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Bill of the Day: Disapprove Jordan Lake Rules

HB3 wins the honors today for the audacity of nope. The bill would “disapprove” the Jordan Lake rules, which will require serious changes in stormwater [...]
February 10, 2009 | Posted in: Environment, Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Open meeting law’s digital makeover

The state’s rules on open meetings is updated to include email, web sites and so on. New language in underline. The bill, H81, was introduced [...]
February 9, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Pay teachers those ABC bonuses

Chosen for its line-in-the-sand approach in anticipation that teacher, like the rest of the state’s employees are going to take it on the chin this [...]
February 4, 2009 | Posted in: Legislation | Tags: , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Greenhouse gas credits for farmers

Rep. Bill Faison is sponsoring H28, a bill to study the idea of allowing farmers to receive credits under cap and trade. The study would [...]
February 3, 2009 | Posted in: Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Hunting on Sunday

Time to invest in a blaze orange vest. Senator Boseman has introduced Senate Bill 7, a bill to repeal the prohibition of hunting on Sunday. [...]
February 2, 2009 | Posted in: Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the day: No texting while driving

H9 : No Texting While Driving A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT to make it unlawful to use additional technology associated with a mobile [...]
January 30, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Holliman and 2nd hand smoke bill

Here’s an op-ed penned by Hugh Holliman on why he introduced a second hand smoke bill. The Davidson Democrat introduced the measure — the “Prohibit [...]
January 29, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care, Legislation, Policy | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Paging Senator Hagan

Just got this from the Justice Center: PLEASE CALL SENATOR KAY HAGAN, D-NC and ask her to vote for the SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance [...]
January 23, 2009 | Posted in: Legislation | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink