Exile on Jones Street Logo Image

Legislation

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

Price wants to repeal Military Commissions Act

Changes being made. Seems we may return to the idea of rule of law. This from Rep. Price’s office: Price Introduces Bill to Restore the [...]
January 15, 2009 | Posted in: Legislation | Tags: , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

TWC: Where the rubber meets the road

From this week’s column, some thoughts about incentivising folks The General Assembly is contemplating a return engagement in Raleigh next week with the intent of [...]
September 8, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Economy, Governor, Legislation, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hide the kids

The legislature is coming back to town to square off with the Governor over corporate incentives. Pardon me if I don’t shout hoo-rray. I wish [...]
August 31, 2007 | Posted in: Governor, Legislation, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Tomorrow, today

From this week’s editorial in The Carrboro Citizen: Tomorrow, today As noted previously on our opinion page, this has not been a particularly swell couple [...]
July 8, 2007 | Posted in: Environment, Legislation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Farm bill fight is on

Vastly different House and Senate versions of the reauthorization of the federal farm bill. The big issue is funding for conservation programs. Senate, yes. House, [...]
June 2, 2007 | Posted in: Current Events, Environment, Legislation, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink