Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Let's see, the Democratic presidential campaign is romping through the state, the candidates for governor on both sides are beating the snot out of each other and anything voted on after U.S. Senator is suddenly a "down-ballot" race. Oh, yeah, there's some excitement 'round here.
Meanwhile, the honorables are getting ready to come back to town on May 13 and the attention of us scruffy media types is focused elsewhere. That makes me a little nervous.
At any rate, just to clear out some of stuff crossing my desk not directly related to the May 6 primary:
- * News release: "Rep. Pricey Harrison is one of four members of the N.C. General Assembly recognized with an award of appreciation for Sustainable Energy Leadership by the State Energy Office. North Carolina energy and environmental professionals, and others who have supported energy sustainability, were presented with awards on April 8 at the fifth annual N.C. Sustainable Energy Conference."
- * AP: "A House committee wants to temporarily ban North Carolina cities and towns from forcing annexations until the Legislature can recommend changes to the law. A special House panel voted Wednesday to ask the entire chamber to back a moratorium on annexations through June 2009. That would give the committee time to make more details suggestions to improve annexation rules. Current rules allow cities and towns to force outside communities into their jurisdiction. Some citizens have complained during public hearings that they had little say when being incorporated into cities such as Goldsboro, Salisbury and Lexington."
- * Fayetteville Observer: A legislator urged repeal Tuesday of a state law that restricts sex education to teaching only abstinence in most North Carolina public schools. “This is, in the most literal sense, a matter of life and death,” state Rep. Rick Glazier told a forum on sex education in Cumberland County schools. Glazier said children are needlessly exposed to cervical cancer and other diseases because some abstinence-only programs dispense inaccurate data.
- * Jordan Lake rules are due to be heard by the ERC on May 9. They will almost be heading to the General Assembly in 2009.
So, what are you watching for this coming legislative session? (Yes, we know about mental health reform reform.)
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So, what are you watching for this coming legislative session?
I hope a number to a bill to make Greensboro comply with North Carolina General Statute 160a-385 and 386 which is called Protest Petitions. Keep me informed .
Posted on April 30, 2008 10:38 PM
IF HILLARY WINS AND OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ENDORSE OBAMA --- COME NOVEMBER --- WE ALL NEED TO VOTE TO REPLACE ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES NEED TO LISTEN TO "WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES" --- NOT TO A "WANNA-BE-PRESIDENT-IN-TRAINING WHO HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES AND HAS TOO MANY TIES TO TERRORISTS AND ANTI-AMERICAN FRIENDS". We American’s elected ALL members of Congress, as well as state and local officials, to be “our voice” --- we are tired of you taking our voices away.
MAYA ANGELOU SAID: “Hillary Clinton is a prayer of every American who really longs for fair play. Working men and women have had their jobs snatched from underneath them, their homes snatched away from them. And what we need, I think, is a person, a President who can make a difference in our country. She intends to help our country become what it can become. She dares to say human beings are more alike than we are unalike. I watched her become interested in public health and in education for all the children. And I watched her stand. I have found the person I think would be the best president for the United States of America.”
VOTE HILLARY 2008!
Posted on May 1, 2008 1:57 PM
DID THE COCK CROW THREE TIMES BEFORE OBAMA'S 3RD DENIAL OF HIS MASTER, REV. WRIGHT?
I THINK OBAMA'S "CHICKENS" HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST!
DON'T FORGET 9/11 --- OR WRIGHT, BOMBER AYERS, REZKO, FARRAKHAN, SINCLAIR AND ALL THE OTHER ANTI-AMERICANS AND TERRORISTS OBAMA IS CLOSE TO.
VOTE HILLARY 2008!
Posted on May 3, 2008 9:48 PM