annual college football bowl game played in Charlotte, NC
Headlines currently on the Charlotte Observer’s website: • 2016: Year of the Crane. 2017: Year of the Ribbon-cutting (and more cranes) • State population map: NC among fastest-growing states •…
46,423, with the wet weather obviously killing the walk-up crowd. That’s up only a hair from the attendance in 2013 (45,211 for Cincinnati – UNC) and 2014 (45,671 for Georgia…
Odd but true: N.C. State draws well in Charlotte. The Wolfpack has twice previously — 2005 and 2011 — played in the bowl game of ever changing name that’s played…
Subject to expanded police powers to search people? Got me. As the Charlotte Observer reports, what qualifies is apparently rather random. ACC football championship game: No. Belk Bowl: No. New…
The economic development business is somewhat detached from reality. OK, maybe a lot detached from reality. The latest case in point is city and the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s attempt…
Hmmm. Gotta do better than that — more Charlotte. The Banker Bowl presented — and dressed — by Belk? The Tasseled-Loafer Bowl? The Queen City Bowl presented by Belk (Queen…
Let’s get this straight. The local “economic impact” of today’s Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte is supposed to be some $20m., down from last year’s $25m. number. Last year’s…
It is great to see the local Knight Ridder outlet editorializing on something without calling for more government spending, but knocking down the idea of a football program at UNCC…
Over at JLF-Charlotte, Jeff Taylor ponders the lessons evident in the bad planning for bus routes to and from the Continental Tire Bowl.
Some public officials want to throw taxpayer dollars into subsidizing college football?s Charlotte tire bowl. Over at JLF-Charlotte, Jeff Taylor points out the worn tread and questionable traction of this…