Thieves among us - Seems CMPD has a security lapse deep inside the law enforcement center. Charlotte office workers are well aware that anything left laying about is likely to "grow legs" and just disappear. Leave your lunch in the break room frig and at least in some offices someone else might eat it. Mistakenly leave your desk unlocked you'll find the change from yesterdays lunch long gone in the morning.But you would expect your personal stuff, like wallet, and iPhone would be safe from crooks in the CMPD law enforcement center. But apparently...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
For most, this past weekend was full of boating, family picnics, beer drinking, partying til dawn, a 3 day weekend on the water, at the mountains or at the beach, with a good dose of NASCAR's Coca Cola 600 thrown in to kick off the un-official Official start of Summer. And in case you missed it, Memorial Day.A number of years ago Mrs. Cedar and I spent the last weekend of May on the West Coast. Three fun filled days of checking out...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
For years I've heard of DC Medlock's wild temper, always discounting it as scuttle butt. Then I got a taste of it in person recently. Having a white Mercedes ride my bumper I tried to bail to the right and let the car go around, just as I did he went base line and passed me on the right, nearly taking the back end of my SUV with him. I moved back to the left to let him pass, only to get brake checked and have the guy move left and slow down...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The 6th Annual softball tournament will return to Matthews next month to honor slain Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton.The annual tournament, along with a Home Run Derby Contest, is set for June 2-3 one month earlier than last year and will be held at Meckenburg County's Idlewild Road Park. The tournament will feature 16 teams, eight co-ed and eight all-men teams.Shelton, 35, and Clark, 34, both...
Monday, 21 May 2012
Did you know that CMPD Officers "FAMILY" medical coverage that has become so expensive that many drop the coverage and find it "outside" the department? Cedar Says: If you are one of those who have discovered this fact, and have signed up for the Blue Cross Advantage or other health insurance outside of the department Cedar Posts would like to here from you.Props to Chief Monroe on earning his CJ degree! Excellent idea sending CMPD guys to the "Windy City" to see first hand the nutties we'll have to deal with during the DNC 2012, and it is...
According to Natalie Dick, with the Chamber of Commerce, the US Airways flight had a "mechanical failure."Officials were prepared to leave for London around 6:25 p.m. on Saturday, when they received the bad news. Because of the tight schedule, the InterCity Visit to London was cancelled."We regret the inconvenience this has caused all participants on both sides of the Atlantic and the lost opportunity to learn from the penultimate global city of...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
I'll Have Another left and Bodemeister Right (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)I'll Have Another, ridden by Mario Gutierrez, beat Bodemeister, ridden by Mike Smith, to the finish line to win the 137th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Baltimore Maryland. Having won the Kentucky Derby and now the Preakness I'll have another needs "One More" to win the Triple Crown, a feat that has not made the headlines since Affirmed won in...
Saturday, 19 May 2012
The Charlotte Observer's long awaited "investigative" report on Charlotte Police Chief Rodney Monroe has finally come to print. The above photo has nothing to do with the story. Buried in this morning's Sunday paper, the story is overly long and reads like a high school history book. It lacks depth, offers nothing of fact and will leave most Cedar Posts readers flat.However, it does acknowledge that Chief Monroe has his critics, "the...
Friday, 18 May 2012
Chicago's NATO Protests - Charlotte's primer on the DNC 2012 Protests to come will hit full stride this weekend in Chicago. With few arrests and no real violence the Chicago warm up has so far been entertaining. Friday afternoon "Occupy" protesters joined a group of nurses only to split from the group and head off in a different direction using the street and traffic to cause chaos along Chicago's Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River....
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Little notice was made of the "Predator" drone flying over Chicago recently, but this is an amazing turn of events in the course of American history. No doubt we'll see these armed killing machines flying over Charlotte come September. But the use of such instruments of war, goes against the moral fabric of this country. Air Force drones taking out Islamic extremists in some far away sand box, suddenly become a dark ominous menace when flying over a Chicago soccer field. ...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Sunday, 13 May 2012
In September 2010 Hank Pellissier created the following time table for the acceptance of gay marriage in America. He calculated when same-sex weddings will achieve majority support throughout the country. For 30 states, he did this by adding 1% per year to the percentage that voted against a gay marriage ban, until the total reached 50.1%. In the remaining states, He used either polling and/or calculated an acceptance date based on the behavior of neighboring states with a similar demographic. If a state became surrounded by either...
