You have to admire the audacity of Robert Bush and the Arts and Science Council (ASC) for their campaign to increase the sales tax in Mecklenburg County by a quarter-cent.…
You can read the Charlotte Observer article on the ‘troubled’ Cross Charlotte Trail or you just look at the chart below–which I believe is self-explanatory. The Uptown Paper of Record…
Outraged…..embarrassed…disappointed. Charlotte Observer reports the city’s Cross Charlotte Trail—a 26-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail from Pineville to UNC Charlotte—has a $77 million funding gap: Now, the plan’s future is murky,…
On Tuesday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (CMS) school board passed the “Municipal Concerns Act of 2018.” It is a stunningly brazen document. As Jim Morrill of the Charlotte Observer explains, What the…
Macy’s to close at Carolina Place Mall in the Charlotte suburb of Pineville. The store opened at the mall in 1993.
Sears Holdings has announced that it’s closing 68 Kmarts and 10 Sears stores. Among the casualties are five Kmarts in North Carolina: Brevard, Gastonia, Lumberton, Pineville, and Rocky Mount. Another…
From the Charlotte Observer: After 27 years of construction, the last piece of Charlotte’s outerbelt will be finished and open for traffic on Friday, June 5, the N.C. Department of…
By The Numbers, the annual cost of local of local government report that I compile, has just been release. And Charlotte again has the hist combined cost of local government…
RALEIGH — Eight of North Carolina’s largest cities now have annual local tax-and-fee burdens topping $2,000 per person. Charlotte regains its No. 1 statewide ranking among the largest cities, with…
RALEIGH — After a one-year dip, Charlotte regains the top spot on the John Locke Foundation’s annual list of larger N.C. cities with the highest local government costs per person.…
View in your browser. North Carolina is proposing a special 5 cents per milliliter tax on the liquid used in electronic cigarettes. This is over and above state and local…
Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Mooresville has toppled Charlotte from the top spot on the John Locke Foundation’s annual…