Operation Homefront of North Carolina

Operation Homefront of North Carolina - Home ProjectWe’re thrilled to announce that Home Depot and Operation Homefront of North Carolina are partnering again to provide up to $5,000 worth of home improvements to a qualifying military family (active duty or veteran).  The home must be in the Charlotte, NC area (between Pineville to the South and Cornelius to the North).  Please forward this email if you are aware of any military family that...

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NBC's Olympic Size Fail

NBC has paid big bucks 4 billon of them to own broadcast rights to the 2012 London Games as well as 2014 winter games and 2016 games, which means you can watch their coverage when they say you can. But they didn't seem to anticipate Twitter.Americans who are die hard sports fans don't care to put their lives on hold and devote hours to watch a long drawn out commercial filled "production" interlaced with tearful back stories to eventually...

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In Case You Missed It - Charlotte's Fire Truck Pull

This afternoon July 29, 2012, firefighters and police officers will lug a firetruck by a rope along an uptown Charlotte street – for fun a for a cause.“The Pink Lady”made its official debut at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on October 1, 2011. Photo Courtsey Charlotte Fire Department.It’s all part of the “Pink Lady Fire Truck Pull,” an event to raise money for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Cops 4 the Cure group and the Charlotte...

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London Olympics Tweet of the Night

“@TVMcGee: "The vast number of athletes you see here will not win a medal." --Matt Lauer, Motivational Speaker #Olympi...

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Friday Wrap-Up

CP Flash Back - October 1997 and Charlotte's Chief Rodney Monroe was the "Assistant Chief" at the nation's largest police department, Washington DC Metro. But all was not well within the ranks. "The picture painted of the District's police department in confidential consultants' reports obtained by The Washington Post last week had some talking of an agency fallen into chaos." Questions about police vehicles - "A 1995 city audit found that police...

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Warren Cooksey Busted?

WBTV's See, Click, Fix segment normally solves bothersome local issues that neighbors just don't seem to make any progress on. Imagine WBTV's surprise when they learned that the homeowner they were targeting for an unkempt lawn was Charlotte City Councilman Warren Cooksey.Warren Cooksey Photo Courtesy: City of Charlotte1404 Lyon CourtIn the above Mecklenburg County photo all looks pretty tidy. But a drive by via Google street view shows...

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Monday Odds and Ends

Did You See Them? - CMPD Officers did. Turns out the DNC 2012 anarchists are already in Charlotte. CMPD has more than a dozen officers watching and photographing people who are apparently checking out Charlotte's Uptown in advance of the DNC 2012.Word on the street is that elements of groups known to generally impede traffic and wish to cause general chaos, have been spotted in the Uptown area.Those observed have not been confronted, only watched...

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Obama's Storm Troopers - Ashley Judd Comes to Charlotte

Obama's final option "celebs" are beginning to invade Charlotte. Word from the Charlotte Observer is that actress Ashley Judd will host a "Women For Obama Summit" in Charlotte today. The event, which will be from 3 to 4 p.m. at Central Piedmont Community College, is free and open to the public. Ashley Judd making "Cat" calls.Judd, who is the third rail of the seriously dysfunctional Naomi, and Wynonna family, will address her concerns about...

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Friday Wrap Up - Rainbow Edition

Gay Mural on Central - You might have suspected, but just for the record the rainbow themed wall on Charlotte's Central Avenue is a project by the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte.The project features a rainbow horizon, large bookend profiles of a transvestite, and a couple of street walkers.According to Matt Comer editor of QNotes, the project is titled “Our Lives, Our Culture, Our Time,” and focuses on a message...

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Former Slave Letter Signed "Brother Jourdon Anderson" A Hoax or is it?

The Brother Jourdon Anderson letter has surfaced again, this past weekend, with the AP claiming it as a recent discovery.  Thankfully unlike the Observer's Slave Children photo, they have apparently elected not to fill their new columns with the hoax.The story of the slave telling his former owner where to put his offer of employment and security has again appeared with seemingly authoritative support as to its authenticity.  Except, there is something overly convenient about the letter and the commentary. First...

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In Case You Missed It - WalMart Riot

A huge Saturday-night house party broken up by police in a North Jacksonville, Florida subdivision ended with one man shot in the leg as he and hundreds of other partygoers fled the officers' arrival. But the party didn't stop at the home in the 12000 block of Sampson Road, according to the Sheriff's Office.Hundreds of its teenage partyers ignited a flash mob about 90 minutes later at the Walmart Supercenter at 12100 Lem Turner Road. They took over the produce section and caused havoc that was recorded and posted on YouTu...

