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Monthly Archives: June 2007
- Jun29
IBEW gets smacked
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has been clamoring for a vote at Progress Energy’s Shearon Harris Nuclear plant outside of Raleigh for months, if not years. Well, guess what, the employees voted and the union got beat. Bad. According to the News & Observer, the vote was 499-157 against unionizing. It’s quite promising [...]
- Jun28
Smoked Out
The Charlotte Observer says Phillip Morris’s departure from the Charlotte area is a "downside of globalization." Perhaps. But its also an indication that the government’s witchhunt against Big Tobacco is taking its toll–not to mention NC’s declining business environment and corporate taxation, currently among the worst in the Southeast (nay, the nation). This move also [...]
- Jun28
Another Kelo Anniversary Passes: No Action in NC
Thomas Stith audio on the NC General Assembly’s failure to act on a state constitutional amendment protecting private property rights from developers colluding with government.
- Jun27
North Carolina: Behind the Curve Again
As Maryland considers following states like Florida and S.C. in (gasp) voucherizing Medicaid, NC is still in the "let’s expand it" phase. In typical fashion, we’ll be five years behind the curve. While other states innovate (even bad innovations like Massachusetts’ Mitt-care) we’ll be figuring out not only that Medicaid is gobbling our state budget, [...]
- Jun27
Ozone Schmozone
Every time you hear about Charlotte or some other N.C. city "violating" the ozone standard, remember that the EPA – in order to justify its existence – will keep moving the standard down, down, down asymptotically toward zero. The EPA’s regs on ozone are like a limbo contest. If you want a dose of reality [...]
- 1Jun26
Give me a break
Crocodile tears are being shed. As the deadline looms July 1 for the "temporary" sales tax increase to expire, and the House and Senate seem to be nowhere close to agreement on whether to extend the tax increase or not, even the supposed "conservative" Democratic House members are stooping to new lows of rhetoric to [...]
- Jun26
Senate Bill 3: Unholy Alliances Emerge
A tacit rule of blogging: give your opposition credit where it’s due. Rob Schofield deserves credit for at least questioning the kinds of horsetrading, rent-seeking, and corporate welfare that is part and parcel to Senate Bill 3 — the "renewables" bill that is likely to emerge from committee today in Raleigh. While Schofield apparently caught [...]
- Jun26
If it’s good enough for Tanzania…
Tanzania has a hit song about privatization. The African country has had far too many years of less-than-competent government controlling its economy. If the ratio of private-to-public sector jobs (currently it’s less than 5-to-1) doesn’t stop sliding in North Carolina, we’re going to need a song of our own.
- Jun25
Electioneering communications
In a 5-4 ruling, the US Supreme Court struck down a portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations that barred corporations, labor unions or any other interest group (527 groups) from airing ads mentioning specific candidates within certain dates of elections in so called "issue ads." Read more from WaPo here. The question now is, [...]