In other news, CMS boosters say CMS is awesome. Really, what did we expect a study of Mecklenburg County parks, commissioned by the county parks and recreation department and conducted by a conservation group that supports parks, to say? The only outcome more certain and preordained than the results of the Trust for Public Land’s […]
A 16-year-old Air Force JROTC student apparently eludes airport security at Charlotte-Douglas International, climbs into the wheel well of a US Airways jet bound for Boston, and plummets to his death from the sky over that city. A Massachusetts prosecutor investigating the case calls it a “major breach of security,” while Charlotte airport director Jerry […]
A federal judge in Virginia delivered a blow today to the Obama Administration’s new healthcare law, ruling that one of its major components – a requirement for people to purchase healthcare – is unconstitutional. This from FOX News: Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday for the state’s claim that the requirement for people to purchase […]
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And not just from Dems outraged over the president’s so-called compromise on a tax deal. No, the real feat apparently has been The One’s superhuman powers to resist the temptation of lighting up. This from CBS News: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged President Obama’s smoking habit Thursday — but said the president has […]
WBTV is reporting that former CMPD Detective Arvin Fant – he of the plagiarized, lost and destroyed notes that deep-sixed the death penalty in the trial of convicted cop-killer Demeatrius Montgomery – has been suspended without pay, pending a termination hearing before the Civil Service Board. Meanwhile, former rouge cop Marcus Jackson is due in […]
More bombings, violence and mayhem, that is; according to radical Islamoterrorist Anjem Choudary. This from MSNBC, where Choudary is at one point described as “mild-mannered”: LONDON — It is a Sunday night in London’s East End and the self-styled “most hated man in Britain” is holding court, reveling in his vision of a Taliban victory over […]
Bracing for the looming budget season, library leaders have already begun rolling out dire scenarios that warn of multiple branch closings and layoffs if the county doesn’t come off the hip with at least flat funding. This from a library system that saw its budget reduced by $10 million this year, but still received $21 […]
Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat, managed to retain her seat Monday night as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, sidestepping a brewing coup that could have stripped her of the title she’s held for the last four years and led, instead, to a bipartisan leadership-sharing role with a former sheriff and Democrat-turned-Republican, Jim Pendergraph, […]
You have to absolutely appreciate the Machiavellian timing on the release of a task force report that finds the city’s public safety plan “financially unsustainable without large budget cuts or increased taxes,” coming as it does well after elected officials, city government and the uptown media and power structure successfully convinced voters that we could […]
