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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Speech of the Week

This week’s Speech of the Week was a pretty easy pick. So, no need to wait until the weekend to put it out there. Rep. [...]
January 25, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Speech of the Week | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Stay up on the stay

Mark Kleinschmidt is doing an excellent job of keeping us up-to-date on the order halting executions in North Carolina. Here’s his blog and the link [...]
January 25, 2007 | Posted in: Administration, Courts, Current Events, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hackney elected speaker

Audio excerpts from Speaker Hackney’s opening remarks. With 68 votes, Joe Hackney of Orange County has been elected Speaker of the North Carolina House of [...]
January 24, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Progressive Pulse

The good peeps at NC Policy Watch have a new blog to keep an eye on. Name: The Progressive Pulse From the Hello World! post: [...]
January 23, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Media, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Legislators call on Governor to stop executions

Via Sen. Kinnaird: A group of legislators delivered a letter to Gov. Easley this afternoon asking for suspension of executions. Here’s the text: Dear Governor [...]
January 23, 2007 | Posted in: Administration, Courts, Current Events, Misc, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

GA A/V club

Couple of interesting hearings on the list for today: The Revenue Laws Study Committee tops the list of hearings this morning. The 9:30 am meeting [...]
January 23, 2007 | Posted in: Audio, Misc | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

PAC donations soar

We all knew when the new numbers on PAC donations came out, it would be pretty stunning. Well, here they are—fresh from DemocracyNC: PAC DONATIONS [...]
January 22, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Elections, Media | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Ella

Sorry to geek outloud, but the new version of WordPress has spellcheck and a bunch of other lovely items. I are saved. Can’t wait to [...]
January 22, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Media | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink