A report today on NPR noted that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham “bucked his party” by voting in favor of the nomination of SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan. His party? Republican Lindsey Graham has become the ultimate oxymoron, based on recent precedents. Add this one to the list: Graham was the only GOP member of the […]
Plastic bags are getting the boot from the barrier islands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, under a crafty piece of legislation tucked neatly into the General Assembly’s budget plan. The new law, which goes into effect Oct. 1, expands a plastic bag ban that was enacted last year and prohibited large retail stores from distributing […]
In the run-up to passing the new national healthcare law, the Obama Administration consistently tossed around assurances that no federal dollars would be used to fund abortions and promises that the same law wouldn’t restrict or limit your choice of doctor. So much for assurances and promises. CNSNews reports that Maryland is set to join […]
It started with a simple request during a recent Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners meeting, when Chairman Jennifer Roberts asked her colleagues to approve a change to the minutes from the board’s June 15 meeting, which commissioners were preparing to adopt. As originally recorded, the minutes noted that the board had approved a five-year service […]
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The City of Charlotte managed to land about $57 million in its scramble for federal stimulus money, but one request from the utilities department got flushed down the toilet. Literally. Local officials had applied to the state, which administered distribution of the federal stimulus funds, for about $750,00 to pay for a toilet replacement program. […]
Interesting sidebar to the uptown EpiCentre foreclosure and how it could directly impact your wallet when the county comes knocking next year with its property revaluation, and by extension bode ominously for the county’s continuing financial implosion. Jeff Taylor lays out how Afshin Ghazi, delinquent last year on paying EpiCentre’s $600,000 property tax bill, was […]
Certainly not any evidence of willful misconduct by Gov. Beverly Perdue’s campaign, or at least none that the lead investigator for the State Board of Elections could find. The reason? Um, that would be because Elections Board Chairman Larry Leake, a Democrat and long-time political ally of Perdue, ordered the lead investigator not to interview […]
Fresh from the uptown paper of record’s Department of Laughable Headlines: “Results unclear for Jacobsen’s UNCC work.” The results are positively clear and thoroughly damning: former Department of Social Services Director Jake Jacobsen lingered on the county’s payroll for three years, pocketing upwards of $168,000 annually, coasting until retirement while creating nothing of substantive value […]
Good thing no money to cover the cost of the General Assembly’s wild spending and bond binge on capital projects for the UNC system will be coming from tuition. Otherwise, tuition fees would be skyrocketing. Phew! Dodged a major bullet – um, nevermind. At least legislators have a long-term plan on how to pay the […]
