ESPN College GameDay profiles Rutgers' superfan Anthony Starego, who has battled autism and recently kicked a game-winning field goal to help Brick upset Toms River North. Cedar's Take: You'll need some time to collect yourself after watching this....
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Does the stunning defeat of a re-zoning request signal a change in direction for Charlotte City Council? Could be......From the Charlotte Observer:A controversial rezoning request to build a Walgreens drug store and office building in Dilworth was rejected by Charlotte City Council Monday night, delighting neighbors who had waged an aggressive campaign of e-mails and yard signs against the project.Developer Lincoln Harris’s rezoning lost 9-3,...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Another CMPD Homicide Investigation - The news report was standard and just all too familiar, "Charlotte-Mecklenburg homicide detectives are investigating a shooting Saturday that left one man dead."On the first really cold night of the 2012 holiday season, another black male lost his life to gunfire in East Charlotte.On Saturday CMPD Officers responded to a "call for service" along the 7500 block of Shady Lane and later provided the...
Monday, 19 November 2012
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Cedar Posts is working the other job this weekend but can't let the day pass without acknowledging that today, November 11th is Veterans Day.Often confused as the fall Memorial Day, the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month formally marks the end of World War 1 and has been used ever since to "remember all" who have fought our country's wars.Today for so many reasons we are surrounded by veterans, so many go about...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Years ago I picked this medal up in the parking lot of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.All this time I've held on to it having no idea what it says or who is depicted on the front. The writing in not Arabic, but it doesn't seem to be Hebrew either. And the profile looks remarkably like Anwar Sadat the Egyptian President, which if that is the case Hebrew would make even less sense.Any suggestions?And finally I'd be thrilled to locate...
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Well liked, career CMPD Captain Chuck Adkins has apparently been fired by Chief Monroe. Adkins had been with the department since 1991.Adkins who served under three different department chiefs found himself in Chief Monroe's cross hairs early last year when he got into a altercation with a 16 year neighborhood thug Jamel Malik Williams.According to news reports from January of this year, the teen was charged with assaulting Captain...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Amazing story of the sinking of the Bounty and the loss of her Captain and one crew member continues to unfold.Now a video interview has surfaced where Bounty's captain Robin Walbridge is reported to tell the reporter that he loves "chasing hurricanes".Leaving safe harbor as a storm closes in on you is not a bad idea, "heading east" to avoid the storm, not a bad idea either. But why the change in course? First reports that HMS Bounty is proceeding...
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