Gotta love the hed of this article from Reuters: “Obama freezes bonuses for some government workers.” Almost makes it sound like the Chosen One has heard Main Street concerns over exorbitant government pay, while private-sector unemployment rages. Turns out, not so much; Obama remains as tone-deaf as ever to the common folk. His idea of […]
N.C. Department of Transportation officials have announced that a widening of the south Charlotte parking lot known as I-485, from Johnston Road to South Boulevard, is slated to begin in 2014, a year ahead of the state’s current schedule. That should come as giddy news, except for the inconvenient fact that the widening project was […]
Not in November at the polls; not even Tuesday night by commissioners, when George Dunlap’s motion to put a quarter-cent sales tax up for referendum didn’t even draw a second, much less any debate. But that didn’t prevent Dunlap, a Democrat, from rambling for nearly 10 minutes explaining why he didn’t necessarily support a new […]
Want to land a quick and easy $900,000 to teach cocaine-fueled monkeys how to boogie down with weird dances that can be featured on YouTube? Ask the federal government for a grant and you’d probably be in luck. It worked for UNC Charlotte and Wake Forest University, two institutions of higher learning that received hundreds […]
In this case the price tag sits at upwards of $9 million, part and parcel of Charlotte’s lunatic obsession to include an affordable housing component in the redevelopment of NoDa’s Mecklenburg Mills. It started back in the early 1990s, when the city approved a $1 million loan to a developer to purchase and rehabilitate the […]
Catching up with last month’s release of the federal government’s Mid-Session Budget Review, this devastating account from The Heritage Foundation concludes the numbers are nothing less than an admission from the Obama Administration that its economic policies and the massive $862-billion stimulus package have been an abject failure. From The Foundry: When President Obama sold […]
Send us your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is Los Lobos. Enjoy.
As Congress heads out the door for its August recess, a growing number of Democrats are calling for Rep. Charles Rangel to head out for good. That would include President Barack Obama, apparently, who was zinging some none-too-subtle signals during a recent interview with CBS News that it was time for Rangel to go, according […]
The tensions and controversy embroiling a nation in debate over how to best deal with illegal immigration bubbled to the surface Friday afternoon during a press conference at GOP Headquarters in Charlotte. Republicans Jim Pendergraph, Dan Ramirez and Corey Thompson, all three running for at-large seats on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, called for […]
In a case of justice gone awry that’s all too familiar in Mecklenburg County, a violent felon out on parole was back on the streets causing more mayhem. This time it was Zavier Marquis Davis, who police shot during an armed robbery attempt early Friday morning at a Wendy’s restaurant on Park Road. The 25-year-old Davis, […]
