Seems some other local media have clued into the fact that Occupy Charlotte comes with a bill. One that’s growing bigger by the day. When we first reported last week on the cost, the tally stood at $92,224 for services related to policing the Occupy movement since it started on Oct. 1. The price tag […]
Now here’s a fine use of political capital and taxpayer resources, all in one swoop: having the CMPD round up campaign sign thieves at the behest of Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Cannon, a Democrat councilmember running for at-large reelection. “Justine Tobin a local activist and ‘Occupy Charlotte’ protester who has hosted at least one fund […]
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday helped North Carolina’s GOP clear a major hurdle in securing a potential path to electoral dominance for years to come, giving approval – so-called pre-clearance – to redistricting maps drawn earlier this year, despite howls from critics who claim the plans discriminate against minorities and violate the Voting […]
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Recall the super-sized set of pompoms Peter Gorman routinely waved for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools when he was the district’s golden boy? Seems his tune has changed since stepping down from the helm. WBT’s Jeff Sonier digs up audio of Gorman speaking at a recent education forum, where he blasted his former bosses (that’d be the school […]
For a city government that insists it’s trying to help bolster the region’s business climate and spur economic development, Queen City bureaucrats sure have a funny way of showing it. And not ha-ha funny. Charlotte’s latest attempt at subverting private property rights and killing the relative prosperity of small businesses is no laughing matter. Not […]
Giving new meaning to political royalty, the State Department, and by direct extension taxpayers, have been helping pad the sales of books penned by The One. This from the Washington Times: The State Department has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key […]
To the tune of nearly $100K, which is how much the Occupy Charlotte movement has cost local taxpayers just for policing Occupy events and ongoing encampment, as of this afternoon. “The total cost for police services in relation to Occupy Charlotte since its inception is approximately $92,224.38,” informs Capt. Jeff Estes, commander of CMPD’s Central […]
Disgruntled with the ongoing Occupy Charlotte encampment in front of the old City Hall building, Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James is looking for ways to prevent the same type of occupation from occurring on county-owned property. “I would like to know if we have a regulation for County Parks that prohibits protests from going through the […]
It’s probably a safe bet this wasn’t what Mayor Anthony Foxx was expecting when he released his first TV campaign commercial that focused on job creation: a nearly total collapse in local confidence of economic conditions in Charlotte-Mecklenburg for the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s the take-away from the latest release of the Charlotte Business […]
