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• Ruffin Poole still ain't talkin'

  —JLF > The Locker Room

  At this afternoon's State Board of Elections hearing on the Easley scandals, former Easley general counsel declined to testify. He even declined to be sworn in by the board. Poole had his subpoena quashed by a district judge in October, citing a privilege that has never been publicly disclosed. That [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 4:21pm EST
  

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• A 6th grader who doesn't "hide the decline"

  —JLF > The Locker Room

  Are the top scientist involved in Climategate smarter than a 6th grader? Clearly he is, the 6th grader just knows how to gather the data and present it as it is. The top scientists uses much more sophisticated statistical methods and are therefore able to "hide the decline." Read... [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:27am EST
  

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• NCAR Numbers Update

  —STOP The NC Home Ticks

  NCAR membership numbers are on the decline again after a brief but mediocre summer rally since the 2009 low of 36,696 in March. Membership for November stood at 36,895 down 194 since October and, down 4,149 since the November 2008 roll of 41,044. If the same monthly drop occurs in [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:59pm EST
  

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• Charlotte/Douglas boarding down 1%

  —Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal

  The number of passengers boarding planes at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport declined 1 percent in October from the same month a year earlier. [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

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• Other politicians losing popularity too

  —Public Policy Polling

  Barack Obama's approval slide has received all the attention, but he's far from alone among politicians in seeing their popularity decline over the course of 2009.
  
  Let's look at his approval and the favorabilities of Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Sarah Palin from our first 2012 poll conducted back [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  

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• Notes on Delaware Politicians

  —Public Policy Polling

  -Jack Markell's approval rating is now 40/31, down from a 62/17 mark when PPP polled the state in March. On the surface that may look like a disastrous decline. But Markell's high early numbers came during his honeymoon period as Governor and now after almost a year in office it's' [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:18am EST
  

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• Employers announced 50,000 job cuts in November — and that’s good news

  —Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal

  It may offer little comfort to those affected by the Charlotte region's 12 percent unemployment rate. But two separate labor reports released Wednesday suggest that corporate layoffs are on the decline. [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:59pm EST
  

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• No word on investigations

  —Under the Dome blog

  

  HOLDING ON HOLD: The Obama administration declined to say Tuesday whether Republican U.S. Attorney George Holding will be allowed to complete his investigations into two of North Carolina's most prominent Democrats, former Gov. Mike Easley and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards. U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat from [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:35am EST
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• Shifts in Palin's numbers

  —Public Policy Polling

  Sarah Palin's favorability numbers peaked in our polling on a couple of July polls right after she announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska then saw a steady decline until last month when they saw a small up tick. In the two July surveys she was at 46/45 and 47/45 [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:38pm EST
  

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• H1N1 ‘widespread’ in North Carolina

  —Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal

  Outbreak of the H1N1 flu remains widespread in North Carolina, even as the number of cases being reported nationwide continues to decline. [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

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• Stonewalled by the School of the Arts

  —JLF > The Locker Room

  Officials at the UNC School of the Arts have declined to participate in the joint John Locke/Pope Center panel Thursday, Dec. 3, "Taxpayers and Arts Education." As I stated earlier, the Pope Center will be releasing a paper, "The UNC School of the Arts: Should It Be Self-Supporting?" We asked [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:26am EST
  

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• Climategate: the musical

  —JLF > The Locker Room

  This is a must see You Tube musical on Climategate sung to "Dragin the Line." This version is called "Hide the Decline." [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  

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• “Hide the Decline”

  —Right Angles

  An instant classic based on the Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Draggin’ the Line”:

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:27am EST
  by Jon Ham

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• Where Obama's really dropping

  —Public Policy Polling

  When talking about the decline in Barack Obama's approval numbers the media usually focuses on independents, or whether he's losing his base. The biggest reason his numbers are going down right now though is not related to either of those things- it's because he's losing whatever small amount of bipartisan [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  

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• N.C. loses 6,600 construction jobs

  —Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal

  North Carolina’s construction industry lost 6,600 jobs in October, a 3.4 percent decline from the number of jobs it had in September. [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:01am EST
  

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• Mortgage apps, housing starts fall

  —Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal

  Recent enthusiasm for the housing market appears to be waning as mortgage applications and new-home construction decline. [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

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• Study: N.C. budget relatively healthy

  —Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal

  North Carolina’s fiscal woes are half as bad as those in California, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trust. The organization gathered data from each state on revenue declines, budget gaps, unemployment, foreclosure rates and fiscal management. The states received a scored based on the results. [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:20am EST
  

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