As in torpedoed and blown out of the water: House Speaker Thom Tillis, an alleged fiscal conservative Republican from north Mecklenburg, has twisted enough arms and cut enough backroom deals to stuff upward of $28 million back into the Senate budget to help pay for an extension of the vaunted light-rail Lynx Blue Line. The […]
Alternate Headline: Crash-and-Burn Bill of the Week. Which doesn’t necessarily make it a bad one, but I suspect Rep. Dale Folwell, a Forsyth Republican, is doomed to epic failure with proposed legislation that would require principals to keep track of illegal immigrants in their schools, for the sole purpose of fiscal analysis. The blowback from […]
Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts is actively lobbying the public to support her self-proclaimed “education budget,” which would use a rate-neutral spending plan to funnel $50 million in additional county funding to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and dramatically increase the tax burden on a majority of homeowners. The county board chairman’s e-newsletter, paid for by the Committee to […]
As county manager Harry Jones was pitching his recommended $1.4-billion budget that accelerates county spending while dramatically increasing the tax burden on a majority on homeowners, he assured that the moment was right for a so-called “re-investment” spending spree. “Although the winds of change continue to swirl around us, we find ourselves once again standing […]
GOP mayoral candidate Scott Stone is planning a visit this afternoon to the uptown transit hub, the scene of the latest gang riot to rock center city. We said earlier that Stone should push Democrat Mayor Anthony Foxx on his Katrina-flyover response to the riot; this is a good start. From Stone’s media release: Stone […]
Because our legislators apparently don’t have any other pressing matters, they’ve decided to go after tanning parlors and the under-age tanners that infiltrate them. This from WRAL: A bill pending in the General Assembly would require anyone under 18 to get a physician’s prescription to use a tanning booth. State law now allows youths age […]
Leave it to the stalwarts of objective, nonpartisan journalism over at the Associated Press to elevate, quite literally, Barack Obama to true deity status. The One, you see, can heal. The One is “the healer-in-chief.” I guess when he’s not busy playing ping-pong and quaffing Irish brew for photo opps. Emphasis added: Obama going to […]
Ever since my youngest ratted me out for dropping the F-Bomb in the car on the road trip home from an extended Memorial Day weekend, I’ve been thinking a lot about the power and importance of words. How and when they’re used. What impact they can have. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the link I […]
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is The Kinks:
Glad to see that millions of dollars in taxpayer money isn’t being wasted by the National Science Foundation, where they’re handing out grants by the fistful to study critical and pressing issues like how to ride a bike, how much housework a husband creates for a wife, and when dogs became man’s best friend. Oh, […]
