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How Much Will Marcus Jackson Cost City?
And by the city of Charlotte, I mean city taxpayers. I am gonna take a wild guess and $100,000 plus attorney’s fees for, oh, call it $150K — plus whatever…
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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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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…
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Foxx in the Hen House?
So it was exactly as we surmised: Mayor Anthony Foxx sent his don’t-sexually-harass-the-help email at the behest of City Manager Curt Walton and City Attorney Mac McCarley — almost certainly…
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City Council: Who is the Sexual Harasser?
Since Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has declared that a member of the Charlotte city council sexually harassed a city employee — the obvious question is — who did it? I…
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Kim Thomas: Justice Denied?
Been parsing the official and unofficial chatter since WBT’s Tara Servatius broke word this afternoon that CMPD was looking at new DNA evidence in the Kim Thomas murder case from…
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City Council: Last Chance for Sanity on Jackson Affair
OK. It is pretty simple now. Thanks to WFAE getting the details on the mysterious incident involving Marcus Jackson and his estranged wife in Mint Hill, Charlotte city council can…
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Mac McCarley, Meet Nick Danger
I cannot start to make this up. A former Mike Easley aide testifies that the former governor kept a secret email address under “Nick Danger” in order to skirt the…
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Duh: City Sued by Jackson's Alleged Victims
Add this one to the list of things we told you would happen. A press conference is coming up at 2pm where we’ll learn more about the lawsuit, but WCNC…
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City Attorney: Let Them Eat Cake
Take a look at City Attorney Mac McCarley’s response to concerns that city-bought TV profiles of current council members constitute a de facto campaign contribution to candidates for political office.…
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Uh, About Those Non-Campaign Related City Produced TV Spots
City Councilman John Lassiter thinks the spots in question are so non-campaign related he put his City Source profile on his…Lassiter for Mayor web site. Not sure what this says…