Children don't even act like this
So, the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners spent time talking about seating arrangements when teachers in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system haven't had a raise in three years. How I wish this was a joke. Here's what The Charlotte Observer reported about the recent BOCC meeting: [On a] Dec. 20 meeting, [Harold]Cogdell's first as chairman, Democrat Vilma Leake asked Cogdell why her chair had been moved to the end of the dais next to [County Manager Harry] Jones, while Republican Neil Cooksey was moved closer to the middle where she once sat. Cogdell told Leake the issue wasn't on the agenda and quickly moved on. So Leake, with Roberts and Democrat George Dunlap, had the issue added to Wednesday's agenda. On Wednesday, Leake told fellow commissioners that she'd found a note after the Dec. 20 meeting. She said it was from another commissioner and that she believed it had been slipped to Cogdell during the meeting. The note, she ...