News of felon and former NC House Speaker Jim Black stiffing school children by dodging full financial restitution stemming from a string of criminal corruption convictions shouldn’t come as any surprise. Ethics have never been the Democrat’s strong suit. Screwing the public and abusing power? That’s a different story entirely. And folks should’ve seen this […]
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From our House to yours, all the best for a healthy, prosperous and blessed New Year.
Despite a provision rolled into a year-end spending bill that blocked funding for enforcement of new light bulb efficiency standards, the twisty tyranny of bulbs will still start phasing in as scheduled on Jan. 1. The new energy law requires that incandescent light bulbs be 30 percent more efficient starting in 2012. Critics of the […]
Funny, I always thought Richard Burr was more politically aligned with Ron Paul. I mean, you know, when Burr wasn’t staying busy bolstering bank bailouts and deficit spending, supporting warrantless wiretapping, and playing Big Brother food cop. This from the Washington Post: Burr, a 17-year Capitol Hill veteran who served five terms in the House […]
Charlotte is wheeling its way down a path to have a burgeoning bike-share program up and running in time for the Democratic National Convention, with an eye toward keeping the pedals churning long after the political circus leaves town. The city council’s Planning and Transportation Committee last month gave the green light to launch planning […]
That would be the new moniker and rallying/battle cry if the brainchild of Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, a Republican who represents, in part, the southern wilds of the county ever comes to fruition. From a mass email James launched today: Mecklenburg needs a new ‘Town of Ballantyne’ If consolidation talk won’t die; Southern residents need Town […]
Just in time for the New Year, the federal government earlier this month stepped up to the plate and solved that most pressing of problems plaguing modern society. This from the always vigilant comrades at the FCC: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today took a major step toward eliminating one of the most persistent problems […]
Luke 2:1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up […]
Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James has asked the county’s internal auditor to investigate possible improprieties or illegalities concerning salary and benefit payments made to the school board’s newly elected vice chairman, Mary McCray, when she was employed as a teacher by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and also served as president of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Association of Educators (CMAE), […]
