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When Will EpiCenter Pay $600K Tax Bill?
Coming up on a month past due, the Mecklenburg County web site still shows the $599,400 property tax bill for the EpiCenter complex, valued at $43.5m. and recipient of hundreds…
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GOP Tried to Buy Mayor's Office With Tax Dollars
Read Steve Harrison’s exhumation of the city of Charlotte’s insane dabbling with buying Eastland Mall and tell me I’m wrong. Republicans on city council manifestly thought they could buy John…
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Mumford: Bzzzt. Fail.
Pat Mumford has been put in an untenable situation with his campaign to Save The Transit Tax. Because there are no arguments in favor of our current $9 billion transit…
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Programming Note
Tune to WFAE this morning at 9am, where I’ll have another go at this transit tax thing with Pat Mumford. Should be fun.
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Burying the Lede
You won’t know it from this dispatch, but the Mecklenburg County Commission did a very important thing last night. They actually deadlocked 4-4 on Commissioner Dan Bishop’s motion to put…
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Hypocrisy from Pro-Tax Crew
Let’s get this straight. If you are deeply, deeply concerned about Charlotte property taxpayers paying for CATS’ $9 billion transit plan — and Pat Mumford says that is why we…
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Mumford: Back to Congestion
You have to feel for Pat Mumford. I think he is a decent guy who truly wants what is best for Charlotte, but he is stuck trying to defend CATS…
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Programming Note
WBT’s Pete Kaliner invited me on his Common Sense show to talk transit with city council member Pat Mumford. I think it was a good, informative exchange that leaves plenty…
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Patrick Cannon: Truth to Power
Check out the blast former Charlotte city councilman and mayor pro-tem Patrick Cannon hits the Uptown crowd with in his letter to the Observer today: The Charlotte Chamber’s pro-transit-tax entity…
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Pat Mumford is Wrong
Maybe this quote in the Charlotte Business Journal left something out, but as rendered the pro-CATS, pro-tax side of the transit debate is already off on the wrong foot. Pat…
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The Tax Hike Test
Now that it is official and the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners has hiked property taxes again, here is the test. If you own a home in Mecklenburg, go to…
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Mecklenburg and Mexico: Together Again
This trip by Mecklenburg County leaders to Mexico next month is getting strange. To recap, WBT’s Keith Larson has been having fun the past few mornings with an odd little…