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Meta-Politics of County Budget
Understand that Jennifer Roberts and crew are blazing a trail for how county governments are supposed to react to state government cuts in mega-state funding — with massive local tax…
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MeckCo: Fiscal End Times
Before we get to Commissioner Bill James’ take on the fiscal choices immediately ahead for Mecklenburg County — raise property taxes by one-fifth on homeowners or cut the county budget…
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Molly Griffin to Replace Parks Helms?
That is under discussion by the Mecklenburg County Commission. The former CMS board chair and long time school board member would slide into the slot vacated by the resignation of…
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ABC Board: More Departures?
WCNC’s Stuart Watson notes that Parks Helms was not alone at those high-dollar liquor industry parties — several top ABC administrators were at well. The question at hand, will the…
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Parks Helms: Victim in Recovery?
In his toweringly obtuse resignation letter, Parks Helms says he has been scapegoated for political gain by his ethical inferiors. Let’s check. How many other heads of county ABC boards…
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Parks Helms and His Massive Ego
Now that Ol’ Parks has refused the call of his fellow Mecklenburg County ABC board members to resign, it is time for the Mecklenburg County Commission to act. But wait,…
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Parks Trades Chik-Fil-A for Dom Perignon
Parks Helms is one arrogant piece of work. Accepting high-end meals from liquor salesmen as if it is his birth-right and brazenly telling state investigators that Del Frisco’s is “the…
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About Those Moonshine, Daycare Arrests
First, note that the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s website details a misdemeanor arrest for one Artis Lejune Johnson, 27, last year with the same home address as that recorded for Gwendolyn…
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Guilty Party: Tommy Apologizes Instead of Atomizing
I suppose Tommy Tomlinson bears the responsibility for choosing to direct his readers to give to a DSS operation despite Mecklenburg County’s long track record of playing fast and loose…
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Why I'll Miss Parks Helms
Only Parks could, without any evident sense of irony, compare himself to the Prophet Isaiah and take credit for Charlotte’s cultural development by virtue of sponsoring a local liquor-by-the-drink referendum…
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The Reval Question
Meck Deck readers are about a year ahead of the rest of the county in understanding that Mecklenburg County’s property tax revaluation comes at a bad time. Property values are…
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Murder Suspect was On Parole
Reginald Lamar Johnson was paroled on February 3rd after serving 23 months of a possible 37 month sentence on a felony conviction for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious…