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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
