An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement will “Occupy the Courts!” Friday. Activists plan to hold rallies at courthouses around the country, including in the Triangle and even Bryson City. They’ll be at the Terry Sanford Federal Building in Raleigh at 11:00 a.m. Occupiers are protesting the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Citizens United [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Folwell Announces for Lt. Governor
House Speaker Pro Tem Rep. Dale Folwell (R-Forsyth) announced Tuesday he will enter the race for Lt. Governor. His “Dale Can Fix NC” campaign was launched in Winston-Salem. Folwell was instrumental is passing the Woman’s Right to Know law, Ethen’s law as well as the State Pension Fund Solvency Reform Act. The Winston-Salem Republican said [...]
Gov. Perdue Favors Hollywood Millionaires Over Struggling North Carolinians
Per this N&O article, North Carolina doled out perhaps an all-time high in tax breaks to Hollywood movie studios. That’s right, while Gov. Perdue was arguing to raise the sales tax on hard working, low-income North Carolinians by close to a billion dollars, she also supported a tax break for billion-dollar film production corporations. While the Governor’s [...]
WCPSS and layoffs
A sluggish economy and endless press reports about the havoc Republican budgets would wreak on local school systems generated plenty of concern about layoffs in school systems across North Carolina. So what do preliminary school personnel figures show for Wake County Public Schools System (WCPSS), the state’s largest? In the last year, WCPSS did layoff [...]
Why “Austrian” Economics Matter
In this Slate article, Matthew Yglesias attempts to explain “Austrian Economics” to those unfamiliar with that school of thought. The Austrian school of thought has gained wider acceptance in recent years, in large part because it is Austrian economists who predicted the financial collapse while “mainstream” economists where completely clueless. Indeed, Presidential candidate Ron Paul [...]
