Get a load of Mayor Anthony Foxx smacking down a group of boosters who showed up at city council’s Monday night dinner meeting to do a little cheerleading for the north Meck commuter rail line. “I’m growing increasingly irritated with conversation I’m hearing about whether Charlotte considers the north corridor a priority,” Foxx scolded before […]
Taking a page from the Vilma Leake campaign playbook, House Democrats up for reelection are increasingly dodging voters, scuttling public appearances, and keeping tightly guarded wraps on their events calendars. This from POLITICO: But a year after tea party protesters disrupted their town hall meetings — and with control of the House hanging in the […]
Call it a case of bad timing and even worse judgment. Shortly after receiving a report Monday night that showed quality of life ratings have slipped for seven neighborhood areas, sinking them into the dreaded “challenged” category, the city council approved giving City Manager Curt Walton a sweet pay hike. Walton scored an annual compensation package […]
Cribbing from a popular nursery rhyme, Charlotte Center City Partners is going to market, hitting taxpayers up for a cool million dollars along the way and a chance to cry wee, wee, wee, all the way home. Or at least to the former site of Reid’s Fine Foods on Seventh Street, alongside the tracks of […]
From the Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) campaign school of thought, Washington Post ultra-left columnist Eugene Robinson picks up on the growing meme liberals are already using to rationalize what many expect and polls indicate could be a tsunami of brutal losses for Democrats in November: It’s the voters’ fault; the public simply being too ignorant, […]
Just for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re a school district that has a large number of economically disadvantaged, mostly minority kids with low academic achievement levels attending schools that are badly underutilized, some of them near half-capacity; and you have a bunch of relatively affluent, mostly white kids with decent to above-average achievement […]
More than half of a million – that’s how many illegal aliens the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) says it has released, who are now fugitives: 506,232 as of Sept. 5, to be precise, according to this report from CNSNews: Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended ICE for being in the United […]
That’s the standard that must be met by the prosecution’s evidence to convict in a criminal trial, regardless of how horrendous the crime or suspected guilt of the accused. Just ask some guy named O.J. Or maybe Demeatrius Montgomery, currently on trial for the brutal slayings of police officers Jeff Shelton and Sean Clark. The […]
In the wake of a booze and debauchery scandal that ultimately claimed the resignations of the local Alcoholic Beverage Control Board’s chairman and executive director, Mecklenburg commissioners have reaffirmed a salary structure for the currently serving ABC Board members and its new chairman, to align with new state ABC rules. Meanwhile, the board’s new CEO […]
This seems logical and consistent, given that the same age bracket is fair game for the military – where they, um, you know, kind of use firearms. From the NRA’s news release yesterday: Fairfax, Va. — The NRA is challenging federal laws that prohibit law-abiding Americans eighteen through twenty years of age from legally purchasing a […]
