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Re: The cost of tree removal

gordman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:23:13 -0400

Cutting trees? Despite all the current efforts in building a new green world? What are these people thinking?
Gordman, Houston tree service

Re: The cost of tree removal

j1c2kp — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:41:56 -0400

Whatever industry wants, industry gets. Cut those trees.

Re: Dome Memo: Easley, McCrory, Burr

Isaac136 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:52:30 -0400

RTB, and you would leave us at a time like this?

Don't goooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Easley's nine vetoes

m24680 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:24:41 -0400

Thanks Governor! You will have used your veto to perhaps save lives. Great decision.

Re: Easley's other vetoes

gercohen — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:58:32 -0400

actually Hunt III and Hunt IV had the veto power, but it was never used. Easley was the first to actually veto a bill.

Re: What Sen. Smith missed

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:38:36 -0400

Welcome to the edge of propriety. Please make your stay a brief one.

Thanks,

— RTB

Re: What Sen. Smith missed

SneakyFRED — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:02:37 -0400

Fred Smith, you make me want to puke. And anyone that knows anything about you, or has any dealing with you, your recently felony convicted Riverwood counsel, or your company knows exactly what I am talking about. Furthermore, why must you repeatedly kill the beavers in the lake in Riverwood?

Re: What Sen. Smith missed

kimkim — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:16:31 -0400

Wow - Smith missed a lot of votes. Smith talks the talk but he does not walk the walk.

I found this from April of this year:

Goldsboro News Argus - April 11, 2007 (excerpt)

Smith: Work in N.C. Senate won't suffer from campaign

State Sen. Fred Smith, R-Johnston, is campaigning for governor, but that doesn't mean he is ignoring his duties in the Senate.

"I think I'm meeting the needs of the people in my district," he said Tuesday after leading a devotional at the Tuesday Morning Men's Prayer Breakfast at Wilber's. "It just requires long days, but that comes with the territory.

"I'm working hard to be a good senator in the 12th senatorial district."

Link: http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2007/04/11/smith_work_in_nc_senate_wont_suffer_from_campaign/index.shtml

Re: A progressive on the "do-nothing" session

JayBlair — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:31:19 -0400

One thing the Legislature did this session was to create a new means for increasing ways for big money to influence the process. By creating a structure for legal defense funds for themselves big money can get around the gift ban that was put into law last year. Under current law legislators can not receive gifts from people they regulate, which probably includes almost everyone. That would mean no money for legal fees. By allowing politicians to create a fund and permitting "contributions" they have allowed what couldn't be done previously.

Re: A progressive on the "do-nothing" session

WayneUber — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:21:32 -0400

Less than 10 percent of the bills filed were actually passed. This is a mixed blessing as many were "garbage bills" that have been recycled from previous sessions (i.e. death penalty moratorium). 20 percent of the bills that were passed were "junk" or "feel good" legisation as referenced in previous N&O articles... so "do-nothing" seems very appropriate.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/659593.html

68:

Joint resolutions, mostly acknowledgements and commemorations, passed this year. Among those honored:

* UPS on its 100th anniversary.

* The Mitchell County courthouse on its 100th anniversary.

* Tweetsie Railroad on its 50th anniversary.

* Mars Hill College on its 150th Anniversary.

* Songwriter Don Gibson, bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs and NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson.