Opponents of an ambitious renovation planned for Quail Corners shopping center in southeast Charlotte showed up ready for a food fight at Tuesday night’s city council zoning meeting. Crosland development wants to give its 30-year-old shopping center a multi-million-dollar facelift, but the plan hinges on an expansion to include a drive-thru fast-food restaurant that company […]
I’m almost reluctant to post this one, fearing, of course, that it could inspire somebody from local government to go on a social justice jag and conclude that to be world class inclusive demands Charlotte-Mecklenburg follow suite. This from FoxNews.com: “Is Berkeley Ready to Pay for Sex-Change Operations?” Apparently, it’s not a rhetorical question and […]
The drug wars in Mexico continue to claim lives at an alarming rate, with hundreds of slayings taking place within a stone’s throw of US border states. How vicious and widespread has the mayhem become? A recent data dump from the Mexican government paints a stark picture, as detailed here by The Guardian UK. The […]
In traffic and criminal citations, that is, which were issued over the holiday’s “Booze It and Lost It” campaign. That’s no real surprise, what with greater Char-Meck being the state’s most populous area and all; stands to reason we’d have the largest number of citations. Another convenient explanation, though, might come down to straight economics, […]
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is classic Willie and Merle, from House Guest DJ Adam Love. Enjoy.
You might have missed this buried in all the talk about a call to returned civility in political discourse, but apparently the country’s going broke, has this little debt problem, and its Triple-A credit rating is in jeopardy – again – of being downgraded. This from The WSJ: Moody’s Investors Service said in a report […]
Hats off to the folks at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, who were in court this week battling corporate bribes, er, tax incentives and trying to clean up the lingering stench left by disgraced former House Speaker Jim Black. The NCICL presented oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the NC Court of Appeals, […]
No, this doesn’t have anything to do with the left smearing Sarah Palin or trying to link the Tea Party to the tragedy in Tucson; this is actual, for-real trash talk – as in garbage. If yours is starting to stack up higher than Al Gore’s carbon footprint, hang in there, help is on the […]
This is definitely not the kind of news that Mayor Anthony Foxx and the uptown crowd clawing desperately to land the DNC in Charlotte want floating around the country. It was strange and disturbing enough when reports first surfaced that Delvonte Tisdale had fallen to his death from an airplane over Boston, after breaching security […]
What happens when city and county governments shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in lucrative salaries and bonuses to justify luring the supposedly “best and brightest” away from the private sector? Bad things happen. Take three high-profile cases from Charlotte’s entertainment circus as prime examples: the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Bojangles’ Coliseum, and Ovens […]
