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Monthly Archives: June 2011

What’s in a name

Now that the General Assembly is preparing to head home, I’m wondering what to call this session. It was certainly historic. It was certainly partisan. [...]
June 16, 2011 | Posted in: Dispatches | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Burning the bridge to the 21st Century

This month’s print column in the Indy is a bit of a catch-all, written in the heat of the clusterf^%k at the end of the [...]
June 16, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, General Assembly | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Shifting sands under Jones Street

Update: According to a tweet by WRAL’s NC Capitol, Bill Ownes says he’s going to vote for the override. Sometime on Tuesday, we’re very likely [...]
June 13, 2011 | Posted in: 2012 Elections, Budget, Current Events, Elections, General Assembly | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Chavis to run in primary against Party of Five’s Crawford?

A lot going on in the wake of the governor’s veto of the budget, including talk of Rev. Ben Chavis running against Rep. Crawford in [...]
June 13, 2011 | Posted in: 2012 Elections, General Assembly | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Four groins for the coast

Star-News is reporting that a deal has been struck to allow construction of four terminal groins on the coast. Negotiations started with a wide gap [...]
June 9, 2011 | Posted in: Environment, Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Vote on ethics, election finance reporting merger passes 15-11

Long, testy debate on a bill moving around departments that deal with lobbying, ethics and campaign finance reporting ends in a close vote. Opponents say [...]
June 8, 2011 | Posted in: Current Events, Elections, NCHouse | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Let’s hear it for transparency

Updated: Strange version of a late Friday news dump but apparently the House Republicans held their strategy discussion with an open mike in the room [...]
June 3, 2011 | Posted in: 2012 Elections, Courts, NCHouse, Redistricting | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

A shabby moment

I happened to be in the Senate gallery yesterday to witness the brief discussion on the state budget compromise worked out between the Senate and [...]
June 2, 2011 | Posted in: Budget, NCSenate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink