Archive for August, 2008
The unanswerable lottery question
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
The short and telling special interest session
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Be 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.
Big boat baloney
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Lawmakers 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
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Tar Heels no better off in 2007 than 2000
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Running Out of Money, Cities Are Debating the Privatization of Public Infrastructure
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Fate of boat-towing bill vetoed by Easley in legislators’ hands
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008New numbers about struggling families
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Numbers 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.
