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Streetcar thoughts
Looping back around to the budget debate happening currently in Charlotte, which is increasingly focused on the city’s proposed streetcar line. When the City Manager Curt Walton’s proposed $926 million…
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Smart Growth failure and Dilworth
John Hood’s column today focus on Smart Growth. It begins: The cult commonly known as the Smart Growth movement has proven to be remarkably resilient in the face of empirical…
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Charlotte City Council rejects tax and spend plan
My my, perhaps there is some slight hope for Charlotte after all. A majority of Charlotte City Council yesterday rejected City Manager Curt Walton’s proposal to hike property taxes by…
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Protestors economic impact?
Gotta ask about the economic impact of all those protestors at the Bank of America’s annual shareholders’ meeting yesterday. I say this because whenever something gets built or might get…
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Independent audit of property revaluations?
Says here that pressure is increasing for an independent audit of Mecklenburg County’s 2011 property revaluations. Yes, let’s do that. There’s significant concern that the county got it wrong in…
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Work Harder, Proles
That is the message the Charlotte city council sent you last night. City Manager Curt Walton is shameless, Edwin Peacock clueless. Oh, and check out that Walton was getting about…
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The City Staff Charade
Charlotte City Manager Curt Walton is not worth $200,000. It follows then, that Walton is not $225,000. However, because the Charlotte city council willingly — gleefully even — pays Walton…
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Just Say No to Jason Burgess
After seeing the hammering that Tommy Tomlinson has taken for daring to suggest no rubber-stamp for Susan Burgess’ wish to have her son take her spot on Charlotte city council…
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Remedial Math for City Employees
Aha. Think we’ve found the well-spring of the nonsense surrounding the crazed intention to give city of Charlotte employees a $6.1m. raise at the very moment local unemployment stands at…
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Earth to Curt Walton
Come in, Curt. Over. You need raises to retain city staff? Really? In a county with 12 to 15 percent unemployment your workers are gonna bolt for the door unless…
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Make Mac, Curt Pay for Harassment Probe
Because City Manager Curt Walton and City Attorney Mac McCarley are directly responsible for bungling a sexual harassment issue between a city staffer and some member of city council, they…
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City Council: March Badness Poll
Since Mayor Anthony Foxx, City Manager Curt Walton, and City Attorney McCarley evidently wanted to encourage this sort of speculation, we thought we would make it easy for everyone. We’ll…