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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pionner Park in Fairbanks on Saturday, July 25, Palin said.
There was no immediate [...]
Governor Beverly Perdue has sent out misleading messages about ?Protecting Public Education.? While this state has an unemployment rate over 11 percent and a record $4.7 billion budget deficit, she calls for more spending??investments??for ?green energy jobs? and education.
Frantically, her message declares: ?We are at a [...]
It must be true… a McClatchy newspaper sez so today. Right there, above the fold in today’s Charlotte Observer:
Dismal Numbers
14.7 million: People unemployed in June, the most ever in records dating to 1948. (GP Ed. Note - obviously there were more during the Great Depression)12.1 million: People unemployed in [...]
Susan Stabley over at The Charlotte Business Journal provides a detailed run-down of the contractors claiming they have not been paid for work on the EpiCenter. She also quite amazingly gets Afshin Ghazi to comment after weeks of chasing him down. Ghazi relates that it is perfectly normal to [...]
Yesterday, Glenn linked a comment James Taranto made in his Best of the Web column for the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal:
Have you noticed a change in the economic news over the past year or so? It’s a deliberately ambiguous question: The actual news has gotten [...]
Get a load of this claptrap
Randy Brinson, a conservative political consultant in Alabama, has been fielding anxious calls for weeks from business interests across the South.
Their concern is massive ad blitz on Christian and country-music stations across 10 states. The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for [...]
Just remember what Obama said: Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. And, that is exactly what someone in the know thinks will happen
Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month.
Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that it’s a possibility [...]
Ed Cone called Greensboro City Council candidate Ryan Shell’s proposal to filter porn at the public library ‘pretty thin gruel,’ yet he latches on to Shell’s idea to provide shelter for all city bus stops.
Everyone knows my views on public transportation, but I wouldn’t suggest that [...]
Entrepreneur Randy Lively is building a wireless-internet system covering the coastal strip from Morehead City to Jacksonville, Florida. As the Greater Wilmington Business Journal reports, Lively?s firm is setting up a network of repeater radios to provide the service:
Those looking for Internet connections within the range of the receivers [...]
This morning’s N&R print edition reports Sen. Kay Hagan’s support for a public option health insurance plan, but I can’t find it online. I’m sure it will be up soon.
The spin appears to be that Hagan is supporting a compromise plan where “gatekeepers will ensure that that those with [...]
The Hondurans are so concerned about potential despots, that Article 239 of their constitution states that any president who [...]
Here’s a great column from Karl Rove about a family that gives me hope for this country.
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The City of Asheville expects to receive $509,460 for homelessness programs by way of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Now, it has to figure out where to stash the loot. It is soliciting pre-applications from potential subgrantees.
[...]The John Locke Foundation gave Asheville and Buncombe County B grades in transparency. There is, however, a great deal of difference in the way the two bodies handle information. Asheville publishes hundreds of pages of staff reports with each formal meeting agenda, which often runs three pages long. Buncombe [...]
