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BlueNC blogs: My primary lessons

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:31:09 -0500

Last year's US Senate primary wore the hell out of me. It was hard and ugly and full of many lessons. In a comment earlier today, Dan Besse, pointed to one of them.

Enough with the intraparty sniping! It's way too early to start that ... stuff. In fact, let's' [...]

The Progressive Pulse: Tisk-tisk

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:12:34 -0500

Chris Fitzsimon attended the Wake County School Board meeting and shares his perspectives on the strong-arm tactics used by the newly sworn-in members in his column entitled “The dismantling begins.”

In his commentary “The press conference before the cart,” Fitzsimon chastises Gov. Bev Perdue for promising what she can’t [...]

JLF > The Locker Room: Poll confirms consensus on global warming

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:06:00 -0500

A new Rasmussen poll confirms that there is indeed a consensus on the science of global warming. But it is not a consensus that the global cooling deniers will rush to embrace, i.e. the consensus of mostly government officials and [...]

Under the Dome blog: Second women's health amendment fails

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:57 -0500

The U.S. Senate took another vote on health care today, again on an amendment.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, proposed an amendment that would require insurers to follow doctors recomendations on which women’s preventive health services to cover, Barb Barrett reports.

Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr voted [...]

Civitas Review Online: 3 cheers for the new Wake School Board!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:19:24 -0500

Since Tuesday I have been reading and hearing (including Tuesday night) a steady stream of whining from unions, special interests and supporters of the status-quo about how the newly elected board members were taking actions not supported by the citizens of Wake County.

In August Civitas did a poll [...]

The Progressive Pulse: The Melody Keeps Haunting Me

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:57:09 -0500

Ben Bernanke went to the Hill and came down still on top. Is that a nursery rhyme? It’s a story as old as the best toddler tale and as familiar as one, too. Once again one of the people asleep at the wheel while the American economy went straight [...]

JLF > The Locker Room: Subsidizing the Arts

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:08:00 -0500

Today's joint JLF and J.W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy presentation by author Max Borders and panelists J. Peder Zane and John Hood raised a number of interesting and valid points. It has also generated much lively discussion, both during and [...]

Under the Dome blog: Lawyer: DOT can't borrow

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:51:22 -0500

A Charlotte-based lawyer hired by State Treasurer Janet Cowell's office concluded that the state Department of Transportation does not have authority to go into debt under its plan to complete I-485 around Charlotte.

Cowell's office released the opinion (see link below) Thursday as part of a public records request [...]

Charlotte Business News - Local Charlotte News | Charlotte Business Journal: Duke Energy to build large training facility in Kings Mountain

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:48:37 -0500

Duke Energy Corp. says it will build a 150,000-square-foot power-generation training center in Kings Mountain. (DUK) [...]

JLF > The Locker Room: A Better Way to Subsidize the Arts

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:07:00 -0500

At a headliner luncheon today, Max Borders argued that the UNC School of the Arts should be privatized because it fails to provide a public good (even using a generous definition of the term.) I agree. The UNCSA confers benefits almost exclusively to the few students who attend. At the... [...]