Saturday Night House Party
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Queen City Streetcar 2025
The joys of high-density zoning mixed with rail transit. And, oh, I see we’re getting that uptown faux farmers market. Wonderful. Should fix right into the mix. Sure, the vid below is a stretch, but just sayin’ – Central Ave. 2025?
Bad Loans Back In Vogue
I think it was Albert Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. Fresh off a market crash triggered in large part by government-pushed home lending to people who couldn’t afford it, we appear poised for a renewed round of government-pushed home lending to people who can’t […]
Uptown Paper Errors In Email Edits
Interesting, but not entirely surprising, how the uptown paper chose to parse snippets of an e-mail exchange between Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James and Board of Education member Trent Merchant. Even more interesting is the perspective pitched by former Mecklenburg Commissioner Dan Bishop, which wasn’t included in the uptown paper’s account. Bishop was copied on the […]
Bright Bulbs In South Carolina
While our control freak federal government has declared the traditional incandescent light bulb verboten, mandating instead that we begin flipping the switch using only the screwy, weird-looking compact florescent variety, legislatures from South of the Border are keeping a glimmer of sanity alive. This from Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry: Fed up with the federal government’s […]
Prince Peter’s Performance Pay Survives Attempted Coup; CMS Board Seeks $50 Million Bump
With a divisive 5-4 vote the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a $1.17-billion budget plan that hopes to suck $352 million from county coffers, a $50 million increase from the school system’s current take. And that was the easy vote. The battle royal came when a different five-member majority fended off an […]
It’s Official: Reval + Revenue Neutral = Tax Hike
Nearly half of Mecklenburg homeowners, about 158,000 households, would be in line for a tax hike under the county’s proposed revenue-neutral budget plan, according to the latest numbers from the county’s budget department. Rolling with a revenue-neutral plan would dip the county property tax rate from 83.87-cents to 78.83-cents per $100 assessed value, and still […]
Cashing In On Charlotte’s Kid Labor Market
I’m sure it’s wholly coincidental that Mayor Anthony Foxx gets his Democrat-controlled city council to approve a renewed push for an amped-up jobs program for youths during the same week GOP mayoral hopeful Scott Stone officially rolls out his campaign with a signature platform of job creation and hammering Foxx for failing to adequately address […]
Romneycare Crisis
Timing is everything in comedy and politics (some would argue the two are one in the same), and it couldn’t get much worse for Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor and current wannabe presidential candidate is scheduled this week to deliver a healthcare speech to deflect criticism of his signature Romneycare legislation that requires nearly […]
CMS Gunslingers
Three guns confiscated in two days at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, as the school board preps for tonight’s ask of an additional $55 million in county funding. Yesterday it was a student attempting to hijack a school bus, an event that yielded eight counts of kidnapping and two counts of possession of a weapon on school grounds. […]
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