Conservative women from three universities unite to host political writer and speaker Mary Katharine Ham to discuss, “New Wave Feminism: Girl Power without Government.” On Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7:00 pm the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) will host Mary Katharine Ham at Meredith College in Ledford Rm. 101 to challenge university women to reclaim [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
- Jan25
Poll Luncheon On Wednesday
The Civitas Institute will be holding its monthly poll luncheon this Wednesday where we will be releasing the results of our latest poll results. Our guest commentator this month will be Dallas Woodhouse. Dallas has been involved in North Carolina politics for many years. Beginning his career as a Raleigh-based political journalist with NBC-17, he [...]
- 1Jan22
ABC Commission and Boards: Time to Shine a Bright Light
The scandals emerging from local ABC boards in Wilmington and Charlotte across the state tell us Raleigh certainly has no corner on corruption. Billy Williams, a high school graduate, current ABC administrator in New Hanover County and an ABC employee of 42-years is at the center of much of the storm in Wilmington. According to pay records, Williams [...]
- Jan21
More on Basnight and the Pier
After seeing our article from Jan. 12 detailing how Basnight Construction received a subcontract job to build a portion of the $25 million fishing pier in Sen. Marc Basnight’s district, news reporters caught up with him yesterday to ask him about his involvement. Sen. Basnight’s response according to the N&O was that he resigned from [...]
- Jan21
UN Having To Admit More (and more) Mistakes
In October of last year, anti-human, climate-change advocates found themselves in the largest e-mail scandal in twenty years. That scandal came to be known as ClimateGate and showed a great of effort was being placed on going after scientists who didn’t tow the line on climate change and also that data was essentially being massaged [...]
- Jan21
Early Childhood Education and Care Consolidation
Yesterday’s meeting of the Joint Legislative Task Force on the Consolidation of Early Childhood Education and Care was pretty uneventful. During the meeting, three directors from different local Smart Start programs discussed what they do and the benefits of their programs. Disappointingly, the meeting lacked any actual recommendations for how to consolidate North Carolina’s early childhood [...]
- Jan20
Peeling Away the Left’s Lies
If you do away with Wake’s use of diversity in school assignment decisions, the district will inevitably segregate into two different systems. That’s a favorite non sequitur of the left and one I’ve been hearing quite frequently of late. Last night at the Wake County School Board meeting it was Matthew Brown’s chance to pick [...]
- Jan20
An Update From NCICL
This is a recent update on the ongoing incentives debacles across our great state from the NC Institute of Constitutional Law. $100,000 in additional incentives has been approved for Innovative Emergency Management (IEM) by commissioners in Durham County on January 11th. The company has also been granted a $150,000grant from the state’s One North Carolina Fund and [...]
- Jan20
Let Voters Decide on Raleigh Debt
Robert Orr, former state Supreme Court justice, and executive director of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, recently penned this article for the Raleigh N&O regarding the city’s plan to skirt voter approval to issue debt to finance their proposed new safety center and other remote operations facilities. Some of his main points include: The state [...]
- Jan20
Does Massachusetts Election Mean Big GOP Gains in NC House & Senate?
DATELINE NC – NOVEMBER 3, 2010: The GOP now holds 34 of the 50 seats in the NC Senate and 82 of the 120 seats in the NC House. Not a likely headline but read below how it could happen. Does last nights win by Scott Brown in the Massachusetts US Senate race mean that [...]