Bob “Who Are You?” Etheridge to run for NC governor
Via the News and Observer’s Under the Dome blog:
Rev. Graham hospitalized for ‘possible case of pneumonia’
The Charlotte Observer reports that America’s most beloved pastor has been hospitalized again (first time this year was in May) in Asheville, NC:
Charlotte Observer: Maybe the city needs a camping ban for #OccupyCLT, #DNC2012 groups
Has hell officially frozen over? It’s not often that the Charlotte Observer and I agree on anything but on the issue of the City of Charlotte needing to preserve the free speech rights of Occupiers while at the same time acting in the interest of public health and safety, the local fish wrap and I stand (mostly) in solidarity:
#OccupyCLT earns #OWS street cred w/ arrests at enviro protest
For weeks I’ve been monitoring developments with the local “Occupy” movement otherwise known as Occupy Charlotte. Some on Twitter have suggested that Occupy Charlotte is not as exciting as some of the other, more notorious Occupy movements like Oakland and Portland, because the only arrests have been 2 – for jaywalking (I’ve heard there was a 3rd – for public urination, but I haven’t confirmed that info). One local media outlet called OccCLT a “mostly benign” movement so far – apparently not paying attention to how they’ve been radicalized thanks to their alliances with radical Anon hacktivists and the national OWS as well as their belief that it’s ok to “occupy” private property and terrorize customers and family members of banks and bankers as “payback” for “corporate greed.”
#DNC2012 discriminates against CLT-area workers in favor of out of state union labor
The crew at Labor Union Report have been doing an absolutely outstanding job of uncovering a disturbing story that should be front page news here but isn’t: The fact that, in spite of denials by both them and Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to the contrary, the Democratic National Convention Committee is indeed discriminating against Charlotte-area workers in favor of their union masters for workers for next year’s DNC. LUR reports (hat tip: my co-blogger):