Back In Black
Inveterate liar, thief, drug addict and alcoholic Jim Black is getting back into the eye doc biz. What could possibly go wrong.
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Repent! For Being White
That’s the message floating down from Canada, where the Albert Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recently unveiled its new taxpayer-funded “Racism Free Edmonton” campaign. According to the group’s logic, the best way to solve the problem of racism is for white people to accuse themselves of being racists, acknowledge their “white privilege,” and maybe start displaying […]
France Family Hall Of Fiscal Folly
Let’s see. How, oh how, could we possibly trim the projected $1.3 million shortfall over at the uptown racing museum? Let’s ask the three cheerleading chieftains supposedly in charge of driving tourism in the greater CharMeck region for some answers. Surely, with their combined salaries that approach nearly, well, what do you know, nearly $1 […]
Thank You
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Chris Christie Cap
Faced with a budget crisis in New Jersey that’s impacting services across the board, including education, Republican Gov. Chris Christie pushed through a bill that would cap the salaries of school administrators based on the number of students in a district. The bill would also cut the salaries of administrators who make more than the […]
Taking A Bite Out Of CMS; 11 Schools To Close Next Year
Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Board of Education meeting Tuesday night to consider closing nearly a dozen schools and bring wholesale upheaval to dozens more started and ended with heated protests, accusations of racism, and often exasperated board members struggling with weighty decisions that all agreed provided no pleasant options. When the dust had settled, after a meeting that […]
Council Pans New Housing Policy; Foxx Pushes For Inclusionary Zoning
A new set of rules to determine where subsidized housing can be built in Charlotte got a cold shoulder Monday night from the city council, which fretted that a proposed locational policy doesn’t go far enough to help disperse affordable housing throughout the city and would still leave some of Charlotte’s most fragile neighborhoods vulnerable […]
Prescient Neanderthals
City officials are again conceding, this time in writing, what all us ignorant cavemen knew way back during the half-cent sales tax repeal vote: Charlotte’s transit system is wholly unsustainable. So naturally, the braintrust behind the plan wants “new long term revenue sources for transit.” That’s government-speak for new taxes and/or fees and city officials […]
BAC Bailout: Round Two?
Jonathan Weil, with Bloomberg News, seems to think so, or at least that Bank of America is near slipping back into the financial graveyard after reaping accolades for repaying its its first round of TARP loot. Weil, in fact, isn’t ruling out another bailout ask looming on the horizon, given BAC’s shrinking stock price and […]
The Coconut Conspiracy UPDATE: $200M of Crazy
Pentagon dismisses India armada claim as “absolutely absurd” and “comical.” White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs shoots down $200M per day price tag. Oh that whacky Indian media. This from ABC News: Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell did not shy away from dismissing reports that appeared in Indian media outlets, such as the Press Trust of […]
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