Huh?
Is the mayor talking about Charlotte? The city with the 12 percent unemployment rate? In the county which cannot afford to issue any more debt lest it ruin the county’s credit rating? That handed sacks of taxpayer cash to GM-damn-AC? The city that just swooned and got the vapors because a bank moved its HQ a few miles down the street?
That is getting back into bed with proven public-safety reducing red light cameras because city staff wants the money? That is cutting down oak trees to build a sidewalk no one wants — except city staff? That is building a $500m. streetcar it cannot afford to operate with money it could use for basic services instead? That has a housing authority the city council refuses to oversee and manage?
That has a police department the city council refuses to oversee and manage?
Charlotte is surely a poster child for something — just not recovery.
