Upset with the Obama Administration and the Democrat Party dragging feet on so-called immigration reform, Latino political leaders are contemplating a move to go rouge and they’re taking a page, not to mention a tip-of-the-hat moniker, from the Tea Party’s playbook. This from the Daily Caller: The idea, born of frustration over the party’s inaction […]
The Charlotte-area unemployment rate shrank slightly in October, to 10.2 percent from 10.6 percent the previous month, while Mecklenburg County’s unemployment dipped to 9.8 percent from 9.9 percent, according to numbers released today by the NC Employment Security Commission. That sounds like good news until you dig into the numbers, at which point we turn […]
Sanity comes close, but ultimately falls short, in Johnston County, where school officials are now requiring notes from parents if they don’t want their children to use lip balm, hand sanitizer or sunscreen while at school. As opposed to school officials’ original plan to outlaw lip balm from campuses unless parents sent notes stating their […]
With accusations that racism and financial discrimination were driving forces behind the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education’s decision to close predominately high poverty and minority schools on the city’s West side still stinging the community, flying under the radar has been the likely prospect that schools along the same educational corridor stand to reap millions of […]
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is Thunderclap Newman, from guest House DJ Kristina Love. Enjoy.
Is the Queen City’s vaunted Lynx light-rail line the next stop for virtual stripsearch scanners and junk-groping patdowns? Could be, from the sounds of Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano. This from The Hill: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists […]
In a wholly predictable response to her political mentor’s plea of ‘I’m guilty, but not guilty like that” today, Gov. Beverly Perdue is urging folks (like, I don’t know, the GOP majority that just won control of the General Assembly) to leave the past in the past and focus on moving North Carolina forward. She […]
The Charlotte City Council is diving headfirst into the microcredit lending pool, unanimously voting this week to shell out up to $230,000 in taxpayer money to help establish a Grameen America Bank in the Queen City. Mecklenburg County officials are also being tapped to contribute a matching $230,000, but have not yet voted on the […]
The former governor gets a bad joke of a fine; the citizens of North Carolina get a giant one up the – This from WRAL: Former Gov. Mike Easley pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single campaign finance violation as part of a deal to end long-running state and federal investigations into his dealings with friends […]
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes and we’ll work them into the mix. First up tonight, getting ramped with some Flogging Molly, submitted by House Guest DJ Matthew Ridenhour: Followed by some clowning around with Dwight Yoakam, submitted by House Guest DJ Adam Love: And a little Jordan Page, submitted by guest […]
