skirting open meeting laws and lurking in seculsion at the airport to interview prospective candidates for the high-flying gig of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent, the Board of Education today announced three finalists to trot around town over the coming days in meetings and forums with the public and schools officials: Long-time CMS administrator Ann Clark, […]
That would be Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who blew into town last week for some photo opps, a fancy dinner, and some shameless vote-pandering to the Hispanic community, all while gushing about Charlotte’s “energy” and “dynamism.” Villaraigosa was all smiles and spin for the cameras here, but his absolutely abysmal performance of late out […]
… it deserves at least passing mention when a Bulldog named Bubba takes the Masters into a playoff and pulls an appropriately ludicrous shot out of his bag to win the coveted green jacket. Whether you love or loathe golf, Watson’s backstory and recent history make this one memorable and more than a little cool: […]
Or maybe that should be a soiled Red State, because this doesn’t deal specifically in the traditional, color-coded political sense that you’re probably thinking. This red has to do with ratings, as in from the American Petroleum Institute, which maps out the states with the highest combined local, state and federal gasoline taxes. Guess who […]
The Charlotte Knights, last seen hitting the city council up for a cool $11 million to help build their vaunted uptown stadium, recently told county officials that the team had secured sponsorship deals, to include stadium naming rights, required by the economic grant agreement being pondered by Mecklenburg County, which has already pledged $8 million […]
Says here that three tickets won the record-setting $640 million Mega Millons lottery jackpot; a lot of loot, to be certain, which would take any near-normal, rational person years to burn through. Know what’s not normal or rational? The Indy Star’s Gary Varvel does and puts the insanity that is our federal government in stark […]
That would be End of Month, for the acronym challenged; a new twist we’ve added to help keep the House up and running, in which we entreat readers for some financial support. A tip drive, if you will. Think of it this way: when you go out for dinner, most folks leave a tip for […]
The question started churning in my brain when Tea Party favorite, Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee, tossed his weight behind Mitt Romney. The churning turned into a rumbling with a formal Romney endorsement from George H.W. Bush, along with one from Florida’s Sen. Marc Rubio. And now this: That’s a mighty load of churning and rumbling […]
Alternate headline – McCrory: “I Am Not a Sheep” – shamelessly stolen from guerilla blogger Jeff Taylor, who runs down our former mayor’s strange assemblage of a Gov2012 campaign team: Pat McCrory — long regarded as an easy mark by GOP consultants looking to take his money — has hired Fred Davis to helm his TV […]
The Charlotte City Council approved spending $541,000 this week to install decorative streetlights in two urban neighborhoods, but not before lighting up accusations of class warfare and reopening a contentious debate on the tens of thousands of dollars the city continues to pay every month for streetlights that don’t work. The city has an annual […]
