The local news talk radio station is having a contest where the winner gets to host their own weekly show. It’s only two hours a week on sunday night.. but it sounded like something that might be fun. So this is my entry. It was recorded and mixed with the open source Ardour digital workstation [...]
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Still buying municipial bonds?
October 12, 2010
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US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits As I mentioned back in March… municipal debt mostly in the form of unfunded pensions is going to become a monster issue over the next 18 months or so. You are going to see cities going bankrupt or getting bailouts. As bad as it is [...]
A Streetcar Named Bankruptcy
July 27, 2010
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So our illustrious Charlotte city council last night voted to take 25 million of federal money to start a new uptown street car boondoggle.. er I mean transit system. To avoid confusion with the multitude of pet rail projects around here they decided to end service on the uptown trolley that has been in operation [...]
Charlotte Bin Watch – Day 62
July 7, 2010
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It was 62 days ago that I ask the city of Charlotte to take back their RFID tagged recycling bin. I’m not going to play their game… which if you didn’t know involves tracking your participation in their money losing recycling program… and eventually fines.. and re-education about how to be eco friendly. No thanks [...]
Charlotte Giving Raises While Rome Burns
May 25, 2010
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Ok.. so maybe Charlotte isn’t Rome.. and while it’s not exactly burning it’s certainly not good out there. Locally we still have a 12% unemployment rate and according to Civitas NC state government has grown over 12% while private employment has contracted by 1.6% between 01 and 09. Ouch. Tara talked about this during drive [...]
