I’ve sorted through your comments and your emails and now I’m pleased to present your nominees. I’m changing the rules a bit from last year, so as you look over this fine list of the best the Carolinas has to offer, keep this in mind:
-You may now vote for THREE [...]
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx was one of just 12 House members and the only one from North Carolina to vote against a bill protecting freedom of the press worldwide, but her office says it was a procedural opposition rather than one based on the legislation’s merit.
The [...]
Is it true that our legislature is becoming more liberal/progressive? This article on the Progressive States Network website might help you with your answer.
The article praises our state legislature for passing a bill that will allow 16 and 17 year olds to register to vote.
The article states that “this [...]
A new poll shows that voters are almost evenly split on whether to vote for Democrats or Republicans in the legislature.
Public Policy Polling asked 593 North Carolina voters which party they would prefer if legislative elections were held today. According to the poll, 43 percent would vote Democratic, 42 [...]
Yesterday, the Democrats in the U.S. House voted to raise the nation’s debt ceiling from $12.1 trillion to $12.39 trillion resulting in an increase to $40,300 for every man, woman, and child in America. The very folks who rightly railed against the Bush deficits in 2006 have not surprisingly exposed [...]
The Washington Post and other lefties are upset with Rep. Larry Kissell, D-NC, for his vote against Obamacare. They seem to think that rather than represent his constituents he should represent the Daily Kos kids’ and the mainstream media’s legislative desires. Writes the WaPo:
What Kissell considers a principled stand [...]
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His vote against health care reform is dissected – and it isn’t pretty. Gary Pearce – and many in his district – think he’s made a big mistake.
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President Barack Obama has the approval of 48 percent of North Carolinians compared to 47 percent who disapprove of his job performance, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling.
PPP surveyed 593 North Carolina voters from Dec. 11-13.
On the issue of Obama's job approval, 5 [...]
AARP of North Carolina issued a press release rapping the Senate for voting against allowing the importation of prescription drugs from abroad. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan both voted against allowing drug reimportation.
Rising prescription drug prices are a major problem for people of all ages, [...]
Could a populist idea from the 1990s come back into debate today as a way to clean up corruption in government? According to our latest poll, yes.
73 percent of voters say they support term limits for members of the General Assembly. And when asked an open-ended question on what’s the [...]
JLF’s John Hood weighs in on the actions of the new Wake County school board. Predictably, the new conservative majority is being attacked for following through on the campaign promises voters overwhelmingly endorsed. Why the attacks?
Because these adversaries consider their position to be morally superior, and their role to [...]
Larry Kissell, the first-term Democrat representing the NC-8, voted against the health insurance bill which the U.S. House passed and which is several light years better than the hardened turd favored by Joe Lieberman and Barack Obama in the Senate.
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is neck-and-neck with a generic Democrat in a new poll released by Public Policy Polling.
PPP asked likely North Carolina voters who they would pick between Burr, a Republican, and an unnamed Democrat. The poll found that 42 percent would pick Burr [...]
Still burning over Rep. Larry Kissell's health care vote, some Democrats in North Carolina's 8th Congressional District are courting a Charlotte attorney to mount a primary challenge.
The courtee is Chris Kouri, a former Ivy League football player who ran for the seat in 2002, upsetting a better known Democrat [...]
No doubt newcomer Danny Thompson will be a force on the Greensboro City Council, but holdover Dianne Bellamy-Small will have to be watched more closely than ever. In addition to initiating the petty squabble over Thompson’s aquatic center vote, she consistently tried to cut off debate as the [...]
As Carolina Journal’s David Bass reports in this story, the new majority on the Wake County school board voted yesterday against taking bids for a performance audit of the system’s legal fees. They want a particular attorney — Thomas Farr — to do the work. While I like the [...]
There was a fair amount of speculation that newly-elected member Nancy Vaughan would be the swing vote as the Greensboro City Council reconsidered the proposed aquatic center at tonight’s meeting. Sure enough, Vaughan —drum roll please — was the difference in a tight 5-4 vote as the council re-confirmed [...]
