County commissioners last week approved the officially adopted budget for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, but not without some unexpected squabbling that started and ended with Commissioner Vilma Leake. Leake, a Democrat, was irked that CMS officials and her own board colleagues have never attended a meeting of an ad hoc committee, chaired by Leake, designed to facilitate […]
The same stone-broke board of education that insists it must close schools because the district simply has no money somehow found enough to award more than $1 million in contract extensions to top executives Tuesday night, hours before the board called in armed police to clear the government center’s meeting chamber of audience members protesting […]
Turns out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t quite delivered on the promise she made in 2007, when she vowed that under her fiscal watch there would be “no new deficit spending.” Of course, she only missed it by $5 trillion, or so. This from CNS News: Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and […]
Alternate Headline: Making Stuff Up As They Go Along. Seriously, how else to explain the eleventh-hour, complete about-face Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is pulling with the latest revision to its ongoing Case for Continuous Upheaval? Schools Chief Peter Gorman and top CMS staff now say they plan to close Harding High School, instead of Waddell. The details […]
The whole frickin’ thing; all 570 rooms, along with its entire banquette hall and restaurant, plus hundreds of more rooms at other luxury hotels throughout Mumbai, to better accommodate the enormous entourage and security detail that will be accompanying The Chosen One on his trip to India next month. This from The Times of India: […]
A slate of great requests for this week’s House Party, leading off with one from Mary Ann Christian: a dedication going out to Moe Tucker, former Velvet Underground drummer, for her Tea Party activism, as reported here (a great read, worth your time). Followed up by The Mavericks, submitted by House Guest DJ Adam Love: […]
A distinct possibility if what’s unfolding in Washington state ever makes its way to James’ county commission district in suburban south Mecklenburg. It’s apparently become acceptable and standard practice these days in the ultra-left state of Washington to have illegal aliens canvassing neighborhoods for votes to support liberal Democrat candidates. This from CNSNews: When Maria […]
Massive federal spending by Democrats has helped save thousands of public-sector jobs and the GovCo bureaucrats who reaped the benefit don’t want the good times to end. The solution: Look for the union label, and use what is essentially taxpayer money to save their own skins. This from The WSJ: The American Federation of State, […]
Denial, that is, which seems to be running deep and wide these days, as evidenced by the giddy and delusional optimism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisting that Democrats are better positioned than Republicans with voters coming down the home stretch. Her response to Charlie Rose’s reality-based observation that “95 House races are in play, […]
Superintendent Peter Gorman could have used part or all of a $250,000 grant he received earlier this year, from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, to help plug a funding gap for school athletics, or to buy some new books for kids, or training for teachers, or – heck, just about anything. The grant money, which was […]
