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.
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NCMatters
Two bills introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly recently came directly from the people — 13 elementary-school students, to be exact. And if they’re passed, the state will have its first official sport: stock-car racing. The Mooresville "pit crew" worked secretly at first so as not to tip off fans of any other sport, […]
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.
NCmatters
The countdown on the Health Care Freedom Act (HB 2) went down to the wire, but just before 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the controversial legislation, which would have pitted the state against the federal health-care law. "A state can't pass a law that is out of obeyance with federal […]
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.
Backdoor vouchers?
Three state representatives from Western North Carolina held a March 4 press conference in Asheville slamming charter-school legislation approved by the N.C. Senate this week. The three legislators, all Democrats, praised Buncombe County's existing charter schools as a model for the state. Reps. Susan Fisher, Patsy Keever (both Buncombe County) and Ray Rapp (Madison County) […]
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.
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.”
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 […]
Choice battles emerge in Legislature
With the release of Gov. Bev Perdue’s proposed 2011-2013 budget on Feb. 17, an important line was drawn.
NC Matters
Entering her fourth term in the N.C. General Assembly, Rep. Susan Fisher of the 114th District is the senior representative from Buncombe County. As a Democrat, however, she lost the leadership positions she held last year as Republicans took control of both houses of the Legislature in January. "None of the Democrats are seeing office-holding […]
Would the real budget deficit please stand still
In a bit of a shell game last week in the N.C. General Assembly, legislators continued to look for their own approach to the state’s budget deficit while the governor announced new deficit projections had erased $1 billion of the original $3.7 billion shortfall.
What state are we in? Gov. Perdue addresses General Assembly tonight
Gov. Bev Perdue presents the biennial State of the State address tonight to a joint session of the N.C. General Assembly.
Democrat Susan Fisher describes the “new landscape” in a Republican-controlled Statehouse
Buncombe County’s senior representative in the North Carolina House sees an “interesting time” ahead for the next two years, but says the minority Democrats are working very well together.
State Beat
As the North Carolina General Assembly’s 2011-12 biennium got under way last week, leaders were formally elected, committee assignments were handed out, and a small number of bills — some tackling such weighty subjects as involuntary annexation and the use of eminent domain — were introduced, perhaps providing clues as to what might be coming […]
Legislators argue money, praise Boy Scouts, and contemplate election law changes
In the midst of budgetary rancor, there was a trace of bipartisan support in the Legislature last week for reforming state election law and saluting the North Carolina’s Boy Scouts.
Republicans step up to bat
The new Republican majority in the state Legislature came ready to play on Jan. 26, the first day of the 2011 session, immediately introducing bills to forbid contraints on “health care freedom” and to amend the state constitution to prohibit the use of eminent domain for economic development. Sen. Tom Apodaca of Hendersonville, representing the […]
Leadership changes and new initiatives shape Legislature’s agenda
New faces in leadership positions and new initiatives on the legislative agenda were the highlights of the N.C. General Assembly’s first week of the 2011-12 session. Involuntary annexation, a federal health care rebuff, and use of eminent domain were among the first bills out of the gate.