Monthly Archives: August 2008
The unanswerable lottery question
The short and telling special interest session
Be careful driving near the coast this Labor Day weekend, especially if you are one of the many two-lane roads in Eastern North Carolina. You could be run off the road by a trailer towing a boat that’s a good bit wider than its lane. [Continue Reading...]
Big boat baloney
Lawmakers return to Raleigh for an inexplicable special session
State legislators return to Raleigh today for one of the strangest special sessions in the history of North Carolina. Just over a month after adjourning the 2007-’08 session for good and heading home to prepare for 2009, lawmakers are now rushing back from all over the country to consider overriding a gubernatorial veto of an ill-conceived bill to, of all things, expand the width of boats that can be towed at will on the state highways.
Number of Tar Heels without health insurance rises
Tar Heels no better off in 2007 than 2000
Running Out of Money, Cities Are Debating the Privatization of Public Infrastructure
Fate of boat-towing bill vetoed by Easley in legislators’ hands
New numbers about struggling families
Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday show thousands of families in North Carolina are no better off than they were seven years ago, and many are having a harder time making ends meet. [Continue Reading...]
