February 6, 2012
Live in Greensboro? Confused about which legislative district you’re going to vote in this year? Reps. Alma Adams and Pricey Harrison will be hosting a special meeting Monday, Feb. 13. More information after the jump.
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January 29, 2012
The subject line on an e-mail from House Speaker Thom Tillis Saturday: For IMMEDIATE Release: My letter of Resignation. Read on to find out why it’s not what it sounds like.
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January 25, 2012
Reps. Alma Adams, Pricey Harrison* and Maggie Jeffus, all Greensboro Democrats, were among the 33 state lawmakers to score 100 percent on Environment North Carolina's (link) legislative scorecard.
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January 18, 2012
From an ACLU of North Carolina news release today: "WASHINGTON. – The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will not review a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit finding that the Forsyth County, North Carolina, Board of Com...
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January 10, 2012
Among the many interesting questions raised by the bill that strips NCAE of its dues checkoff privilege (passed during last week's midnight madness session) is whether the NCAE was actually singled out. (Click here for background on the case now...
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December 16, 2011
Will next year’s elections run on time?That’s the question raised by the first hearing in the lawsuits filed against the North Carolina’s legislative and congressional redistricting plans. And it’s not a crazy thought: elections in...
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Noted in case it ever becomes relevant in another election context:
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House Speaker Thom Tillis took his town hall meeting show to High Point Thursday night. When I spoke to him afterward, I asked about plans to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of the Racial Justice Act repeal (link). Tillis sounded uncertain, saying that po...
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December 14, 2011
Gov. Bev Perdue has vetoed S9 (link), a bill that would have repealed much of the Racial Justice Act.
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December 8, 2011
Rep. Dale Folwell, a Winston-Salem Republican, says he will not run for re-election to House District 74 next year. He was first elected to the state House in 2005.
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December 6, 2011
House Speaker Thom Tillis spoke at a town hall meeting Monday night and, according to the Charlotte Observer, said he was ready to reverse a law that added five days to the school calendar. From the Observer (link):
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November 29, 2011
The Senate had, apparently, had enough last night.
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November 28, 2011
As expected, both the House and Senate gaveled into session Sunday night, and gaveled out almost immediately.
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November 20, 2011
Readers in Greensboro got two front page (link) Sunday stories from me today, but non-print subscribers have to use the e-edition to read them (link).
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November 17, 2011
When lawmakers adjourned their main session this summer, Rep. John Blust of Greensboro was the lone “no” vote.“I don’t think we should have gone home without capping the gas tax,” Blust told me at the time (link).
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