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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Getting close

On assignment in the mountains for the Mercury, but checking in on the deals going down. Deal on the landfill is for a year. Count [...]
July 27, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Legislation, Misc, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Landfill flackery

Aside from an outright typo that says the four new mega-landfills would add 126 tons of capacity, this morning’s story about the landfill lobbying gets [...]
July 26, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Environment, Legislation, NCSenate, Policy, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

About that mega-landfill on the Cape Fear

This morning, the AP picked up a story saying Speaker Jim Black says only about a dozen Democrats oppose the landfill moratorium. He mentions concern, [...]
July 25, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Legislation, NCSenate, Policy, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Landfill moratorium in trouble

Hate to harsh y’all’s mellow, but there’s lots of chatter on the landfill moratorium and how a mere 23 lobbyists may succeed in circumventing that [...]
July 24, 2006 | Posted in: Environment, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Culpepper, Norris pay a courthouse visit

WRAL and the Charlotte Observer are reporting that Meredith Norris and former Rep. Bill Culpepper were at the Terry Sanford Federal Building this morning. Culpepper’s [...]
July 19, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

This week’s column

Shipwrecked. Here’s the link at the Indy and here’s the text: Shipwrecked By Kirk Ross By all accounts I’ve read, Floyd Lupton was a good [...]
July 19, 2006 | Posted in: Columns | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Thanks, we’ll be here all week . . .

And all next week. No joke. It’s pretty clears there’s still a ton of work to do. I was reminded yesterday that last year’s technical [...]
July 19, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Speech of the Week — Wilma Sherrill’s farewell

Sherrill’s farewell With the close of the session comes the farewell speeches of departing legislators and as business drew to a close last week Rep. [...]
July 17, 2006 | Posted in: Speech of the Week | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink