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Forrester fury

No doubt State Senator James Forrester will be playing the victim card any second now. The legislature’s chief proponent of amending the North Carolina constitution [...]
September 30, 2011 | Posted in: Civil Rights, NCSenate | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

WRAL live coverage of Senate abortion law debate

The NC Senate takes up several issues in what could be the last day of the special session, including H854, which imposes a 24 hour [...]
July 28, 2011 | Posted in: Dispatches, NCSenate | 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

Fracking, Offshore drilling bill passes NC Senate

After a brief debate the NC Senate has passed an energy bill that sets up offshore drilling and fracking for natural gas in NC. The [...]
May 10, 2011 | Posted in: Energy, Environment, NCSenate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Marc Basnight resigns

Longtime NC Senate leader Marc Basnight has resigned. Video via Mark Binker. Basnight 010410 from Mark Binker on Vimeo.
January 4, 2011 | Posted in: NCSenate | 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

Hagan announces recs for federal positions

Lots of familiar names on the list of Kay Hagan’s recommendations for federal appointments for NC including Jim Phillips and Hampton Dellinger. Here’s the release: [...]
July 10, 2009 | Posted in: Courts, NCSenate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hagan’s challenge

Editorial from this week’s paper: About 16 years ago, the state of Florida passed health care reforms that promised at least a beginning for universal [...]
June 26, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care, NCSenate | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink