At least in California, where the highest-paid state employee last year was a prison surgeon who was previously fired for alleged incompetence and “has not been allowed to treat an inmate for six years because medical supervisors don’t trust his clinical skills.” He has, officials say, a history of mental illness. So now the prison […]
Attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame plummeted 39 percent in June compared to the same month one year ago, attracting a scant 17,604 visitors according to numbers released yesterday by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which operates the $200-million, city-owned facility. The drop in attendance continued a downward spiral for the racing museum: in […]
States and local governments across the country have been stuffing their coffers with record takes of revenue, aside from a slight hiccup during the height of the recession, according to the advocacy group Watchdog.org: State and local governments collected a record high of $322 billion in taxes the first quarter of this year, and tied the […]
Mecklenburg commissioners on Tuesday night approved spending $156.4 million to launch 18 capital projects, from parks and greenways to school renovations and new-school construction. But not Stumptown Elementary, a planned $15 million school that parents and education advocates in north Mecklenburg say is long overdue and desperately needed to relieve severe overcrowding at Torrence Creek […]
As far as bodacious spin and stone-crazy rhetoric goes, this has to rank near the top of any list: the latest gruesome jobs report, which pushed the real unemployment rate past 16%, is solid evidence that the $830-billion economic stimulus package … wait for it … worked exactly according to plan. So opines The One: […]
Apologies – that header should read Habitual Criminals Catch More Breaks. Because our revolving door of criminal justice isn’t spinning quit fast enough, new legislation will apparently add more grease to the hinges. It comes courtesy of HB 642, co-sponsored by Mecklenburg County’s very own Becky Carney, and is already drawing backlash from district attorneys. “I used […]
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America’s first unofficial/official Afro-Am President Bill Clinton opines that GOP efforts to restore integrity and honesty into the electoral process is, of course, a blatant form of racism. This from Politico: “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the […]
The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s two top chief executives will be performing their high-flying, tourism-attracting circus act without a safety net for the immediate future. “We wanted to let everyone know that the CRVA Board has decided that with the expiration of their contracts at the end of June, Tim Newman and Mike Crum will […]
I’ll confess I haven’t done much research on Thaddeus McCotter, but he already gets some style points for this vid from a years back:
