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Becki Gray To Legislature: Choose Low-Cost, Reliable, Environmentally-Friendly Energy
“Cost matters.” That is one of the key points made by Locke’s Becki Gray on Tuesday as she testified about House Bill 951 before the North Carolina Senate Agriculture, Energy, and…
Liberty
How to Search Campaign Finance Reports in North Carolina
Now that the first campaign finance reports of the year have been submitted to the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE), how does one find political action committee (PAC)…
Liberty
Poem That Creatively Blends Sentimentalism and Elitism Celebrates Obama’s Birthday
Happy Birthday Mr. President by Harry Seymour The Vinyard Gazette Monday, August 2, 2021 The significance of age 60 Is to be young again Without the weight of youth So…
Transportation
Private Jets Jammed Martha’s Vineyard Airport for Obama’s Birthday Party
From an article published in The Vinyard Gazette: The Martha’s Vineyard Airport reported a major jam-up of private jet traffic over the weekend, much of it stemming from President Barack…
Health Care
Vaccine, Mask Mandates as a ‘Purge’ of GOP Voters
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist sees a partisan political angle in the latest bouts of mask and vaccine mandates. Myriad Republican lawmakers are standing idly by, letting their voters be…
Liberty
GOP Targets High-Profile Congressional Democrats
Kerry Picket reports for the Washington Examiner on Republican congressional leaders’ interest in taking away power from particular Democrats. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell top the list of Democratic…
Energy
Solar Farms Irk History Buffs in Virginia
Leif Le Mahieu writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a recent controversy involving solar farms. The field, known as Savage’s Station, owes its name to the at least 900…
Liberty
Unions’ Rank and File Not So Focused on the Woke
Bill McMorris writes at National Review Online about a split between labor unions’ leaders and rank-and-file members over the woke. Los Angeles schoolteacher Glenn Laird has been a union stalwart…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Leading Senator Wants to End Extended Federal Unemployment
Brittany Bernstein writes for National Review Online about a key Democrat who has no interest in extending federal unemployment benefits. Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) signaled on Saturday that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Jeff Moore reports for Carolina Journal Online about details of the N.C. House’s budget plan. Amy Cooke’s CJ Opinion explains how media failures provide an opportunity for Carolina Journal. A…
Elections & Public Integrity
2020 Census Problems Could Complicate Redistricting
Demographer Steven Ruggles has been pointing the problems out for some time (see here and here). He’s quoted in a recent AP report that also notes: Residents did not respond to a…
Elections & Public Integrity
County Cluster Bill is Impractical and Likely Violates NC Constitution
Members of the General Assembly will start debating today on the criteria they will use for drawing congressional and state legislative maps. An important part of the process of drawing…