This from Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, posted on his Facebook page: Disclosure: County has been called on the carpet for its lack of management of a HUD grant totalling (sic) $1.3 million. The result of this is that the sub-contractor of this program has been terminated (or in process of termination). I understand that the […]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson recently became the latest high-profile figure to receive a hearty Detroit welcome to the Motor City, and it came with an ironic twist. This from The Michigan View: Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit. Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials have released a list of 32 schools that could face major changes next year, from reconfigured student-assignment boundaries to shutting down individual schools. Or not. School officials stress the list is only preliminary, crafted around and aligned with the school board’s newly concocted set of so-called guiding principles that covers the likes […]
Lee Ann Patton has been trying to track down Vilma Leake. Patton, the Republican candidate who faces Leake in November’s election for the District 2 seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, needs to contact her Democrat opponent about participating in the League of Women Voters’ debate. If Leake can’t be contacted and convinced […]
The so-called Summer of Recovery continues to depress. The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the national unemployment rate increased to 9.6% for August, up from July’s 9.5%, while the economy shed another 54,000 jobs. Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 […]
What’s the difference between Osama bin Laden, the terrorist, and Mick Mulvaney, the hard-charging conservative challenging entrenched incumbent Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.)? Not much, according to Spratt’s spiel. This from a profile of the two candidates in Columbia’s Free-Times: “If Osama bin Laden ran in this district as a Republican, he would get 38 to […]
Um, about that whole climate change thing and how mankind is doomed to early extinction? Nevermind. Sorry about the confusion; totally our bad. This from the UK Express: THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel […]
Let’s see. Mayor Anthony Foxx is tapped to chair the new Small Business Task Force of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and – presto! – we’re hit with a nicely dovetailed op-ed piece of pure hyperbole from U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in the uptown paper of record. Coincidence, I’m sure. Or maybe it has […]
This time it’s police officer Marvin Bell, who has been charged with DWI, the latest in a string of officer-related incidents and arrests under the command of Chief Rodney Monroe. Meanwhile, an independent audit team led by former Superior Court Judge Shirley Fulton, and comprised of retired internal affairs supervisors and investigators, will begin examining about […]
RINO, that is. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski last night conceded that state’s Republican Party primary election to Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed challenger Joe Miller, who moves on to face Democrat Scott McAdams in November’s general election. The Anchorage Daily News runs down how it unfolded last night in the Land of the Midnight Sun: “We […]
