Appointments, Speakers, Odds and Ends
Before 2006 can slip away, a few things in the ol’ mailbag to note:
Update (12/31): For those finding their way here from
This story on creating an state-level earned income tax, welcome. For prior posts on this topic: click here.
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- This purports to be a new website to keep an eye on a certain friendly local presidential candidate. (Click here.) We’ll keep a watch on it.
- Gov. Mike Easley has appointed Mary Lou Andrews Blakeney of High Point to the North Carolina Council on Sickle Cell Syndrome. From the news release:
Blakeney is a retired nurse. She is a member of the Grand Conclave of Nurses, Inc., a board member at the Department of Public Health in Guilford County and board member at the United Way of Greater High Point. Blackeney received her nursing certificate from Grand Memorial Hospital in Georgia.
- The legislative black caucus has apparently made its pick for Speaker. From an e-mail sent out this afternoon:
The African American Members of the NC House of Representatives met on December 20, 2006 to decide the impact they wanted to have on key leadership roles in the House. During the meeting, they voted to be ruled by a unit vote. After the discussion, the members voted on the nominees for Speaker of the House and Speaker Pro Tem. Representative Dan Blue (Wake County) received the majority votes for Speaker of the House and Representative William Wainwright (Craven County) received the majority votes for Speaker Pro Tem.
This by no means guarantees Blue the speakership, but it certainly gives him a big block of votes going into the Jan. 10 Democratic caucus meeting.
Okay, that’s it. I’m taking the rest of the year off. Barring necessary updates to this post, an outbreak of mammoth news – mammoth as in big and breaking, not as in actual mammoths running amok, although that would probably qualify as mammoth news itself – I’ll see you back here first thing next year with the return of the Raleigh Dispatch column.
Happy New Year.
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