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6/7/2011 9:51:30 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/06/census.charlotte/index.html

CNN all over NC. this is on how the financial crisis in 2008 affected Charlotte the 2nd biggest banking city at the time.

6/7/2011 10:21:58 PM

That's a really interesting article on Charlotte

6/7/2011 11:01:24 PM

Quote :

"Grenade found in sewing machine"

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8208854

[Edited on June 23, 2011 at 3:10 PM. Reason : s]

6/23/2011 3:10:24 PM

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/18/nobody-runs-for-office-in-small-n-c-town/?hpt=hp_c2

7/19/2011 1:31:08 AM

Quote :

"The mayor was in the process of moving out of the city, so he wasn’t going to file"

well, thats not good publicity

7/19/2011 2:11:22 AM

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/27/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs/

Quote :

"NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending Congressional elections for the next couple of years. “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News and Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.” Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. “You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things,” Perdue said. North Carolina Republicans immediately scoffed at Perdue’s proposal, pointing out to her that elections hold politicians accountable for their actions. “Now is a time when politicians need to be held accountable more than ever,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood said in an email to The Daily Caller. “To suspend an election would be removing the surest mechanism that citizens have to hold politicians accountable: The right to vote.”"

9/27/2011 5:03:07 PM

there's a good and valid point in there, but that's about the slipperiest slope i've ever seen

[Edited on September 27, 2011 at 5:06 PM. Reason : see also: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/opinion/granderson-broken-government-voters/index.html]

9/27/2011 5:05:56 PM

The only valid point is that we need politicians to stop worrying about re-election. I've got a much better, much simpler plan: term limits.

9/27/2011 5:08:55 PM

^ like

9/27/2011 5:11:12 PM

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She says it at ~0:32

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/new-audio-nc-governor-struck-serious-tone-on-suspending-congressional-elections/

Quote :

"If it was a joke, North Carolina Democratic Governor Bev Perdue needs to polish her delivery. Newly released audio contradicts the claims of Perdue’s press team that her call Tuesday for suspending Congressional election was a joke or hyperbole. In the recording, her tone is matter-of-fact and her comments are part of a serious speech. “Listen to the Governor’s words: She wasn’t joking at all,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood told The Daily Caller. “The congressional Democrats are wildly unpopular in North Carolina, so she may have been trying to invent a solution to save their jobs from public accountability.” “If it was a joke, what was the set-up?,” Lockwood adds. “What was the punch-line? Where was the pause for laughter? It took them three hours to say it was a ‘joke,’ but when that flopped it became ‘hyperbole.’ We’ll just call it an unconstitutionally bad idea.”"

9/28/2011 1:14:00 PM

BUT SHE IS A DEMOCRAT- THEY DON'T MAKE MISTAKES!

9/28/2011 1:19:24 PM

lol

democrats have the peoples interest at heart indeed

man i tell you, only suckers believe in these snakeoil salesmen enough to argue about who is better on the internet all day.

[Edited on September 28, 2011 at 1:24 PM. Reason : f]

9/28/2011 1:22:13 PM

Quote :

"TAR HEEL, N.C. -- One North Carolina town won't let a lack of candidates stand in the way of democracy. Voters in the Bladen County town of Tar Heel cast their ballots this week. All the election's votes were write-in votes because no one registered to run for office. The rural town of about 117 residents has four part-time elected positions. Bladen County Board of Elections officials say there were clear winners in all the races, with about 10 names being written in by voters. Officials now have to make sure that the top vote-getters live inside town limits and are willing to accept the jobs."

11/17/2011 7:44:52 AM

I wouldn't want to lead a town named "Tar Heel" either.

11/17/2011 7:59:59 AM

^win

11/17/2011 8:07:19 AM

I'm posting here so that bmel will read this story about her home county

11/17/2011 8:09:34 AM

haha, Tar Heel sucks so bad they have to make someone run it.

