Aforementioned JLF brain Michael Sanera has published a planner’s glossary to help Raleigh residents really understand Raleigh’s 2030 comprehensive plan. But the terms apply equally well here in G’boro.
Here’s how Sanera defines ’sustainability’:
For example, the term is often described as ‘development that meets the needs of the present [...]
Billy Kennedy attended Virginia Foxx's health care forum in Statesville today. Here is his take on the event:
After Rep. Foxx's health care town hall today, I searched the Constitution to see where it says we taxpayers are supposed to be subsidizing her personal health care insurance. I couldn't find it.
You' [...]
The word is that tea bag protesters will be in Lillington around 11:30 at the Bob Etheridge office just as they did last week in Raleigh. I am assuming this is more of Art Pope's astroturf nonsense. Why aren't these people at work on a Tuesday morning. Must be a' [...]
These guys have the durability of tungsten:
A foreign policy expert and former advisor to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, will discuss "The Freedom Agenda and the Middle East," at Duke University on Tuesday.
Elliott Abrams is currently a senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations. In [...]
Hi friends,
Just dropping by very quickly to say thank you for your support in Blue NC's recent Senate poll. It means a lot to see so many of you supporting my campaign as we head into the final stretch toward the primary. This is just another sign of our' [...]
Here's the scoop on a report that's being released this Thursday about how NC can create jobs and become more energy efficient. The report is by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) and the Lieutenant Governor is speaking.
ACEEE To Release North Carolina Report of Efficiency Recommendations
IF YOU ARE A NORTH CAROLINIAN WHO VOTED FOR OR SUPPORTED LARRY KISSELL FOR CONGRESS, PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS TO THIS THREAD. AND THEN CALL LARRY.
Dear Larry.
I remember our first conversation like it was yesterday. You called me to ask for advice about your campaign, and also to [...]
With Democrat Harold Webb joining in by phone to break the deadlock, the Wake Commissioners today voted 4-3 to restore coverage for elective abortions to the county’s employee health insurance package, overturning County Manager David Cooke’s decision to drop it. The background on the issue is [...]
Nary a day passes that legislators or local officials don’t find a way to say that it’s government’s job to create jobs. The lack of free-market understanding and lack of a principled approach to job creation is staggering. The most recent and ludicrous example was highlighted today by the good [...]
Human dignity loses in Wake County today.
Wake County commissioners have voted to reinstate elective abortion coverage to the Wake County insurance policy, effective March 19. The vote was 4 to 3 and is listed below. A “yes” vote reinstates elective abortion coverage. A “no” vote opposes the reinstatement of elective [...]
The good guy wonks and organizers at Democracy NC are out with another report on the Census today. The message: One out of four N.C. counties is at high risk of a major undercount that would effectively flush millions of federal dollars down the [...]
Best quote in months about Sarah Palin today came from Florida Ultra-Progressive Rep. Alan Grayson. Palin was in his territory yakking up the same old spiel about losing freedoms because they have a Democrat in office blah, blah, blah, and Alan Grayson fired back:
"I look forward to an honest" [...]
A speaker who opposes taxpayer funding of elective abortions for Wake County employees referenced comments made to Carolina Journal’s David Bass by Commissioner Stan Norwalk. You can read Bass’s story on taxpayer funding of elective abortions here.
[...]This afternoon the Wake County commissioners are discussing the potential reinstatement of elective abortion coverage for county employees. Carolina Journal’s David Bass reported on the growing controvery over covering elective abortion in several North Carolina counties across the state.
You can watch the meeting live right here.
[...]The nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports says it's time to pass a health care reform bill.
Consumers Union is running a radio ad in the state urging Congress to pass reform. The ads feature Jim Guest, the president and CEO of Consumers Union. While the ads don't specifically endorse' [...]
Last year, the pharmaceutical industry won yet another round in the NC General Assembly when they successfully fought off yet another attempt to implement a comprehensive preferred drug list in NC. Commentators been writing about such a list for years and it’s pretty simple – almost every [...]
Sea levels on the North Carolina coast will rise 15 to 55 inches over the next 90 years, according to a state science panel.
In a report delivered to a legislative commission today, the state Coastal Resources Commission's science panel on coastal hazards recommended that planners and policy makers anticipate sea [...]
And the program finishes about $2m. in the red as a result.
CNBC went to the numbers released to comply with The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act to find that Duke is massively out-of-whack compared to other institutions. ACC regular season co-champ Maryland only spends $45K per player, for example.
The [...]
A foreign policy expert and former advisor to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, will discuss "The Freedom Agenda and the Middle East," at Duke University on Tuesday.
Elliott Abrams is currently a senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2002, he was the senior director on the [...]
