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ACLU files suit over Choose Life plates

The ACLU announced this morning that it has filed suit against the state over the Choose Life license plates adopted in the regular session this [...]
September 8, 2011 | Posted in: Courts, Health Care, Legislation | 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

Fracking updates

Lisa Sorg has another piece out on the fracking of NC. This one deals with the lease agreements. He overview story from a few issues [...]
May 27, 2011 | Posted in: Current Events, Energy, Environment, Legislation | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

DENR cuts — a receipts-supported agency?

One aspect of the budget proposal that is troublesome is a move to require most of DENR’s workforce to be supported by either matching federal [...]
May 19, 2011 | Posted in: Budget, DENR, Environment, Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Amazonia

It looks like Amazon’s affiliate program shut down in NC is part of a long running battle between local and state govs and the mail [...]
June 30, 2009 | Posted in: Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Battle over immigration and higher education

Conflicting approaches to immigration and higher education on the agenda for the legislature. H362 instructs the community college and UNC systems not to implement any [...]
March 3, 2009 | Posted in: Immigration, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Collective bargaining

Senator Shaw does the honors and introduces S178, which would repeal 95-98, which would clear the way for collective bargaining for state and local government [...]
February 17, 2009 | Posted in: Economy, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Oh noes! NC has the lowest business tax burden in the country.

Those commies over at Ernst & Young have put the state — yes, this one here — at the bottom of the list in terms [...]
February 13, 2009 | Posted in: Economy, Legislation | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink