Charlotte Observer headline reads: City Council approves $50 million Silver Line contract. Here’s what happens next. Actually my headline is more accurate, because–based on the Observer’s article—no one really knows…
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,…
By a narrow 6-5 vote, the Charlotte City Council supported the bid to bring the 2020 Republican National Convention to the Queen City. Four Democrats—Larken Egleston,Julie Eiselt, Greg Phipps and…
By a 10-0 vote–with council member Braxton winston absent—the Charlotte City Council approved an ambitious plan to reduce carbon emissions by 2050. I honestly have to give the liberal Uptown…
It may not have been his intention, but Jim Morrill’s squib on Tariq Bokhari’s new civic group makes the effort sound insincere. Yes, the initial and current iteration of the…
John Lassiter pauses Election Day campaigning to grip-and-grin at the unveiling of Uptown’s new Disco Chicken. Pat McCrory is off shilling for trains in Tampa but hurries back in time…
I had a couple flashbacks to 1994 while chatting with Uptown paper record political reporter Jim Morrill about Tuesday’s GOP primary results. Like CNN producers and many Beltway pundits reacting…
The following is Republican city council at-large candidate Tariq Bokhari’s response to the candidate survey. I would just like to preface my answers to these VERY SPECIFIC questions below (thanks…
Erik Spanberg over at the CBJ notes there is already talk amongst some members of the Charlotte city council of going back and “reconsidering” the $8m. in General Fund revenue…
All: Congratulations. You are in the stretch run of very time consuming and — for some — expensive process. Your willingness to serve your community is commendable. But a final…