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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Sunday morning post

Good morning. It is summerish here in the Piedmont. Here are list and links to various items from around the state. • Kissell catches a [...]
June 27, 2010 | Posted in: Current Events, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Thoughtful school standards

Some very useful words published in The Daily Texan from UT grad and philosophy and political science professor David Williams on the new textbook standards [...]
June 20, 2010 | Posted in: Current Events, Education | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Watt fundraiser under scrutiny

The Hill reports that the Office of Congressional Ethics is looking why an amendment to financial regulatory reform legislation dealing with automobile dealers was withdrawn [...]
June 16, 2010 | Posted in: US House | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Chambers endorses Marshall

This from the Marshall campaign: Charlotte, N.C. – Julius Chambers, trailblazing legal advocate and civil rights icon, today announced his support for Secretary of State [...]
June 2, 2010 | Posted in: 2010 Elections, Politics, US Senate | Tags: , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Stop the cap on muni wireless

Good old backscratching-payback-whathaveyou in the NC Senate. Stop the Cap is on this and has some very good questions to bring up with your elected [...]
June 1, 2010 | Posted in: NCSenate, Tech | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

NC’s shadow congress

TPM has a nice interactive graphic up based on the recent lobbyist/fundraising report in written up in WaPo and elsewhere. The map graphic breaks down [...]
June 1, 2010 | Posted in: Congress, Lobbyists, Money | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Tuesday morning

Listening to BOC and reading the NC House budget.
June 1, 2010 | Posted in: Misc | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink