Meck Co. Commish: Next county manager SHOULD BE ‘a non-white male’
The vice-chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners is taking some heat for recent comments to a Charlotte TV station. Kim Ratliff, a Democrat member
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Set-asides, preferences for gays in the cards for City of Charlotte?
Folks who do business with The City of Charlotte may want to sit up and take notice: Councilmember LaWana Mayfield spoke to nearly 40 LGBT community
Continue readingWhen things get HOT, Tholl Road Thom takes his marbles and goes home
This was supposed to be a great weekend for Thom Tillis. He’s presiding over the state House at a historic time for the NCGOP. The state GOP convention was in
Continue readingNCGOP needs to do more selling of the platform, less selling of the (R)
NCGOP activists have poured into Charlotte this weekend for their state convention. They’ll hear from some of the US Senate hopefuls looking to replace Kay Hagan. They’ll also choose their
Continue readingMr. Foxx Goes To Washington
Charlotte Mayor Redd Foxx is movin’ on up — just like The Jeffersons and The Clampetts. Hizzoner has been tapped by Big Barry
Continue readingCharlotte Pol: Undervaluation of Panther stadium saved team TONS in property taxes
The Charlotte City Council’s vote to give the owners of The Carolina Panthers $87 million to renovate Bank of America Stadium has raised some hackles in the grassroots. Did the
Continue readingTillis 2012: Tolls are bad. Tillis 2013: Tolls are OK.
A Mecklenberg County-based grassroots group has released some rather provocative video featuring state House speaker Thom Tillis. In the video, Tillis can be seen and heard addressing a
Continue readingState treasurer jumps into turf war over Charlotte airport
A deputy to state treasurer Janet Cowell is warning that efforts to take Charlotte Douglas International Airport away from the City of Charlotte and have it run
Continue readingHOT lanes have taxpayers hot under the collar
North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of
Continue readingEthics, Shmethics: SOMEBODY on Jones Street got some ‘splainin’ to do!
The folks over at Exile on Jones Street singled out an interesting piece of legislation that made me — just like Arsenio Hall used to do — say ‘Hmmmmm.’ Mecklenburg
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