Self-serving environmental organizations and government employees continue their efforts to scam the public with schemes to get more taxpayer funding. We saw a classic example recently in a front page Wilmington Star-News print article by Gareth McGrath titled, “Bring back old pines, group says.”
Tonight on The Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, Asheville City Councilmen Cecil Bothwell will talk about nearly not being able to hold office in NC, because it is against the law for an atheist to hold office in the state.
The story has seen press from the NY Times ([...]
If you go to Google or Ask.com or any other search engine or if you go to many of the various blogs that speak to this issue, you will see postings that speak to the poster's personal beliefs. This is my personal situation (as an analogy) on the issue of [...]
Big surprise. Bank of New York Mellon CEO Bob Kelly says he is not interested in the top job at Bank of America.
I always thought floating Kelly was a beard for BAC to deflect criticism from its obvious preference for insider Brian Moynihan. In fact, I’d wager this “job [...]
Cross-posted from Sustainable Futures
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the convening body of the Copenhagen climate talks. This is the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (meaning countries), so it is called COP15. Right now, there is so much attention focused on these [...]
The Raleigh Board of Adjustment, after a nearly three-hour hearing, voted 4-1 to uphold the inspections department’s decision that Bett Padgett’s house concerts violate the city’s residential zoning. The fact that she hosts more than three concerts a year, the board decided, makes them a business even though she [...]
President Barack Obama’s favorability in North Carolina hit a new low in our poll this month with less than half of voters having a favorable opinion of him. It now stands at 48% favorable, 38% unfavorable, down from a high of 64% the first time we asked in March of [...]
Here’s some good news for dreary Monday afternoon: Lawyers at Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC) have secured a temporary restraining order today from federal District Judge Terence Boyle that prohibits the state and the Beacon Center “Local Management Entity” from removing DRNC’s clients from their homes and terminating the [...]
The owner of a Chapel Hill hookah bar says he will defy the state’s new smoking ban that has ensnared his business but exempted other types of smoking establishments. Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, believes the ban is discriminatory. He will continue to sell hookahs and alcohol beginning Jan. [...]
With the death of the debate over the public option Senate leadership has turned its sights to a hefty expansion of government programs already in existence – namely, Medicare and Medicaid.
As seen by the numerous closed door meetings in the past two weeks, Democratic leaders are set on ensuring the [...]
Gov. Bev Perdue’s campaign committee disclosed late last week five additional airplane flights then then Lt. Gov. took but were not previously disclosed on campaign finance reports. This report continues to raise more questions than answers about how many more flights are out there that have not been disclosed [...]
Discover magazine is one of my favorite science journals. Despite their complete and utter abandonment of science with respect to Global Warming, they still have some great material. In their special “Year In Science” issue they review the top 100 science stories of 2009. #26 is an interview with [...]
Oh, man. It all started with Ken Thompson losing his mind and buying Golden West, didn’t it? Eastover has become a soap opera.
The Charlotte Business Journal is reporting that National Enquirer accounts are accurate — former Sen. John Edwards is setting up his mistress and reported love child in [...]
Senator Jim DeMint has taken the lead in the Senate over the past couple of years to promote responsible government spending and sound the warning siren on the waste and excess in the Federal government that is slowly bankrupting our nation. It is for that reason that I am supporting [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr will be one of the speakers Tuesday at a rally in the Capitol by opponents of the health care legislation being pushed by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Senate leadership.
Burr, a Republican, will join radio host Laura Ingraham, Sens. [...]
From our friends at Daily Kos, a quick look at one of the newest strategies the national Blue Cross Association and other insurers are using to try and deep six all the parts of health reform they don’t like.
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[...] This is the third of three blog posts with audio files from the leading Democratic contenders in the U.S. Senate campaign. Up now is former state Sen. Cal Cunningham.
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This is the second of three blog posts with audio files from the leading Democratic contenders in the U.S. Senate campaign. Up now is Sec. of State Elaine Marshall.
[...]This is the first of three blog posts with audio clips from the leading Democratic contenders in the U.S. Senate campaign. First up is Kenneth Lewis, a Durham lawyer who has never run for office before.
[...]Good government watchdog Joe Sinsheimer says Tony Rand must go.
Sinsheimer, a Democratic consultant who has emerged as campaign finance and transparent government watchdog, says Gov. Bev Perdue should reconsider appointing Rand to run the state's parole board.
Sinsheimer noted in a news release that Rand, a Fayetteville Democrat who [...]
Governor Perdue is reportedly “furious” at a Superior Court Judge’s order to uphold the law and Constitution by releasing some inmates who have served the time that the law specified that they should serve (more, actually). Setting aside the fact that there are a ton of other things that [...]
How exciting! Art Pope's daddy's money is now going to create the illusion of a grass roots uprising, with hundreds of Puppets joining Dallas (who is neither a dog nor a bus driver) Woodhouse on a road trip to Washington!