11/18/2011 9:49:10 AM

Quote :

"GASTONIA, N.C. – The North Carolina school principal who suspended a nine-year-old boy for saying a female teacher was "cute" has been forced to retire over the decision. Emanyea Lockett was given a three-day suspension from Gaston's Brookside Elementary School after he told another student his teacher was "cute" and a substitute teacher overheard the comment, the Gaston Gazette reported. School officials investigated the incident and found that Emanyea had done nothing wrong. The school board then gave principal Jerry Bostic one hour to stand down or face termination. Bostic spoke out after his 44-year career came to an abrupt end Tuesday, saying, "I didn't show a history of making problems like that. I've had the best of evaluations my entire career and because of some syndicated columnist in New York or California, I don't have a job." Of school superintendent Reeves McGlohon -- who gave him the quit-or-be-fired ultimatum -- Bostic said, "He told me he had made the decision he was going to terminate me or drop me into an assistant principal position. "I admit I made some errors in what I did, but to fire me or to demote me with 44 years in it, it just doesn't make sense. To me he was a very heartless man, and he did it because of politics." Emanyea's mother, Chiquita Lockett, said, "This is something that everyone needed to see, just to see what's happening within our school systems." She was likely to pursue legal action, WSOC-TV reported. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/07/north-carolina-principal-forced-to-retire-after-suspending-nine-year-old-for/?test=latestnews#ixzz1fun8a26N "

smh

12/7/2011 11:42:40 PM

^ and that's why I found my way out of striving for a degree to work in our education system...

12/7/2011 11:53:44 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/31/no-sale-million-dollar-bill-gets-north-carolina-man-arrested-at-walmart/?test=latestnews

1/1/2012 10:23:25 AM

So did Bev end elections in NC yet, thus making her supreme ruler?

I don't live there anymore, so i never heard about this.

1/1/2012 3:04:58 PM

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-forced-sterilization-20120126,0,2398463.story

1/25/2012 9:19:53 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/27/1809916/cat-dog-hoarders-featured-on-tv.html

1/27/2012 6:34:41 PM

^ lol SPCA sent out an email about that the other day.

1/27/2012 8:39:27 PM

news and disturber =/= national news

1/28/2012 4:18:29 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/stun-gun-used-woman-blocked-nc-drive-thru-180222200.html;_ylt=Al.p5h5atJ8GgisApo21ktms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNqZGRibzJpBGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEcGtnAzlhMTdmZDE1LWE4NjgtMzBhMi1hYTY1LWRjZGNkNDU3NTY4ZARwb3MDMQRzZWMDbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHZlcgM3OWY3OTg5MC00ZmI1LTExZTEtYmZmZi00NDc2YzM1ZjI5YWU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

2/5/2012 8:58:51 AM

The stun gun report on the national media outles don't say a word on how she became belligerent and tried to fight off the cops. (as of yesterday). They also didn't mention child services took the kid.

NC fail.

2/5/2012 9:57:26 AM

ragged ass redneck nc buses

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/09/us/north-carolina-bus-fire/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

2/10/2012 2:33:05 PM

even when we aren't in the news, we are in the news

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-huguely-guilty-degree-murder-grand-larceny/story?id=15765239#.T0ZvSU_d9V0

Quote :

"CHARLOTTESVILLE NORTH CAROLINA"

2/23/2012 11:50:48 AM

What about the time we were the first in flight?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message

2/23/2012 4:52:46 PM

http://www.cnn.com/

BREAKING NEWS: North Carolina voters approve a referendum to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage, CNN projects.

5/8/2012 9:26:13 PM

Quote :

"Amendment 1 had the support of more than 59% of the nearly 1 million votes tallied about an hour after polls closed Tuesday night, according to figures from the State Board of Elections. Its backers prepared to celebrate by serving wedding cake to their supporters in a Raleigh ballroom, even as Tami Fitzgerald, the head of Vote for Marriage NC, noted it was "a bit early.""

5/8/2012 9:28:54 PM

welp.

at least we're not Florida.

5/8/2012 10:59:05 PM

Or California...

5/8/2012 10:59:33 PM

Quote :

"The state House and Senate voted in 2011 to put the amendment before state voters. Both chambers are Republican-controlled for the first time in the past 140 years. "This bill's been 12 years in the making," said Maxine Eichner, a law professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "But it's now made possible because Republicans control the legislature.""

5/8/2012 10:59:35 PM

Pastor Calls For Death of 'Queers & Homosexuals'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d2n7vSPwhSU

Maiden, NC

5/22/2012 9:56:34 AM

His plan was guaranteed to work if he only got it past Congress, because surely all homosexuals were all procreated by other homosexuals

5/22/2012 11:20:55 AM

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/

Quote :

"That is, the meter or so of sea level rise predicted for the NC Coastal Resources Commission by a state-appointed board of scientists is extremely inconvenient for counties along the coast. So the NC-20 types have decided that we can escape sea level rise – in North Carolina, anyhow – by making it against the law. Or making MEASURING it against the law, anyhow."

5/31/2012 8:07:28 AM

IT'S THE LAW. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT GET THE HELL OUT!!!

5/31/2012 8:22:39 AM

^

5/31/2012 8:23:17 AM

Doesn't anyone give a shit about the rules?!

5/31/2012 8:29:14 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/peter-lucas-moses-north-carolina-man-murder-pleads-guilty_n_1587768.html

SMH

6/28/2012 12:05:11 AM

Quote :

"Former District Attorney Tracey Cline told a judge during a hearing last July that Moses shot Jadon because he thought the boy was gay. "In the religious belief of that organization, homosexuality was frowned on," she is quoted by WRAL as saying."

Obviously, it's a little more extreme than "frowning" upon it.

I'm tempted to say that Cline picked the wrong words, but it wouldn't surprise me if she
deemphasized the extremeness of the belief on purpose...wouldn't want too many people
sympathizing with the homophobic aspect of the murder.

[Edited on June 28, 2012 at 12:14 AM. Reason : sss]

6/28/2012 12:14:10 AM

gg Dunn, NC
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/19/north-carolina-mayor-pushes-for-ordinance-banning-sagging-pants/?test=latestnews

Quote :

"Saggy pants "is part of a culture that breeds drug sales, drug addictions, crime and murder," Robinson said. "That is not what I want for our community." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/19/north-carolina-mayor-pushes-for-ordinance-banning-sagging-pants/?test=latestnews#ixzz2182fvJ8s "

7/19/2012 11:10:34 PM

Quote :

"WENTWORTH, N.C. — A man who’d just been released from jail in northern North Carolina was arrested again for refusing to leave the jail after authorities wouldn’t give him a ride to a motel. The News & Record of Greensboro reports (http://bit.ly/OZm7NK) that 37-year-old Rodney Dwayne Valentine was charged with trespassing. Valentine was released from the Rockingham County jail Saturday morning after being behind bars since May 22. The sheriff’s office says he asked them to drive him to a local motel and they refused. Deputies charged Valentine with second-degree trespassing when he had refused to leave the jail by Saturday afternoon. He’s being held on $500 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 9. It was not clear if he has a lawyer."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/man-charged-for-refusing-to-leave-nc-jail-after-he-couldnt-get-a-ride-to-a-motel/2012/07/25/gJQAwJXh8W_story.html

7/25/2012 10:37:57 AM

Quote :

""Saggy pants "is part of a culture that breeds drug sales, drug addictions, crime and murder," Robinson said. "That is not what I want for our community.""

lolwut

7/25/2012 11:15:10 AM

Ummm, federal courts have already ruled similar bans unconstitutional. Try not to waste everyone's time and money by having to run this through court just to get chucked.

7/25/2012 11:17:05 AM

^^^ Wonder if that ride was worth going back to jail for

7/25/2012 11:18:51 AM

I'm not sure who deserves more of a facepalm, the guy who wanted a ride, or the cops for being so tuff.

7/25/2012 11:24:28 AM