Leave it to a pretentious prince with four mansions to lecture American commoners about how our insatiable appetite for beef, of all things, is on course to reap ruin on the environment and destroy the world. This from The Telegraph UK: America’s appetite for beef is jeopardising the world’s water supply, the Prince of Wales […]
A government-managed agency in partnership with a boatload of other government directed and subsidized agencies has produced a so-called community consensus that shows most folks wouldn’t mind paying more in taxes if it means – wait for it – more money for more government services. What a shocker. As forewarned earlier this year, the astroturf […]
Pete Kaliner takes his new website out for a test drive with a review of City Manager Curt Walton’s freshly released recommended budget. The highlights: a $1.67-billion total spending plan that sweeps up about $16 million through a revenue neutral pitch, after revaluation, dipping the existing city property tax hit of 45.86-cents by 2-cents per […]
The Department of Homeland Security apparently wants everybody to feel at home in America, including those who are here illegally. Case in point: last year the DHS halted the deportation of more than 34,000 illegal aliens. This from Judicial Watch: In a perplexing development ignored by the mainstream media, the Obama Administration suspended tens of […]
In this case, it consists of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority spreading around thousands of dollars in gifts and perks to Charlotte’s uptown lunch bunch crowd and their enablers and benefactors to further the agenda and interests of the same, at the expense of the rest of us mere mortals, the unwashed masses. This comes […]
Send us a youtube clip of your favorites tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. This is Warren Zevon – a triple shot for good measure:
Lifeguards pulling down $210K a year, along with million-dollar pensions and full healthcare benefits after retiring at 50? Sure, why not? Toss in an annual sunscreen allowance for good measure. This from AFP California:
It’s still pretty much in shambles, despite the recently delivered double-tap to Osama. Recall that five of the 9-11 hijackers were in the United States on overstayed visas and read with a shudder the latest revelation from within the bowels of the Department of Homeland Security. This from Reuters: U.S. authorities are facing a huge […]
A posh fundraiser for Mayor Anthony Foxx reportedly snagged a cool $140,000 this week, while the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners managed to save a tepid $137,000 by approving the consolidation of some library services. Super. The consolidation plan will roll the library system’s human resources, technology, and capital project management departments under the umbrella […]
The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s board of directors has handpicked PricewaterhouseCoopers to serve as an “independent advisor in support of the Board’s own internal audit, review and assessment of the CRVA’s operating policies and procedures and organizational structure,” according to a memo sent to Mayor Anthony Foxx and Charlotte City Council. Say what? How does […]