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Senator Richard Burr to speak at Code Red [...]
The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, the only racially-segregated-by-rule organization in Durham, and maybe North Carolina, pulled more hi-jinks last week:
Only 18 of the estimated 100 people who attended were allowed to vote as the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People re-elected Lavonia Allison [...]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) released a report Friday analyzing the impact of Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill currently under consideration in the Senate. It found that the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009” will in fact have a considerable financial impact [...]
N.C. Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer said last week's disclosure of five more unreported, free flights taken by Gov. Bev Perdue provide more reason to investigate her campaign finances.
Fetzer filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections in October asking for an investigation of [...]
Superior Court Judge Ripley Rand has ruled that two inmates sentenced to life in the 1970s should be freed.
His order comes less than a week after Alford Jones and Faye Brown, both convicted of murder, argued that they were being illegally detained by North Carolina prison officials, Mandy [...]
The Wake school board meets tomorrow (Tuesday). A day later, the YWCA and WakeUP Wake County are co-hosting a community forum on school issues. For the activists, it’s a chance to compare notes with each other and board member Keith Sutton. For those concerned about the schools who haven’t been [...]
Republican Tim D'Annunzio, a wealthy Hoke County businessman running for Congress in Democratic U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell's district, has hired former N.C. Republican chairman Jack Hawke as a top strategist.
"It's obviously a wide-open race," Hawke said today. "Tim has the resources to be a formidable candidate."
D'Annunzio is one [...]
Joe Sinsheimer today called on Governor Perdue reconsider the appointment of Tony Rand to the state's Parole Commission. I couldn't agree more.
Senator Rand’s statements to the Raleigh News & Observer on Friday, December 11, 2009 (“Rand says he knows little of LEA”) are absurd and misleading and raise questions' [...]
Just when you think the takeover of public schools in Wake County by free-market fundamentalists can't get any more bizarre, it turns out that the new chair of the school board is a card-carrying Christianist, a founding director of Called2Action, a zealot set on remaking public education in his' [...]
The Greensboro News-Record printed my letter to the editor on the dangers of Title IX. Check it out here:
The Dec. 9 article, “Rockingham schools accused of illegally favoring boys,” by Morgan Glover sheds light on the troubling issue: Title IX. The issue is not discrimination in schools but rather [...]
Fans of outspoken UNC-Wilmington professor Mike Adams will enjoy this Carolina Journal TV clip from his recent speech at North Carolina State University:
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Senate Leader Marc Basnight may not have a favorite political analyst, but he has a least favorite: John Davis.
Davis is the former director of the North Carolina Forum for Research and Economic Education who last year incorrectly predicted a Republican takeover of the state senate, Mark [...]
Gov. Bev Perdue has been visiting the state's military installations.
Perdue visited Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro Friday, and she is scheduled to visit Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville this morning.
Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson said Perdue has been thinking a lot lately about military families. [...]
POLITICAL PONG: Thomas Walker, a Charlotte defense attorney who has stood by the side of fallen political figures, is learning about the trouble of standing at the crossroads of law and politics.
President Barack Obama has nominated Walker to the post of U.S. attorney in North Carolina's Eastern District, [...]
One line in a recent post on the News & Observer’s Wake Ed Blog ought to wake up anybody who isn’t already worried about what the new majority on the Wake County Board of Education has planned.
The post announces that Called2Action, which it describes as a [...]
The News Reporter offers some interesting details on the action of the Columbus grand jury in the assault charges against state Sen. R.C. Soles:
At least 12 of the 17 members of the Columbus County grand jury asked the state’s Attorney General’s Office to submit “bills of indictment as are [...]
WHQR has another couple of developments in the pay scandal surrounding the New Hanover County ABC Board.
First, a group of Wilmington residents sent a letter to the chairman of the ABC board requesting that the board be reconstituted:
The letter outlines the demolition process of a block of historic bungalows, [...]
Progress on Winston-Salem’s taxpayer-funded downtown stadium pleases the citizen review committee. Construction work is about 90 percent complete and on pace to be finished two weeks before the Dash’s home opener.
Now, two things have to happen: the team needs to sell some tickets and — no kidding [...]
The Cary News reports the town council is discussing an incentives package for a technology manufacturer. I can only imagine how this must irk other companies who already do business in Cary and find themselves among the group not deemed worthy enough to receive a subsidy. So much for [...]
Mmm-kay?
Look out folks. Says here that the city of Charlotte will spend $4m. to “study” street connectivity. But if you are looking for boost connectivity, would not the first, easiest, and cheapest thing to do be remove all the barriers built by the city in the 70s and 80s?
I’m [...]
We are halfway through a story that is about to turn winter in one of the most beautiful places in the world profoundly ugly. Just like in a Cecil B. DeMille movie, we have a cast of millions, we have epic scenery, and we have made acquaintance with someone who [...]
