Who’s the biggest Jackass of 2009? Respond to this post or email me at press7forceltic@carolinapoliticsonline.com with your nominations. Nominate as many people as you want!
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I wanted you to be one of the first to hear: Today I'm announcing my campaign for the United States Senate.
Right now, more than ever, the people of North Carolina need someone to fight -- to create jobs, strengthen our schools, improve veterans health care, and stand up' [...]
Six North Carolinians died on the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941, according to the Pearl Harbor casualty database:
William Teasdale Durham
Malcolm Hedrick Leigh
Albert Wesley Pinkham
Mark Alexander Rhodes
Kermit Braxton Stallings
Lloyd Harold Tussey
The database allows you to search the names of casualties at every other [...]
You expected anything else?
Let’s start with unsuccessful Greensboro City Council candidate Gary Nixon’s op-ed refuting the argument —- expressed in another LTE in today’s paper —– that the city needs to move on the proposed aquatic center quickly in order to take advantage of a favorable economic climate:
The [...]
Here is a number that the members of the legislative oversight committee on mental health and developmental disabilities might to want review at their meeting this week.
More than half the people who leave state mental hospitals are not contacted at all in the crucial first week after their [...]
The Island Gazette has more about local police officer Darrell Collins accusing Carolina Beach Councilman Dan Wilcox of stalking and assaulting him:
Collins alleged Wilcox assaulted him by placing both hands on his chest and pushing him. Additionally, Collins alleged that Wilcox followed, or was in his presence, on more [...]
The Racial Justice Act, which sounded so good in theory to many liberals, will soon be applied to real-life death penalty cases:
A judge is scheduled to hear motions Tuesday on three pending first-degree-murder cases that ask that the start of each trial be delayed until after a study [...]
Us drive-by media types are faulted for writing about “he-said-she-said.” That may not be a problem for long. The mere existence of this article indicates there is significant support for stopping him and her from saying.
[...]I truly believe that we, as a nation, must do whatever we can to help control climate change when possible. However, we have a problematic situation in our country with regard to importing foreign oil and until there is an energy alternative available to us, we need to do what [...]
Just finished a video that my good friend and long time collaborator Rick Fitts and I shot earlier in the fall. North Carolina residents speak to their elected representatives on health care reform. "Faces For Reform" a film by Rick Fitts and John Autry.
Please view, rate and share. Use the [...]
Sen. Dick Burr has taken $274,586 in campaign contributions from the health insurance industry throughout his career, which certainly helps explain his dependable shilling for the health insurance industry in trying to defeat health insurance reforms in the U.S. Senate:Dozens of supporters of President Barack Obama will gather in Raleigh and Charlotte Saturday for training in ways to support Obama on issues such as health care and in future elections.
The workshops are designed to train volunteers to lead "Rapid Response Teams" that can activate people to lobby Congress [...]
My wife got a letter from Senator Burrs when she wrote to inquire about his misguided enthusiasm for abstinence only sex education.
I believe it is important that we promote safe and healthy choices to our children, as well as focus on protecting them from abuse and teaching them to reject [...]
Earlier this week we learned state spending for Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income families, senior citizens and the disabled, is $160 million over budget so far this fiscal year.
While the demand for services continues to grow, John Tote of the Mental Health Association in North Carolina, describes [...]
DURHAM — Democratic Senate candidate Kenneth Lewis criticized Republican Sen. Richard Burr’s position on health care legislation Thursday, saying he was part of the Washington establishment that had blocked efforts to make health care more affordable.
I’m not trying to defend Burr because his performance in the [...]
Many people have asked me if the random checks of state workers conducted by the State Health Plan will detect only cigarette use or all tobacco products including cigars.
I didn’t know — so I put the question to my toxicologist friend last night (she has an actual [...]
Story here. Reasonable people agree that precautions should be taken to keep psychologically impaired individuals from buying guns. In the enduring debate over gun regulation, this has been one area of consensus. That's why it is difficult to fathom legislation proposed by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) that would make [...]
In this piece, JLF’s Terry Stoops and my favorite chipmunks debunk one of the most persistent school funding myths around. Here’s how per-pupil funding really works in our state.
Alvin (+$5,511) is a disadvantaged student (+$235) who comes from a low-income family (+$356) and lives in a low-wealth county (+$268). [...]
Walter Rodgers, previously of CNN, now writes a regular column for the Christian Science Monitor. As a longtime Monitor reader, I find his work at best tolerable. His latest column, filed from Wilmington, is far from his best. It is quite possibly the most ludicrous piece I’ve read in [...]
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 [...]
