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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

Hagan says renegotiate NAFTA

Senator Kay Hagan reminds a few folks in D.C. that she is indeed one of two U.S. Senators from North Carolina and that the NAFTA [...]
April 21, 2009 | Posted in: Economy, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Tax restructuring in the works

Services sales tax and some loophole closing seem to be boiling up from the Senate budget discussions. Good overview at ProgPulse.
April 7, 2009 | Posted in: Budget, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Senate stitching

I’m beginning to get the feeling that the state health care plan crisis and the secrecy surrounding the contracts are one end of a very [...]
March 31, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Here they come

This is that time in the cycle (short session in a federal election year) when people run bills through the General Assembly for purely political [...]
May 15, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, NCSenate, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Kinnaird running

Ellie Kinnaird is running for re-election. Here’s the announcement that was just sent out. announcement.pdf
October 23, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Elections, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

TWC: Trush and Consequences

Truth & consequences As promised, there’s been a step-up of immigration raids. This at a time when our junior senator is making the rounds of [...]
September 13, 2007 | Posted in: Columns, Current Events, NCSenate, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink