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HB 48: first step toward a better testing program
HB 48 is a bipartisan bill that would eliminate statewide standardized testing, “except as required by federal law or as a condition of a federal grant.” The next step would…
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Annexation reform is just a Moonwalk
The annexation reform bill, HB 524 is finally only on the House floor today. With such a tightly written title, it is virtually impossible to amend the bill without changing…
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Improvements to annexation referendum fails
Rep Nelson Dollar (R-Wake) proposes an amendment that would lower the referendum trigger from 15 percent to 5 percent to city residents. And from those in area being annexed from…
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Imperfect as it is – Referendum stays as part of annexation reform
The House Appropriations Committee takes up House Bill 524, annexation – omnibus changes aka annexation reform bill. Former chair of the League of Municipalities, Rep Lucy Allen, (D-Franklin) has an…
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Don’t touch that well!
According to the latest report from the North Carolina Drought Management Council, thirteen counties remain classified under extreme drought conditions, fifteen under severe conditions and twenty-eight under moderate drought conditions. …
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Let North Carolina decide
As the energy crisis continues, so does the debate about off shore drilling. From Charles Krauthammer?s editorial yesterday, ??drilling requires no government program, no newly created bureaucracy, no pie-in-the-sky technologies…
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How (literally) did Edwards do it?
Sitting at the stoplight today on the I-85 Southmont offramp, I looked across the road and took note of the Highway 8 Motel and couldn’t help but think about John…
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House votes on the budget too
The House vote on the final budget, House Bill 2436 was 97 yes; 21 no Those voting yes: Adams (D-Guilford); Alexander, K. (D-Mecklenburg); Alexander, M. (D-Mecklenburg); Allen (D-Franklin, Halifax,…
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Who voted to make the forced annexation moratorium a real moratorium?
Earlier today Rep. Bruce Goforth?s (D-Buncombe) annexation amendment to House Bill 2367 put the teeth back in the bill and made it a real moratorium. Check previous posts for details.…
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If you did it, you can undo it.
All the world knows now about the Randy Parton Theatre (thanks to our own Don Carrington’s exclusive series) and how the taxpayers in Roanoke Rapids have been taken for a…
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Hey, maybe it really was a Mad Lib!
The news about Paris Hilton yesterday was so bizarre I thought it read like a Mad Lib. Today the Associated Press has issued a correction: In a Nov. 13 story,…
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Celebrity Mad Libs
Save the Blanks 1. A celebrity’s name: ___________2. A type of activist (plural): ___________3. A species of animal (plural): ___________4. A direction: ___________5. A foreign country: ___________6. Last name of…