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Another Harris Teeter Store Held Up

WSOC is reporting that CMPD detectives are reviewing video from a July 17, 2012 Aldie, Virginia Harris Teeter robbery to figure out if it is connected the robbery of four Harris Teeter stores in the Charlotte area.The store is located, just outside Washington D.C.A video released by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Department shows two black men, one armed with a hand gun raiding the "U-Scan" self-service check out registers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police told Channel 9 detectives know about the Virginia crime, but can’t say if they are the same robbers...

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Anthony Foxx' Former PR Manager Found Dead

Erica Johnson, 39, was found dead late Monday in her mother’s High Point home. Johnson was Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx’s communications manager but resigned effective Dec. 2, 2011, shortly after she returned from a medical leave. Johnson graduated with honors from Howard University and worked as a media relations coordinator at Walt Disney World and as an assignment editor at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem before she joined the Charlotte Chamber as vice president for public relations. Johnson joined the mayor’s office in the winter of 2010, shortly...

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In Case You Missed It - Charlotte Teen Given Probation in Attempted Kidnapping

WSOC reported on Friday that a Charlotte teenager who tried to take a 7-year-old girl from her north Charlotte apartment complex would not go to prison.Prosecutors agreed to a plea deal with Matthew Cruz, 18, that puts him on three years probation and requires that he undergo mental health evaluation and treatment.Cruz had picked up the girl at an apartment complex near Northlake Mall in April and put her over his shoulder before she was able to break free and run for help. He was charged with kidnapping and assault but the charges were reduced...

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Charlotte City Council Members and Zombies

On Monday night Charlotte City Council Member Warren Cooksey tweeted:“@WCooksey: News from the closed session: "ask" continues to be used as a noun by ‪#cltcc‬ members.” No, Mr. Cooksey wasn't cracking on Charlotte City Council's diversity, it was not a question of pronunciation, but rather use.  The councilman had noticed that some members have taken to using the word "ask" as a noun vs a verb. ie: We have an "ask" on the table....

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MSC Flaminia 2 Crew Men Dead Others Recused

Nothing causes stress to a boat captain more than a fire as sea.A week ago Cedar Posts gave guests aboard for a Charleston Habor tour a close up look at the arriving container ship MSC Flaminia.On Saturday July 14, an explosion in hold #4 started a fire onboard the ship after it had left Charleston in route to Antwerpen Belgium. The crew fought the fire beforebeing forced to abandon the ship nearly a 1,000 nautical miles from...

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Charlotte's Segregated Past - Not So Simple

The Charlotte Observer's Elizabeth Leland added to her series on the South with Sunday's installment which was offered up as a testament to our segregated past. "When President Barack Obama makes history in Charlotte by accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination for a second term, Nellie Ashford hopes we won’t forget there was a time when our city might not have welcomed a person of color."Leland goes on to say; "In her pretty folk art...

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Senior Master Sgt Robert Cannon

You might have noticed the three NC ANG C-130s that flew most of Sunday afternoon over South Charlotte. The aircraft were "on station" honoring Senior Master Sergeant Robert S. Cannon who was killed Sunday, July 1, 2012, while fighting the White Draw Fire in South Dakota.NC ANG C-130s over South CharlotteThe planes flew a race track pattern during the funeral that was held Carmel Baptist Church, beginning at 4PM and they continued...

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Long Hot Summer

Suddenly Charlotte is in the middle of  a "long hot summer" as the sound of gunfire again fills the night air in East Charlotte. Another homicide, the fifth murder in a week having occurred just minutes into Sunday.According to CMPD, Officers responded to several 911 calls reporting shots fired at 6008 Timbertop Lane just off Harrisburg Road. Responding Officers found three men suffering from gunshot wounds. Medic responders declared one victim...

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Friday Wrap-Up Homeless Edition

Homeless in Charlotte - The Charlotte Observer points out the obvious, that the main library has become a summer haven for Charlotte's homeless.The surest way to mingle with Charlotte’s homeless is to stand outside uptown’s Main library just before the doors open at 10 a.m.Odds are, many of the people in line ahead of you are homeless, and their numbers only grow as the day gets hotter.It’s a fact that has caused some conflict in the past, including...

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