By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 22,2011
I’m in no way comforted at the moment. Like many people in Charlotte, I’m unsure whether it’s safe to fly out of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. A report dated Feb. 9 and released Tuesday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police gives the traveling public very little reason to feel OK about boarding a plane in Charlotte. We, the public, [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 19,2011
Last week, Meck Times reporter Tara Ramsey wrote about one of the ugly byproducts of the housing crisis. Believe it or not, there are subdivisions in the Charlotte area where residents have been repairing their own potholes after developers pulled out of the developments before all of the houses were built. As wild as it [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 15,2011
I told myself I wouldn’t get a GPS. Having moved to Charlotte last year, I planned to try to learn the city on my own, without the aid of high-tech gadgets. Plus, I really didn’t want to part with the $200 or whatever a GPS would cost. I was content with going to MapQuest and [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 12,2011
As the first birthday of the NASCAR Hall of Fame approaches, officials in Atlanta are studying Charlotte’s success – or lack thereof – with the NASCAR Hall of Fame. According to a story in Friday’s The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, officials in Georgia’s capital, which Charlotte defeated in a race for the museum, are using the hall [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 8,2011
Many Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers are in a bad mood this week, and it’s no wonder why: Superintendent Peter Gorman is talking again about messing with their salaries. Gorman is giving many teachers heartburn with his visiting of the idea of performance-based pay. It’s only a proposal at this point, with talk of it being rolled [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 5,2011
It’s a new day in Charlotte for affordable housing. The city has a new policy, adopted by the City Council last month in a 9-2 vote, that says where affordable housing can go. The council members who backed the policy might feel like they accomplished something major. They have; future affordable housing won’t be built [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: April 1,2011
What started out as an idea to reduce the number of cab companies servicing Charlotte/Douglas International Airport from 12 to three has turned into quite the mess for city officials to deal with. Controversy over the airport plan began heating up last year, with taxicab drivers calling the selection process corrupt and complaining that cutting [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: March 29,2011
Last week was an important one for anyone who owns commercial real estate in Mecklenburg County. It was when the county began mailing such owners the results of its 2011 revaluation, when they would learn how much their properties are worth, for taxing purposes, since the last revaluation eight years ago. You might think that [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: March 25,2011
It’s the butt of many a joke. Since I moved to Charlotte last year, I’ve noticed that people like to talk smack about Gaston County, Mecklenburg County’s neighbor to the west. Maybe people make fun of other counties around here, too. But in the nine months that I’ve been here, I’ve only heard people dissing [...]
By Deon Roberts, editor
Published: March 21,2011
It’s getting harder to trust anybody when it comes to how a teenager apparently snuck into a US Airways airplane wheel well at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in November. The whole thing just stinks like a dirty airplane bathroom. First, the airport’s aviation director, Jerry Orr, in December said the airport didn’t plan to conduct any [...]
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