Hendersonville is one of 80 green communities awarded a plaque by the NC League of Municipalities for being green. As anybody could predict, somebody interviewed remarked:
This is so exciting.
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Hendersonville is one of 80 green communities awarded a plaque by the NC League of Municipalities for being green. As anybody could predict, somebody interviewed remarked:
This is so exciting.
[...]There is a problem. Nobody wants to buy carbon fibers enough to cover the costs of manufacturing them, apparently. To remedy the situation, industrialists extended their crippled, needy hand to the 21st century version of Father Christmas – the $12 trillion national debt. Representative Heath Shuler (D-Waynesville) announced today Fletcher-based [...]
Just what we need; another nonprofit organization. Carolina Beach “will have a new tool to help it acquire grant money” as Wilmington Star-News reporter Amanda Hutcheson puts it. Could this be another government-supported way to scam unsuspecting taxpayers out of their hard-earned money?
Carolina Beach Public Purpose Properties [...]
Any real fan will tell you he’s thinking about football more often than not, with random thoughts ranging from the present —who’s going to make the the playoffs this season —- to the great stars of his childhood, like Raiders receiver Fred Biletnikoff. Nothing better to do and this [...]
Correspondence from the Perdue Campaign to the State Board of Elections revealed that there are 6 more flights that were previously unreported. Four of the newly reported flights (2 in 2004, 1 in 2005 and 1 in 2006) were provided by Raleigh attorney Terence McEnally III. McEnally bought the local newspaper La Conexion in [...]
R.C. Soles Jr., a N.C. State Senator from Tabor City will be indicted by a grand jury. This was reported in the News and Observer today.
The grand jury wrote in its presentment that it had reason to believe that Soles had committed a crime:
Twelve or more grand jurors concur [...]
A grand jury in Columbus County has found probable cause to indict state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury in connection with an August shooting at Soles' Tabor City home.
Soles, 74, a Democrat, is the longest-serving [...]
Gov. Bev Perdue's campaign disclosed today that it did not properly report or pay for five more flights since 2004.
The disclosure follows her report in August that the campaign had issued checks to pay for 17 flights that had gone unreported.
Former Gov. Mike Easley is the subject of federal and state [...]
About half of North Carolina voters remain happy with the job President Barack Obama is doing, according to a new poll.
The Civitas Institute surveyed 600 likely voters Dec. 1-3, and found that 48 percent had a favorable opinion of Obama. That is down from earlier in the [...]
Folks in the state progressive community should take note today of the ten-year anniversary of the reform coalition known as N.C. Voters for Clean Elections. The group, whose director Chase Foster is a regular contributor to the Progressive Pulse, has produced an impressive and [...]
From the National Association of Free Clinics event going on now in Kansas City, MO:
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(Update 2: Word from Ron Margiotta is, there will be no controversial issues on the COW agenda Tuesday. Staff is putting it together, his email says, but he’s sure diversity will not be part of it. Hence all the x-outs below where it used to say otherwise, [...]
I’ve been putting off writing this post for a couple weeks now, thinking my inklings overblown. But when I read my old friend Rick Henderson’s account of the latest abuse of power by state government, well, there is just nothing else to say but this:
Facts do not matter any [...]
Secretary of Transportation Gene Conti said his agency has not communicated well on the new financing plan for the I-485 loop around Charlotte.
The plan calls for the contractor to front $50 million of the $340 million cost. Conti emphasized that, if the contractor borrows its [...]
Editor & Publisher is closing down. It thrived for nearly 99 years, but it took current editor Greg Mitchell only eight years to run it into the ground with his lefty agenda pushing:
The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication.
Editor & Publisher [...]
What goes around comes around: Andrew Young is scheduled to talk about his tell-all book Jan. 29 on ABC's 20-20 with Bob Woodruff.
Last August on ABC's "Nightline," Edwards categorically denied to Woodruff that he fathered Rielle Hunter's baby, Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer.
"Absolutely not true," [...]
Impeach him for the highly public tickling of the fat potato-finger of lust? Not so much.
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr does not plan to return his "blue slip" on U.S. attorney nominee Thomas Walker until the current investigations into two of the state’s most prominent Democrats are completed.
Burr informed President Barack Obama of his decision through the White House counsel’s office, Barb [...]
I was surprised to receive a phone call from the Kenneth Lewis campaign a couple of weeks ago; I knew a few things about the Durham attorney, who has jumped into the U.S. Senate race to dislodge Richard "Bank Run" Burr from his seat -- 1) he [...]
Talking Points Memo picks up on some spilled acid from Madam Foxx's recent interview with the Winston-Salem Journal. Democrats have no ideas, sez she, so they talk about character, including, we assume, hers.The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on the nominations of two North Carolina judges for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judges Albert Diaz and Jim Wynn will appear before the committee at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
The hearing offers senators the chance to question the nominees [...]
A tiny sliver of reality.
Bloomberg reports that Wells Fargo is dealing with the $120b. option ARM hangover Wells got when the bank took over Wachovia’s attempts to handle the Golden West “pick-a-payment” Ponzi scheme by simply writing down up 30 percent of the loan principal. In other words, Ken [...]
A new lawsuit challenging the Titan permitting process reveals the absurdly weak case being put forth by the Department of Administration. The Wilmington Star News has the story.
Read more [...]Some think the arrogance of the mainstream press is a recent thing. Not so. Check out this from a 1920 editorial ridiculing one of the pioneers of rocketry:
That Professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of [...]