The Swiss investment firm Credit Suisse will handle the new $230 million fund within the state pension fund that invests in North Carolina companies.
[...]Looks like the Old Dominion and the Palmetto State have us Tar Heels caught in the ol' squeeze play. Adulterers and bigots to the south, birthers and morons to the north. I sure hope this crap isn't contagious.
[...]Representative David Rice (D-NC) has announced his intention to vote for the comprehensive health reform package that could finally be voted on this week in the House of Representatives.
Price becomes the first member of North Carolina’s congressional delegation to formally announce that he will back the landmark legislation.
To help [...]
VIA EMAIL:
Washington, DC – Flanked by constituents who favor comprehensive health insurance reform, Representative David Price (D-NC) today announced his support for the legislation that will come before the House of Representatives later this week. Rep. Price is the first member of congress from North Carolina to announce that he [...]
While we’ve certainly had our differences with the News & Observer, we applaud their weeklong effort to highlight the need for greater transparency in state and local government. Our friend, Dan Kane, has penned two good pieces which chronicle how the state’s restrictive personnel policies often withhold important information [...]
This week’s news cycles are likely to be dominated with the drama that is the omnibus health legislation. (I’d call it health care legislation, but it’s not.) I still believe it’s hopelessly mired in the gristmill that is Congress. Back room deals, promises, lack of transparency, he [...]
I don't expect Bill Graham to know the difference between a falafel and a loofah any more than Bill O'Reilly. Nor do I expect either to know the difference between a pita and a parantha.
It's safe to say that when Bill Graham named a company
Rielle Hunter has spoken.
In a long, wide-ranging Q&A to be published in the April issue of GQ, Hunter, says she was not the reason Edwards' marriage ended.
' [...]DavidsonNews.Net went and got copies of the letters between the state Local Government Commission — which approved the public expenditure of $92m. to buy a beat-up CATV system — and M-I Connection.
And surprise, the cable system letter reveals that subscriber assumptions the towns made were wholly unrealistic [...]
The General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division has a report updating state revenues through the end of February. Some key findings:
• General Fund revenue for the first 8 months of the fiscal year are $45 million below a $12.1 billion target for the period.
– Through the efforts of the [...]
I read with an open mind the N&R’s front-pager on Greensboro Coliseum director Matt Brown’s pet project —- the ACC Hall of Champions, which he hopes will open in time for the 2011 tournament.
Brown already has $2 million in state taxpayers’ money in hand for the first phase, and [...]
The Jacksonville Daily News doesn’t think much of the usual proposals for more government spending to respond to chronic unemployment, and offers a different prescription:
For decades, business owners have understood that an overtaxed, overregulated struggling public translates into fewer dollars spent on goods and services. They also know by [...]
Chapel Hill Councilwoman Penny Rich wants to ban the use of handheld cell phones while driving. I agree that not looking at the road while driving is a distraction. The question is, where does this stop? If you believe the government should protect you from yourself, then why are [...]
Appearing before Graham on ABC’s “This Week,” Axelrod had brushed off Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) criticism of healthcare reform, saying that Brown had voted for a very similar package for his home state of Massachusetts.
“Senator Brown comes from a state that has a healthcare plan that’s similar to the one [...]
There’s a good piece in the Brunswick Beacon today to kick off Sunshine Week. It examines the issue of public access to court documents and judicial proceedings, laying out what is available and when. What’s not available?
The following court documents are not public record: adoption records, civil discovery, commitment [...]
All is well with Rielle Hunter, I suppose.
She is living in Charlotte — although evidently not in the too expensive Providence Road home purchased for her — giving lengthy interviews to GQ — GQ? — and posing for some of the most bizarre photos [...]
Jamestown resident Pat Mattern urges his fellow citizens to turn out Tuesday, when the Town Council will discuss the proposed $4 million renovation of the town’s public golf course.
In this interview with the Jamestown News, Mayor Keith Volz freely admits that the course is a money-loser and that [...]
Unpossible. Nothing worthwhile is in a strip mall. The Uptown crowd led by the UPoR and city staff have told us that for years. Let alone a strip mall that is “more industrial than gentrified.” Cannot be. Run away.
Once again reality bumps up against central planning. Of course Amelie’s [...]
The New York Times reports that three members of North Carolina’s Congressional delegation are among the 40 members of the House being bombarded with ads by both sides as a final vote on health care reform approaches.
Representatives Bobby Etheridge, Larry Kissell, and Mike McIntyre have all [...]
Except. Well. The glove.
Did they not have a left-hand glove for Pat?
Anndd we’re out.
[...]I think this fling has run its course. With UNCC shutout of the post-season once again thanks thanks to an epic late season collapse and fan enthusiasm for the A-10 at a low ebb, something needs to give. It may not be wholly his fault, but Bobby Lutz just has [...]
