There are two fundamentally different conceptions of civil society. One sees people acting with their families and neighbors to help one another. Civil society is voluntary cooperation with regard to…
I was listening to NPR’s Marketplace piece probing bans on single family residential zoning in Minneapolis and the entire state of Oregon and a familiar name came up not once,…
Per the Charlotte Observer: You’ve heard of one-story houses and two-story houses, but what’s a 1 1/2-story house? In a case that might have implications for homeowners across Mecklenburg County,…
Got a story out for Carolina Journal on a zoning dispute between Queens University, the city of Charlotte, and Myers Park residents over a new parking deck at the school.…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court and ruled against the city of Charlotte in a legal dispute over a Queens College…
Teardowns are in the news again, with the UPoR devoted 1,500 words including a sidebar to the topic over the weekend. Now, should it come as a surprise that more…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed this morning a lower-court ruling blocking Charlotte’s Myers Park Homeowners Association from challenging a new dorm, parking deck,…
What do the Democrats fundraising for former Mayor PatMcCrory know that we don’t? These aren’t fly by night types with just enough money to make them dangerous who don’t know how…
Charlotte Observer columnist Fannie Flono offers an overview of graduation rate differences among racial and ethnic subgroups, and based on this data, she concludes that “We – as a community…
North Carolina public schools in Newsweek’s list of America’s best high schools: 19. The Early College at Guilford, Greensboro 22. Penn-Griffin School for the Arts, High Point 66. North Carolina…
Very interesting. UPoR columnist Ron Stodghill evidently did not produce the desired PR result when Myers Park United Methodist Church pastor James Howell consented to an interview. Nothing really shocking…
…Larry Sprinkle is now known as Larry Shards. …Sarah Palin just shot a moose in Myers Park. …Hans Brinker was spotted in Tega Kay, headed for Davidson. …Kojo filed a…