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  • CSS Folks!

    Scrutiny Hooligans

    Hiya Hooligans. We’re working on the next incarnation of our website, and we’re hunting folks who know and love CSS to work with the web team. If you’d like to throw a few hours our way to make the Gordon Smith for City Council web presence teh awesomes, click here and [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:59pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith
  • 2009 NC Session to date

    Drafting Musings

    Some stats on the 2009 Regular Session of the North Carolina General Assembly as of July 2, 2009, with some comparisons to 2007: Session Laws enacted by 7/2/2009:  272 (Of the 272 acts, 182 were signed into law by the Governor, the other 89 were local acts that do not require gubernatorial approval and [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 6:55pm EDT
    by gercohen
  • The "Vote" Charade

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Here's a Q & A on how the annexation vote would work (as passed by the House Finance Committee): Q: How many signatures have to be collected to get a vote? A: It requires 15% of the total registered voters of the municipality plus annexed area. Let's take Raleigh as an example. It [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:53pm EDT
  • Weekend open thread

    BlueNC blogs

    Use this thread to keep the conversation going over this welcome long weekend. For those in need of some patriotic festivities, please join us on Saturday from 4 to 7 in Chapel Hill. We'll have barbecue, tea and lemonade, and are asking folks to bring a side dish or' [...]

    Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:02pm EDT
    by James
  • Re: Were the Founders Greedy?

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Indeed. As I argued in the last month's Carolina Journal (print edition), McDonald argued convincingly in We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (1958) that the founders were not greedy. He put forth this argument because he had studied each Constitutional Convention... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 4:39pm EDT
  • The Gender Justice Act

    Red Clay Citizen

        "Today, Governor Bev Perdue signed into law the Gender Justice Act. This new act will allow men on death row to challenge the judicial system of North Carolina on the basis of Sexism. Men that have been sentenced to capital punishment will be able to use data and other [...]

    Posted: July 02, 2009, 4:09pm EDT
    by Zach McMichael
  • Re: Staying on board

    JLF > The Locker Room

    I was working as a publisher's representative at the National Black Home Educators conference last weekend and I heard the same sentiments, which I have also heard here in North Carolina from families who were totally wiped out by Hurricane Floyd. They may have to live in substandard housing and [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
  • Starshining again

    Under the Dome blog

    Legislators consumed with gloomy financial news took a few moments to recognize the North Carolina pop singer from the '60s famous for "Good Morning Starshine."

    Lawmakers honored William Oliver Swofford, known as Oliver and namesake of the first annual "Oliverfest" in his native Wilkes County two weeks ago. Swofford's [...]

    Posted: July 02, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
    by markjohnson
  • Were the Founders Greedy?

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Burt Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College, reviews the debate over Charles Beard's 1913 book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States in this Freeman article. You may recall that Columbia historian Charles Beard, a... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
  • Sotomayor Polling

    Public Policy Polling

    I think it's interesting that Rasmussen's poll yesterday showing just 37% of the country in support of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court hasn't received more attention.

    We've only polled on Sotomayor in North Carolina but we found pretty similar numbers, with 39% favoring Senate approval [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
  • Improving GTA

    EdCone.com

    I think Ryan Shell is onto something with his idea about increasing the number of bus shelters and benches. More data needed on the specifics, but the general notion that public transportation should offer a certain quality of experience is... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:46pm EDT
    by Ed Cone
  • Cutting back

    EdCone.com

    Some ways people are saving money. We need a bigger shift, a change in the culture to the point where people don't buy stuff they don't need even when they have credit, because they recognize thrift as a value and... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
    by Ed Cone
  • Dome meltdown

    BlueNC blogs

    As some of you may know, I've been a frequent visitor and fan of the Under the Dome blog at the N&O since its inception. Indeed, I doubt there is another person who has done more to promote their site with links and commentary than I have. In recent months,' [...]

    Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:06pm EDT
    by James
  • Head of Water Rights Committee resigns

    This Old State

    Number of comments: 2
    The head of the N.C. Water Rights Committee, Raleigh City Council member Nancy McFarlane, has resigned. It apparently was related to the committee head's reluctance to answer questions recently when Carolina Journal inquired about the group, which opposes a new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for Alcoa Power Generating Inc. [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
    by Jack Betts
  • This should really frighten Obama

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Apparently, the media is coming out of its trance. According to this piece Helen Thomas says that Obama is worse than Richard Nixon in trying to manipulate and control the media. Hey, Helen -- why don't you ask Obama (or that clueless puppet Gibbs) what the administration is... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:59am EDT
  • Let's not rejoin this list

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Former JLF Shaftesbury speaker and Tax Foundation analyst Joe Henchman has the recently updated list of states with income tax rates of 8.0% or more. Like the House proposed, some of these states have multiple brackets in the... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:59am EDT
  • Thoughts on Annexation Charade

    JLF > The Locker Room

    I think many legislators think their constituents are stupid. How else to describe this morning's House Finance Committee? Approval of a vote: As I mentioned before, don't be surprised if a vote (and nothing else that is worth anything) is passed in committee with full knowledge by some legislators that a [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  • Is Decker more deserving of a break than Black?

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Scott Sexton of the Winston-Salem Journal raises a noteworthy point about Michael Decker being more deserving of leniency than Jim Black. Black's lawyer has recently called for him either to be released early (his scheduled release date is 2012) or be moved to a... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:50am EDT
  • RE: Mystery group

    JLF > The Locker Room

    The entire story grows more and more bizarre. The address of the pharmacy services company Nancy McFarlane owns also serves as the HQ for the N.C. Water Rights Committee (or at least it did as of the time the N&O went to press late last night). And yet McFarlane was [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:48am EDT
  • John Stossel on Obamacare

    JLF > The Locker Room

    In pitching his plan for a "public option" (which is to say, the gradual federal takeover of most if not all health care), our Beloved Leader has said that opponents will just resort to scare tactics. In this column John Stossel shows exactly why we should be scared. Politicizing health care [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:29am EDT
  • I can see clearly now

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Those of you in a certain age group are now humming a Johnny Nash tune in your head (and cursing me for reminding you of the song). Others might be happy to learn about the unveiling of NCTransparency.com. Joe Coletti discusses it below. [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:49am EDT
  • Challengers in W-S mayor’s race?

    Piedmont Publius

    Forsyth County GOP chair Nathan Tabor says two local Republicans are “95 percent of the way” toward challenging Allen Joines in the upcoming mayor’s race. It’s going to cost some money, though, as Joines’ campaign already has a nice stash. But everyone knows Republicans have all the money, right?

    Note, [...]

    Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by SamH
  • Fast Food Nation

    WataugaWatch

    Like the pudgy surviving remnants of the human race in WALL-E, we're addicted to our corn-syrup and fatty fried injections.

    Which is to say, the new obesity numbers are out for the United States, and North Carolina is now ranked the 12th most obese' [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 9:48am EDT
    by J.W. Williamson
  • Annexation debate continues

    JLF > The Locker Room

    The House Finance Committee meets this morning to consider amendments to House Bill 524. This is the only chance to amend the bill. Pursuant to a House rule, once the bill goes to the floor, no amendments will be accepted that change the title to the bill. This title has [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:54am EDT
  • Notes on New Jersey

    Public Policy Polling

    -Barack Obama's approval in New Jersey might not be as good as it was earlier in the year, but it's still to Jon Corzine's definite advantage to have the President campaign for him. Among voters who approve of Obama's job performance Corzine is currently leading Chris Christie 70-20...winning over most [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:51am EDT
  • Michael Barone on the Ricci case

    JLF > The Locker Room

    Michael Barone's column today on the Ricci case is excellent. The Court's decision isn't really his focus, but rather the ugly background of the case. The heart of the matter was that a black activist in New Haven threw a fit when the firefighter promotion exam proved too... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:44am EDT
  • Did abortion reduce crime rates?

    JLF > The Locker Room

    In Freakonomics, John Donohue and Steven Levitt argued that legalized abortion led to a dramatic decline in crime during the 1990s. A new NBER paper by Theodore J. Joyce of Baruch College finds little evidence to support the Donohue/Levitt hypothesis. Donohue and Levitt's presentation of the evidence relied too much on... [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:33am EDT

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