Less than three days into his tenure as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Harold Cogdell is already neck deep in serious allegations of pay-to-play politics for his role in landing copious amounts of tax dollars for a local non-profit agency that subsequently hired him as its attorney. Some of the more notorious […]
My byline at PunditHouse is going to be on hiatus for the immediate future, as I take time to deal with a family situation. We learned last week that my sister has a cancerous tumor on an otherwise healthy liver – one of those inexplicable roundhouse kicks that life can deliver without warning. When it […]
It was almost a year ago when Mecklenburg Commissioner Harold Cogdell seemed poised to pull off a palace coup, challenging fellow Democrat Jennifer Roberts for the chairmanship of the board of commissioners she had held for the last two terms. Aligned with the board’s four Republican minority members, Cogdell appeared to have the votes needed […]
In a lawful society it’s considered bad form, dare I say criminal, to take a person’s money by force or deception for your own gain. Somehow that basic tenet has been subverted in what passes today for capitalism, but should more accurately and honestly be considered corporate gangsterism. One of the more insidious recent examples comes […]
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The Occupy Wall Street movement had billed it as a Day of Action, marking the two-month anniversary of the movement, but it turned into a day of disgust and disgrace. Honestly, what possible positive argument can be made for terrorizing schoolchildren as a means of legitimate protest? They were caught in the middle of madness. […]
In the history of criminal enterprises, when all is said and done, what are the chances of the Federal Reserve going down as the largest, most diabolical Ponzi scheme perpetrated wholesale on the American public? I’d say it goes neck-and-neck with Social Security. This from CNSNews: At the close of business on Tuesday, the debt […]
Jennifer Roberts announced this week that she won’t seek another term on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, which she joined in 2004 and has held sway over as chairman for the last four years, a tenure that has spanned massive government growth and outrageous spending tempered only by a recent and far too late […]
Just when it looked like Newt Gingrich was gaining ground in the GOP’s perpetual presidential debate sweepstakes, surging in several polls to top-tier contender status, comes this from Bloomberg news: Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar […]
Board of Education member Kaye McGarry is accusing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials and her own board colleagues of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about mounting security threats and violence in schools that is putting students at risk. McGarry last month had requested a report on how significant shifts in student populations have impacted nearly […]
