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More Truth to Power Sen. Edwards

By On August 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

via AlterNet:

Sen. Edwards campaigning in New Hampsire:

“Real change starts with being honest — the system in Washington is rigged and our government is broken. It’s rigged by greedy corporate powers to protect corporate profits. It’s rigged by the very wealthy to ensure they become even wealthier. At the end of the [...]

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Orange County Opposes HB1587

By On June 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Orange County Commissioner Mike Nelson lets me know that the Orange County Commissioners passed a resolution against HB1587 last tuesday. They join a growing number of North Carolina municipalities fighting this bad bill. I am so proud of my local governments. Orange County you rock! Thank you Commissioners. [PDF of the OC [...]

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City of Greensboro Opposes HB1587

By On June 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last night the Greensboro City council passed a resolution opposing HB1587. That brings the count of communities opposing HB1587 to seven nine. The others are the City of Wilson, City of Fayetteville, City of Rocky Mount, Town of Carrboro, Town of Chapel Hill, Polk County, City of Monroe, [...]

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Google has a Public Policy Blog

By On June 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Google Public Policy Blog: Google’s views on government, Policy, and Politics

This will be really interesting. Even for us folks in North Carolina. Why? Google just spoke out against HB1587, Google is building a HUGE facility in Lenoir, NC, Google bought a company called Skia in Chapel Hill which appears [...]

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Google and Intel letters about HB1587

By On June 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Check out these two letters. One from Google’s State Policy Council John Burchett [PDF] and one from Intel’s Director of Communications policy Peter K. Pitch [PDF]. Both are to Speaker of the House Joe Hackney, Gov. Easley, and other Committee Representatives. They both speak against HB1587!

Google strongly opposes HB1587 and Intel writes [...]

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Why Muni Networks get Built

By On June 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Local governments don’t spend millions of dollars and go through great hassle to create telecommunications monopolies. Most often they get into the business of providing infrastructure because the private sector won’t do it or can not do it at a high enough level. (DSL sucks and Cable modems are just enough)

The blog

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Town of Carrboro Charter Printed in The Citizen

By On May 6, 2007 · 1 Comment

In this weeks Carrboro Citizen you’ll find the Charter of the Town of Carrboro. You may wonder who besides a politician or bureaucrat would enjoy reading this document? Well me for one.

Why? Because within this ancient legalese lies answers to why things happen in Carrboro. Time and time again here on OP [...]

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Buying the War

By On April 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Bill Moyers has a great new piece called Buying the War. All the video is online here. I’ve only gotten through chapter one but I can already tell how very important this documentary is. History will be kind to the view that the main stream media was hoodwinked by the Bush administration. What [...]

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Help start Bill Hop NC

By On February 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Another legislation tracking website called Bill Hop is focusing on state bill activity. They’re trying to get one going for North Carolina. [ nc.billhop.com ] Check out their about info:

BillHop is a network of sites (for each statehouse and Congress) that allows people to track and comment on legislation while connecting with [...]

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Keep up with bills using OpenCongress

By On February 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

There’s a neat new website out there for all you political junkies and hopefully regular people. Its called Open Congress. Here’s something from their about page:

OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.

For most people, finding out [...]

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