Superintendent Peter Gorman on Tuesday afternoon rolled out recommended cuts of about $100 million for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools that include scuttling more than half of the district’s Bright Beginnings classes, eliminating more than 1,500 jobs, including hundreds of teachers and teachers assistants and school security staff, while increasing classroom sizes and lengthening the school day for […]
UPDATE: Gee, imagine that Pete Gorman & Co. must be hitting the crack pipe extra hard these days if they think there won’t be a huge backlash for using Jan. 17 as a snow make-up day, as the district’s website currently indicates is the intent. Gotta wonder what genius in CMS’ platinum-plated PR Department gave this […]
You might recall last year when Commissioner Vilma Leake proclaimed that Mecklenburg County had its own fire department (it doesn’t) and expressed confusion over why volunteer firefighters are being paid for their volunteer service (they aren’t). Or when Leake let slip that she considered business incentive grants the equivalent of a personal slush fund to help […]
Alternate Headline: Somebody Bitch-Slap Al Gore And I don’t want to hear any arguments about how cooler temperatures and blizzards are also leading indicators of global warming, and that up is really down because of the earth’s equatorial gravity pull and rotational kinematics interacting with atmospheric compression settling*. All I know is there are like […]
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And right on cue, Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts floats warnings about how it might be impossible to avoid a tax increase as part of the reval process, given the dramatic cuts looming for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. And now along comes Mayor Anthony Foxx, with a crafty piece of politicking that pitches a plan having the city […]
Before everyone starts hyperventilating and buying into the narrative being pushed wholesale by aggressively liberal Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media that efforts to repeal Obamacare will skyrocket the national deficit, let’s take a deep breath of sanity and consider the source: a horribly flawed Congressional Budget Office scoring of the healthcare legislation, […]
Leftist politicians know they’re successful when they can get people to not only accept, but also rejoice having their rights stripped away, accompanied by the expansion of government control. Such is the case this month for Mecklenburg County, where the public policy police were in town to help the masses celebrate the one-year anniversary of […]
Faced with a multi-million-dollar budget deficit that has led to wholesale shuttering of public schools, pink-slipping hundreds of teachers, slashing funding for libraries and parks, cutting services for wounded and disabled Veterans, and reducing social services across the board, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners spent the bulk of its Tuesday night meeting approving a […]
The Queen City could’ve been a contender, if only there were fines attached to our new spy-bin recycling program, similar to what they have in the Rust Belt metropolis known as Cleveland. Maybe next year – until then, here’s an enlightening list ranking some of 2010’s busiest busybodies, from CNSNews and Michelle Malkin. Making the […]
