UNC-TV has backed itself into a tenuous position that could have devastating impact for journalists across the state – at least the ones who work for a public broadcasting system and, by extension, are considered state employees. It started when the General Assembly’s Senate Judiciary 2 Committee issued subpoenas to UNC-TV and two of its […]
If a qualifier of good art is irony, Mecklenburg County received a wicked return on investment. Among myriad construction projects that have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for public art are two libraries currently operating on limited days and reduced hours because of budget cuts. Two bronze tree sculptures, with a price […]
And guess who’s paying for it. In case there wasn’t enough evidence that the federal government has completely gone off the rails of fiscal sanity, let’s toss spending nearly a half-million dollars to study the effects of teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts into the mix. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of […]
Not content with throwing around copious amounts of cash in the form of so-called business investment grants to lure brick-and-mortar companies to North Carolina, legislators have upped the ante for Hollywood. The General Assembly approved a bill this year that turbo-charges tax breaks for the film industry, skyrocketing the amount of money available to be […]
Could somebody explain to me again why we’re spending $37 million on a 1.5-mile leg of streetcar – $12 million of which is local money that could be spent on, I don’t know, little things like fixing the city’s decaying infrastructure.
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First a federal appeals court slapped down the Obama’s Administration misguided attempt to enforce a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, then King James snubbed Obama’s old Chicago stomping grounds in favor of South Beach and the Heat. Telling reactions to both developments: In LeBron James’ case, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert […]
It’s the place where pipedreams bloom and lollipops and money grow on trees, which is a good thing as nobody has a clue where dollar-one is going to be found to pay this $1.5-million tab. That’s the annual operating cost to run the initial leg of Charlotte’s vaunted streetcar, all 1.5 miles of it, chugging […]
As the uptown lunch bunch goes all-in supporting Charlotte’s bid to land the 2012 Democratic National Convention, they might want to consider the full picture of what the $45 million it’ll cost to bring it to the Queen City is buying. From the 2008 DNC in Denver:
And maybe not just in the alphabet. South Carolina is already headed down a track to approve an illegal-immigration law that closely mirrors the one that has landed Arizona in a legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice. A state Senate bill that would empower local police to check the immigration status of anyone […]
