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		<title>Town of Cornelius: County Reval Gave Us The Shaft; UPDATE II: Full steam ahead for appeals</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2012/02/town-of-cornelius-county-reval-gave-us-the-shaft-requests-moratorium-on-appeals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornelius Mayor Jeffery Tarte, at the direction of and on behalf of the Cornelius Town Board, this week fired a shot across the bow of Mecklenburg County’s revaluation process, giving official voice to simmering frustrations from homeowners who think they’ve been dealt “the short end of the stick.” In a letter to Mecklenburg Commissioners Chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rail Transit Realists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s taken entirely way too long, but finally a responsible government body (I know, it’s very much the oxymoron, but stick with me here) has stood up to voice legitimate concerns and demand realistic projections for an astonishingly pricey rail-transit project. It happened this week when the Iredell Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douse New Fire District Tax</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2012/01/douse-new-fire-district-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lewis Guignard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commissioner Jennifer Roberts might not be at the head of the table anymore, but tax increases seem to be the order of the day unless what we are reading is leaving something out. County officials are working on a scheme to levy a new tax. They call it a “new funding vehicle for delivery of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowballs of Secession</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2012/01/snowballs-of-secession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of about 40 residents from south Mecklenburg, including County Commissioner Bill James and City Councilmember Warren Cooksey, huddled this week to discuss the possibility of Ballantyne and a swath of suburbia breaking from Charlotte to form its own city. And folks from Mecklenburg’s southern suburbs, it turns out, aren’t the only ones contemplating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill James Faces Showdown At Suburban Political Corral</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2012/01/bill-james-faces-showdown-at-suburban-political-corral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been almost two decades since Bill James took a seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, representing the heavily suburban, southern swath District 6 of the county, and nearly as long since the oft-outspoken and controversial Republican has faced a legitimate challenger at the ballot box. This year is looking to prove an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BallantyneTown &#8211; &#8220;Let My People Go&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/ballantynetown-let-my-people-go/</link>
		<comments>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/ballantynetown-let-my-people-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That would be the new moniker and rallying/battle cry  if the brainchild of Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, a Republican who represents, in part, the southern wilds of the county ever comes to fruition. From a mass email James launched today: Mecklenburg needs a new &#8216;Town of Ballantyne&#8217; If consolidation talk won&#8217;t die; Southern residents need Town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Chairs Cacophony On County Board</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/musical-chairs-cacophony-on-county-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners wasn’t preoccupied at its meeting this week launching investigations into the possibly nefarious doings of one or more of their own, commissioners stayed busy tackling some of the top priorities of local governance. The meeting’s opening prayer and pledge were no sooner over and done when Commissioner Vilma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Republic: A.K.A. Charlotte Chiquita</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/banana-republic-a-k-a-charlotte-chiquita/</link>
		<comments>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/banana-republic-a-k-a-charlotte-chiquita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city council gave final approval of the multi-million-dollar Chiquita peel deal last week; county commissioners are on tap tonight to follow suit. A truly proud and progressive moment for Char-Meck GovCo and the company they keep: &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>County Commission Crips</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/county-commission-crips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pellin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than three days into his tenure as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Harold Cogdell is already neck deep in serious allegations of pay-to-play politics for his role in landing copious amounts of tax dollars for a local non-profit agency that subsequently hired him as its attorney. Some of the more notorious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bananas for Charlotte, or Charlotte Just Bananas?</title>
		<link>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/bananas-for-charlotte-or-charlotte-just-bananas/</link>
		<comments>http://pundithouse.com/2011/12/bananas-for-charlotte-or-charlotte-just-bananas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Hine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City of Charlotte to small entrepreneur: “Your business privilege tax is due immediately.”  City of Charlotte to billion-dollar mega-corp: “Here&#8217;s millions of dollars from our citizens and existing businesses. We know we have an unfavorable tax climate, but we like *you* so we’ll help you out.  The rest of the local riff raff can just [...]]]></description>
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