Thursday, 10 May 2012
With voter turnout of 34% North Carolina passed Amendment 1, by a wide margin, 61% for to 39% against. The LGBT liberal havens of Buncombe, Dare, Durham, Lee, Mecklenburg, Orange, Wake, Watuga are the 8 of our 100 counties that voted against the measure. But even in those counties is was not an overwhelming statement.In Watagua only a couple hundred votes split the totals and in Buncombe only a 1 percent margin was won by those against...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Army Specialist Junot M. L. Cochilus a 34-year-old soldier from Charlotte died in Afghanistan last week, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday afternoon.Specialist Cochilus was killer along with a 23-year-old soldier from Ohio on May 2 in the Logan province of Afghanistan. Insurgents attacked the soldier's unit with an improvised explosive device (IED). Cochilus was assigned to the 7th Engineer Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, 10th...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Much to the surprise of many in Charlotte, Amendment 1 passed yesterday. There were hundreds of comments condemning the approval via twittter, so much drama from anger to outright weeping. Seth Keel, center, is consoled by his boyfriend Ian Chambers, left, and his mother Jill Hinton, during a concession speech at an Amendment One opposition party at The Stockroom at 230 in downtown Raleigh. TRAVIS LONGRead more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/08/3227863/amendment-one-nc-voters-approve.html#storylink=cpyThose...
In a fun piece of investigative journalism WCNC's Dianne Gallagher and videographer James Capozzi did a little spelunking under Uptown Charlotte's streets. The report points out something that "locals" have known all along that Charlotte's storm water system and storm drains are all interconnected. The main idea of the report is that Charlotte is at risk because of an overwhelming...
Monday, 7 May 2012
More than 2 dozen cars were broken into over the weekend. The full parking lots made for easy picking, as nearly non-existant police presence and lack of operating security camera gave crooks the upper hand. Unlike shipping center parking lots were owners ar away from their cars only an hour or do, cars at the airport cas are left unattended for days at a time. The total number of cars broken into during the crime spree may not be known until later this we...
Friday, 4 May 2012
Mayor Foxx and City Council - London bound on your nickel. File this under "You have got to be kidding". While suggesting that Charlotte taxpayers accept both a water rate increase and a 10% property tax increase, Charlotte City Council members and Mayor Foxx plan to fly to London on a "fact finding" mission. Cost to you the taxpayer nearly 6k per person.Cedar's Take: I think Kevin Siers spells in out rather nicely. More from Kevin Siers here.Billy...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Last Friday Charlotte Business Journal's Adam O'Daniel reported that First Trust Bank was being targeted by both community banks and private-equity groups.According to CBJ, First Trust's president, Jim Bolt, declined to comment, citing company policy not to discuss market speculation.CBJ also noted that iinvestors, "clearly believe something is up. As of midday, nearly 55,000 shares had traded hands, which was highly unusual for a stock...
The supplier of CMPD's newly purchased Tasers, has made a sudden change in the defense of their product's safety. The reason is an article published by the American Heart Association's journal, "Circulation," which presents the first ever scientific, peer-reviewed evidence that Tasers can cause cardiac arrest and death. The article, written by Electrophysiologist Dr. Douglas Zipes of Indiana University, marks the first time that a research paper...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Charlotte's Mayor Anthony Foxx and Chief of Police Rodney Monroe Play 18 Holes - Was the $500.00 per hole entry fee paid by Charlotte taxpayers? You can't fault a guy for wanting to play a round of golf on a perfect spring day. And it is certainly understandable when the course is Charlotte's Quail Hollow. But who pays the entry fee for Chief Monroe? Who foots the bill for Mayor Foxx? We all remember the dust up over the Mayor's trip to...
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