Charlotte Observer headline reads: Charlotte spent $2 million for housing project. After 11 years, it hasn’t been built. Bad enough, right? But then the plot thickens—above-mentioned housing project is a…
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…
The Charlotte City Council is now back to discussing its capital plan, with Mayor Anthony Foxx and City Manager Curt Walton thinking city residents are underataxed. Their proposed solution to…
Every couple of months, I write the local government column for the print edition of /Carolina Journal. My latest effort is just out, and also ran over at the mothership…
And done with class. The Iredell County Commission voted unanimously against the $452 million Red Line Regional Rail project, which would have put their voters tens of millions of dollars in…
Build it and they will come, the uptown crowd is promising Iredell County commissioners. “They” being the unnamed developers who are somehow miraculously going to get the financing for development…
Did light rail destroy parts of the South Boulevard area? Did it drag the far-flung sections outside Uptown’s sphere down from merely aged but still affordable and suitable for some business to a state of…
WSOC relates that the owner of the shuttered Sonny’s BBQ store smack up against the McCrory Line on South Blvd. blames the $550m. project for destroying their business: Theresa Randall,…
Check this out. WSOC-TV relates that Romero’s — or La Ramero, listings have it both ways — was robbed Sunday. Actually the owner was followed home by three robbers and…
Or. Gloria Pace Newman. Like the United Way diva did, the CRVA honcho is taking the fall for a board rife with cronyism and insider dealing. Yes, Tim Newman is…
Late last month the Mecklenburg ABC Board closed on a deal which spent $1.4m. to buy the former site of a Sonny’s Real Pit BBQ store on South Blvd., a…
What — exactly — will Queens University do with the $5.75m. in “digital literacy” and “media literacy” cash it got from the Knight Foundation? Besides use it spread the Knight…