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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 [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 27, 2006 Posted in: Current Events, Legislation, Misc, NCSenate Comments closed

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 [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 26, 2006 Posted in: Current Events, Environment, Legislation, NCSenate, Policy, Politics Comments closed

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, [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 25, 2006 Posted in: Current Events, Legislation, NCSenate, Policy, Politics Comments closed

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 [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 24, 2006 Posted in: Environment, Legislation Comments closed

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 [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 19, 2006 Posted in: Current Events Comments closed

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 [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 19, 2006 Posted in: Columns Comments closed

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 [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 19, 2006 Posted in: Current Events, NCSenate Comments closed

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. [...] Full Story, Permalink »
By kmr Jul 17, 2006 Posted in: Speech of the Week Comments closed