Occupy Raleigh packed up most of their camp near Edenton Street in Raleigh, N.C. on Sunday. The camp had been used by the movement since November. According to one occupier interviewed by the News and Observer, “We’re going to clean this up and make it nice, plant some grass.” As of today, significant trash and debris remained at [...]
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Legislation Being Drafted to get Shale Gas Drilling on Track in North Carolina
Now that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) says shale drilling or “fracking” could be done safely in North Carolina lawmakers are going ahead with legislation to set up the framework for rules and funding. Rep. Mitch Gillespie (R-McDowell) says a bill will be ready for the upcoming session beginning April 23. Gillespie [...]
Racial Justice Act & News and Observer Exposed
State Senate President pro tem Phil Berger (R – Rockingham) has a great letter in today’s N&O. In it he takes the paper’s editorial page to task for misrepresenting the Racial Justice Act and for misrepresenting a Twitter statement from his office. The RJA is a bad piece of legislation and every District Attorney in [...]
Governor Calls Back Lawmakers for Veto Session
Governor Beverly Perdue signed a proclamation calling state lawmakers back to Raleigh January 4 to consider her veto of Senate bill 9. That bill restricted what evidence death row inmates could use to make a case of racial bias in death sentences. It effectively narrowed the scope of the Racial Justice Act passed by a [...]
Fallout from Gov. Perdue’s RJA veto
Richard Shaffer, the District Attorney for Lincoln and Cleveland Counties, has resigned from the Governor’s Crime Commission in response to Gov. Perdue’s veto of the Racial Justice Act. DA Shaffer is a member of the Democratic Party. Shaffer writes in his letter of resignation: There is no reasonable person who can argue that the judgments entered in [...]
