To shine the light a little brighter on legislative action Civitas is starting a feature we are calling "Bad Bill of the Week." Each week we will highlight a bill that we think is particularly bad or odd legislation. This week we highlighted a bill that appears to have resulted from a child custody disagreement [...]
Legislative Activity Archives
A Response to Public Collective Bargaining
While the increased activities of unions in North Carolina has elicited a weak response from most of the business community, there is movement against adding collective bargaining for public employees amongst the states human resources professionals. The same people that do the hiring, paying and firing of employees in the private sector view public unions [...]
Atkinson Finally Speaks Out
In an obvious response to my earlier blog post questioning why she hasn't spoken out about being stripped of all her power, Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson has sent a letter to the legislature calling on them to legally clarify the division of power in the Department of Education. Every State Superintendent since 1995 [...]
Obama unleashes Barack Obama 2.0!
As I posted earlier, Barack Obama has institutionalized the first permanent presidential campaign. He decided to take the campaign out for a spin yesterday by emailing supporters and calling for “house parties” to support the “stimulus plan” making its way through congress. Hope you weren’t thinking that campaign 2012 would wait until after the 2010 [...]
Session Limits for the General Assembly?
Could limits on the amount of time the General Assembly spends in session be on the horizon? Possibly, according to legislation filed by Sen. Tony Rand (D-Cumberland) and co-sponsored by 32 additional Senators. Rand's bill would limit the number of days per year that a legislator can receive per diem reimbursement. In odd-numbered years (for [...]
