Ed Cone gives thanks for Sen. Kay Hagan, who (he says) “has done a good job so far.”
If you’d like to call Sen. Hagan and tell her what a good job she’s been doing, don’t bother. For some reason, her voicemail is full.
Update Speaking of Sen. Hagan, [...]
And the only inkling of job growth is from….government jobs. Ta-da!.
We are well on our way to permanently crushing private sector job creation in much of the country — including North Carolina.
But I’m more convinced than every that we will stay on this path unless and until 1) [...]
Facepalm.
That’s the Gray Lady folks, suddenly figuring out that high unemployment rates just might — might mind you — have something to do with the “new wave of foreclosures” out there. We’ve been trying to point this connection out, especially with regard to the housing market in Charlotte, for [...]
The Swain County Commissioners declared their county a Recovery Zone. County Manager Kevin King wanted the declaration so the county could be eligible for a $1.9 million interest-free loan from the $12 trillion national debt. The loan would pay for job creation. Said King:
We don’t know right now if [...]
Former NC State Chancellor James Oblinger has been passed over for the job of president of New Mexico State University. Oblinger lost out to Barbara Couture, the senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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More than 400 Dell employees worked their last shift yesterday.
But don’t worry, Winston-Salem has that prime driver of economic development —– the arts. I’m sure more than a few laid-off Dell employees can get jobs building those artistically creative bridges.
Once government funding comes through, that is.
[...]Heath Shuler: One of the reasons I have long supported the U.S. biotechnology industry is that it is a homegrown success story that has been an engine of job creation in this country and in my home state of North Carolina.
Oh, that's cool. But that sounds familiar...
Joe Wilson: One of' [...]
Martin Nesbitt isn’t known for toeing the party line. Over nearly three decades in the House and Senate, he has been a loyal lieutenant of some Democratic leaders and a thorn in the side of others.
But in his new job, the Asheville senator will try to keep 30 Senate Democrats [...]
I want my Congressional representatives to get busy. Sure, they’ve got their hands full with health reform, saving the economy, and – I hope – job creation measures, but I want them to stand up for me and my right to choose. Specifically, I want to choose to deny them [...]
North Carolina has not been left out in the phantom districts stimulus sweepstakes. It has six of the 440 phantom districts in which the Obama administration has claimed stimulus jobs were “saved or created”:
North Carolina has distributed more than $5.7 million in federal stimulus money to six congressional [...]
Sen. Kay Hagan held her regular Wednesday conference call with reporters this morning. The focus of her opening remarks was on jobs and the economy. She said that North Carolina's Employment Security Commission would be getting a $946,000 grant from the federal stimulus program. The grant will pay to catalogue [...]
Our friends at Watchdog.org have done a great job of exposing the shoddy recordkeeping and the awarding of stimulus funds to phantom congressional districts in various states. After reading the story, I did a little digging myself and learned some interesting things about stimulus funds in North Carolina. First, [...]
Have our elected representatives forgotten what their governmental role should be? Mostly we hear, or read, that they create jobs. For example, our governor, Bev Perdue, is “working to create jobs and build North Carolina’s economic future.” I thought that jobs and the “economic future” resulted from decisions [...]
President Obama’s policies are working for Raleigh. Eighty-seven jobs have been created at the Employment Security Commsion to deal with rampant unemployment:
So far this year, more than 54,000 benefits appeals have been filed. At that rate, David Clegg, the commission’s deputy chairman and chief operating officer, expects appeals will [...]
