A large turnout and robust mix of speakers gave the state’s Joint Regulatory Reform Committee plenty to write home about at the WNC public hearing on Friday, April 15.
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Multiple choice: I never met a state regulation I did/didn’t like
State regulations got you down? Speak up at the only WNC public hearing of the Joint Committee on Regulatory Reform — this Friday, April 15, in Flat Rock.
Equality NC rallies against “Defense of Marriage” acts
Equality North Carolina will hold an April 14 town hall meeting to rally support against a pair of “Defense of Marriage” acts recently introduced in the state legislature.
State legislators adopt resolution to investigate DENR’s handling of CTS site
North Carolina legislators may soon appoint a committee charged with investigating how the state environmental agency has handled the contaminated CTS site in Asheville. On April 11, the N.C. House adopted a resolution (HB 186) that calls for creating a “house select committee” for the issue. Rep. Tim Moffitt, Republican, was the primary sponsor. For the full text of the resolution…
Proposed medical practitioner legislation generates “quite the discussion”
An online report that the N.C. Legislature was about to criminalize homeopaths, herbalists and other alternative practitioners has been refuted by debate in the House today and by comments from Buncombe County’s Susan Fisher and Tim Moffitt.
Takin’ care of (legislative) business: 1,000 bills and more to come
Government lumbers along in Raleigh, as the N.C. General Assembly checks off bill-filing deadlines and begins to jam committee schedules with hearings on this session’s crop of proposed legislation.
Governor names two new judges to Buncombe County District Court
Asheville attorneys Ward Scott and Ed Clontz were appointed by Gov. Bev Perdue on Friday to the two vacant 28th Judicial District Court judgeships in Buncombe County.
Moffitt, Gantt spar over district elections
Buncombe County Board Chair David Gantt and Statehouse Rep. Tim Moffitt exchanged sharp words over Moffitt’s recent proposal to expand the Board of Commissioners from five to seven members and mandate district representation in place of the current at-large elections. The two elected officials spoke at this morning’s April 1 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at the Biltmore Square Mall. Photo by Margaret Williams
Keever pushes energy efficiency incentives and safe slope-construction study
First-term Democrat Patsy Keever, representing Buncombe County’s 115th District in the N.C. General Assembly, became the primary sponsor last week of a new initiative to address safe slope construction in Western North Carolina.
New legislation could create district elections for Buncombe County Board of Commissioners
Rep. Tim Moffitt has introduced legislation to change the composition of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners from five to seven members, and to require district elections for commission members.
Public comment invited on legislation to require photo ID for voters
Public comment is still being received on the Restore Confidence in Government legislation proposed for North Carolina that would require voters to provide photo identification before voting.
A report card — of sorts — on Buncombe County legislators
If you are known by the legislation you keep, the primary sponsorships of bills by the Buncombe County delegation may be revealing as week eight of the 2011-2012 session gets underway.
Stock-car racing on track to become N.C.‘s official state sport
Two new bills introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly last week came directly from the people — 13 elementary-school students, to be exact. And if they are passed, the state will have its first official state sport — one ubiquitously familiar in Asheville and Western North Carolina: stock-car racing.
Legislators pile up the bills; governor throws another one out
Legislators added more than 130 new bills to the roster last week, while one of the premier acts in the House (HB 2, which proposes bucking the federal health-care bill) was returned by the governor, who exercised her veto power for the second time.
March 4, 2011, statement by BCBOE Chair Steven Sizemore
On March 4, 2011, Buncombe County Board of Election Chairman Steven Sizemore prepared a statement responding to N.C. Republican’s proposed charter-school bill, SB 8.
A resolution to reconsider N.C. Senate Bill 8
N.C. Democrats proposed a resolution that counters SB 8, which broadens charter-school options.
Will charter school legislation pass the test?
Area Democratic representatives plan bill-to-bill combat with the Senate’s proposed charter-school changes.
photo by Jonathan Welch
Clock is ticking on Health Care Freedom Act
The North Carolina General Assembly’s protest of the national health-care mandates is resting uneasily on the governor’s desk.
Perdue vetoes Republican deficit bill
Gov. Bev Perdue, at 3:05 p.m. yesterday, Feb. 22, exercised her veto power to send SB 13, “The Balanced Budget Act of 2011,” back to the General Assembly, calling it a “one-time cash-grab.”
(Blue) Dog-ged
Rep. Heath Shuler defied national trends last year when, as a Democrat in a Republican-leaning district in a year that saw major GOP gains, he defeated Hendersonville businessman Jeff Miller by a 9 percent margin. While Shuler's caucus, the conservative Blue Dogs, lost more than half its membership, he not only survived but went on […]
Will the real budget deficit please stand still?
In a bit of a shell game, legislators continued to formulate their approach to the state’s budget deficit even as the governor announced that new projections had erased $1 billion of the originally predicted $3.7 billion shortfall for the next fiscal year. (The projected deficit was subsequently scaled down to $2.4 billion.) Meanwhile, the Legislature […]