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Saddled with huge bags of debt that have county officials violating their own spending policies, which in turn has put increasing pressure on Mecklenburg County's coveted Triple A bond rating, commissioners on Wednesday night approved a new debt policy that will allow the county to borrow and spend even more copious amounts of money. |
An overall drop in property crime and a relatively flat violent crime rate through the third quarter of the year would normally be reason for backslaps over at CMPD HQ. But not when the dips come part and parcel of a sobering spike in homicides and a troubling jump of home break-ins. |
For years Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials, along with educrats across North Carolina, refused to admit that the state's end-of-grade reading and math tests were seriously flawed, with low grading curves and absurdly easy questions producing pass rates that showed upwards of 85 percent of students at or above grade level. |
After failing to resolve last week whether Mecklenburg County should delay a planned property revaluation scheduled to start in January, commissioners are slated to tackle the issue again next month. |
Mecklenburg Commissioner Dan Ramirez, a Republican, broke party ranks Tuesday night to vote with the board's four Democrats to approve spending $19 million for an urban park in uptown's Third Ward. |
Citing concerns about Democrat George Dunlap's volatile behavior as a school board member and disciplinary action taken against him when he was former police officer, Republicans on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners blocked his appointment to the board Tuesday night. |
Mayor Pat McCrory continues to assert his reluctance to stray outside the half-cent sales tax to pay for rail projects, despite the fact that the City of Charlotte has already dumped $50 million, pulled directly from property tax coffers, into paying for infrastructure improvements along the vaunted South Corridor light-rail line. |
It's been quiet out there – too quite; and as a result some Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education members claim they, along with the public, are being kept in the dark about crimes taking place daily in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' classrooms. |
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education continued its rich tradition of fattening the wallets of Ed Shed bureaucrats when it approved a shuffle of job titles Tuesday night for ranking Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools personnel that came stocked with hefty pay hikes. |
Charlotte-Mecklenburg is steadily working its way out of drought conditions, with water-use restrictions being eased as lake levels rise and stream flows improve, but utilities officials on Monday night told the City Council not to expect recommendations for a rate cut any time soon to offset the water bill hikes that hit customers' wallets in April. |
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