In what has become a veritable county government tradition, a task force that was created to find ways to save money needs more money. This time around, it’s The Future of the Library Task Force, which was formed, ostensibly, to find ways that a system rocked by budget cuts this year could operate more efficiently […]
Got this handy-dandy new vote tracker in an email yesterday from the good folks at the Civitas Institute. It’s a nifty way to keep pace with running totals on a daily basis, for anybody without anything better to do like, I don’t know, watching the Rangers clobber the Yankees. According to the Civitas tracker, we […]
This just in from the Fact is Stranger than Fiction Department: President Barack Obama will appear on an episode of the popular “Mythbusters” television show, scheduled to be aired Dec. 8 on the Discovery Channel. The episode, which has already been taped, has The Chosen One challenging the validity of the tale of Greek scientist […]
Just for the record, and because I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else, Turning Point Academy, the home of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ exploding pen, is the friendlier, PR-manufactured moniker for what used to be called Derita Alternative, a facility for students that have run into serious discipline problems at other schools. That said, Turning Point Academy […]
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Transit tax revenue is on the decline, but the good folks at Charlotte Area Transit System are still sitting pretty, even as they hike bus fares. Sitting better than pretty, actually, flush with nearly $1 million worth of new office furniture. The city council this week approved an $897,173 contract for the purchase and installation […]
Corey Thompson, by his own admission, is a political novice. But that hasn’t stopped the young gun Republican from drawing down and taking dead aim at Democrat incumbent Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts. Thompson, who is running for an at-large seat on the county board, this week called for Roberts to reprimand her Democrat cohorts for […]
Or Darkness In The Land of the Midnight Sun: A newly released Rasmussen Reports poll shows Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign pulling her within one point of Joe Miller, the upstart, Tea Party-backed candidate who knocked off the entrenched incumbent in Alaska’s GOP primary: A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Alaska shows […]
This is low-down disgraceful, even for an activist liberal hack like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who managed to turn the all-round joyous rescue of 33 Chilean miners into an opportunity to lob cheap political shots at the Tea Party and conservatives. NewsBusters snags the insultingly offensive claims from Matthews’ segment with guest Richard Trumka, president of […]
Hundreds of angry parents turned out for Tuesday night’s school board meeting, which devolved into a chaotic protest of the district’s plans to close nearly a dozen schools and ended with the arrest of the local NAACP president and a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher. The main source of frustration for many parents and community leaders from […]
