Mecklenburg County’s jobless numbers budged slightly in August, dropping the unemployment rate to 10.5 percent from July’s 10.8 percent, with the county totaling 413,945 jobs compared to the previous month’s 411,416. The incremental good news is tempered, though, when compared to earlier in the year, when Mecklenburg totaled just shy of 415,000 jobs with an […]
What could possibly go wrong with this, big government tied into big business with a direct link to citizens’ primary source of energy? That’s essentially the concept lurking behind the new “Envision: Charlotte” initiative, designed to implement a so-called smart grid uptown, with a target to cut energy use by 20 percent in about 60 […]
Prosecutors in the Demetrius Montgomery case are slowly laying the bricks to create a path around the reasonable doubt standard and, they hope, straight to a life sentence for the 2007 slayings of police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. The latest: testimony that gunshot residue was present on Montgomery’s palms; an empty holster and […]
There are people who seriously believe that Martin Sheen was one of this country’s greatest presidents, so this really shouldn’t surprise. Stephen Colbert is a great comedian and a good actor; the two key words there being ‘comedian’ and ‘actor.’ His parody of bloviator-in-chief Bill O’Reilly is as spot on as having him testify before a […]
Who could’ve seen this coming, huh? Obamacare running into problems trying to manipulate the free market. Imagine that. This from The Washington Post: Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans […]
Of the press, that is. Beverly Perdue’s office earlier this year snagged former Charlotte Observer political reporter Mark Johnson to become the governor’s deputy press secretary. Now it’s Raleigh News & Observer reporter Benjamin Niolet, who has been hired away from his beat to become the director of new media for the governor’s office. Gordon […]
The Democrat majority on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday night voted to reaffirm the county’s existing “Buy American” policy, which was originally adopted in 1985 and gives preference in purchasing American-made supplies except when they would cost more than the lowest qualified bidder or when the quality of material doesn’t meet desired […]
They say that timing is everything in comedy. The same rule apparently applies in politics, where the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners last night set a public hearing for Nov. 3 to discuss the looming property revaluation. For those keeping track at home, that would be one day after those same commissioners appear on the […]
From West Charlotte and Independence to North Meck and the newly opened Hough High, accused felons are roaming the halls of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. According to district officials, 142 students currently enrolled in CMS have been charged with a variety of felony crimes, totaling a combined 319 charges (find defense attorneys to help you to clear […]
Nearly $3 million in July – $2.65 million, to be more precise – according to Department of Social Services Director Mary Wilson, via a memo she provided to county commissioners in response to prompting from Republican Commissioner Bill James. We’ll have much more on this, but suffice now with the following e-mail blast James sent […]
