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CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Maternity absurdities: Dispatches from the couch
You spend a lot of time on the couch with the baby during maternity leave, and you have to entertain...
Vol. 23 No. 50 Published 02.09.10 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
The Uptown office space dilemma
Sure, they call it Uptown, but it's essentially a glorified office park, subject to the whims of...
Vol. 23 No. 49 Published 02.02.10 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Servatius Jr. II: 'No' means 'no.' Maybe.
When my daughter Annika was four months old, in a moment of insanity triggered by having enjoyed no...
Vol. 23 No. 48 Published 01.26.10 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Discrimination, CMS style
Charlotte–Mecklenburg Schools sure has a strange definition of discrimination. To understand i...
Vol. 23 No. 43 Published 12.22.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
The governor pulls a fast one
Well played, Bev. She even fooled me ... and most of the media outlets across the state. That doesn...
Vol. 23 No. 42 Published 12.15.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Crimes and misdirections
Until a few months ago, freeing the state's most violent inmates was very much in vogue in Ralei...
Vol. 23 No. 41 Published 12.08.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Robbed blind: Don't try this at work
Suppose you've been taking money from the company where you work. You took $10,000 here, $10,000...
Vol. 23 No. 40 Published 12.01.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
'Ho' High School?: Pimp that if you will
Half of the minority students in our school system don't graduate. The system is slashing progra...
Vol. 23 No. 39 Published 11.24.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Playing racial-justice roulette
Suppose the state legislature came up with the harebrained idea to pass a law to exempt the killers...
Vol. 23 No. 38 Published 11.17.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
White flight drives mayoral results
In a column called "Charlotte's last white mayor," Glenn H. Burkins, editor of the loc...
Vol. 23 No. 37 Published 11.10.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Charlotte's new power base
A classic, yet timely, edition of Citizen Servatius
Vol. 23 No. 36 Published 11.03.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Meet your new subprime lender
There was great joy recently in Charlotte as builders began pulling permits again to build new singl...
Vol. 23 No. 35 Published 10.27.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
National outrage: hard cores going out the door
Every couple of months, North Carolina makes national news for the dysfunctional way the state handl...
Vol. 23 No. 34 Published 10.20.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Mortgage bailout 2.0
And you thought the bailouts were over. Turns out, we're just getting started. In less than a ye...
Vol. 23 No. 33 Published 10.13.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Charlotte officially falls off the map
It was a bitch-slap of epic proportions. A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published the res...
Vol. 23 No. 32 Published 10.06.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Are we headed for 'global cooling'?
For reasons that aren't entirely clear, the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Pan...
Vol. 23 No. 31 Published 09.29.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Free-range kids: An international debate
Lori Pierce didn't intend to spark an international debate. When her 10-year-old son William as...
Vol. 23 No. 30 Published 09.22.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Has a boom turned to depression?
Michael Smith, president of the Uptown booster group Charlotte Center City Partners, recently used t...
Vol. 23 No. 29 Published 09.15.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Searching for the cost of health care reform
You wouldn't buy an auto insurance policy without asking what it cost. But that's what the A...
Vol. 23 No. 28 Published 09.08.09 by Tara Servatius -
CITIZEN SERVATIUS
Blown away: A home invasion gone wrong
You can't just shoot people, no matter how much they piss you off. But if you are going to shoo...
Vol. 23 No. 27 Published 09.01.09 by Tara Servatius
