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Meanwhile, at the legislature

I didn't spend much time around Jones Street today...I had a touch of the Obama-mania.

As it turns out, Monday night was kind of quiet, with the bulk of the time taken up honoring baseball teams and churches and what not.

For you raw milk fans, Rep. Pricey Harrison expects her bill disapproving the Ag Board's pet milk rule will be heard by the House Ag committee on Wednesday. A related bill, which would provide a mechanism by which it would be legal for humans to obtain and drink raw milk, will probably not get done this year, she said after session tonight.

From the "everyone's talking about it" file comes this story at the WECT site, which says Sen. Julia Boseman of Wilmington admitted in court to using marijuana. As the barkeep has commented, (last item) this one feels like it's going to get uglier before too long. (Star News has more.

One Tuesday's Senate floor calendar: The Jessica Lunsford Act. It had been in the Appropriations Committee and was moved to the floor by Sen. Tony Rand Monday night.

The Skip and Phil show (weekly presser by Skip Stam and Phil Berger, House and Senate Republican leaders) is due to return Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. with talk about "earmarks" according to one staffer who stopped by the press room to prod us all to stop by.

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From the "everyone's talking about it" file comes this story at the WECT site, which says Sen. Julia Boseman of Wilmington admitted in court to using marijuana. As the barkeep has commented, (last item) this one feels like it's going to get uglier before too long. (Star News has more* Mark

It's going to get worst! Julia has a big time problem. It appears there is a vast income issue [IRS 2006 return] and a high flying life style raising it's ugly head. Unexplain big time trips world wide [Eurpo, Vegas, Ski resorts Canada] funded by unknown parties according to court transcripts and assorted property transfers to her new partner [ a local vice cop] I suspect this is going to make the Thomas Wright affair appear to be a normal simple accounting error.

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