Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
News & Observer has a story about a budget surpus in state coffers. I just thought the headline needed correcting.
State has big budget surplus
Much likely to go to urgent concerns
North Carolina has seen an “explosion” in tax collections, giving the state its healthiest budget surplus in years, a report released Thursday says.
The state will bring […]
There is one truism about politics that is often repeated:
All politics is local.
Tip O’Neill said that.
I will have to add one more truism:
All politics is sleazy.
The News & Observer is reporting that Morrisville commissioners have given Lenovo tax breaks without public OK, and the law allows it. They will rubber stamp the deal in a […]
… Design.
Ha. Got you, didn’t I?
You thought, just for a second, that hell had frozen over and the Raleigh City Council grew a brain and decided to boot the whole Downtown Convention Center, didn’t you?
We should be so lucky.
Well, maybe you aren’t as hopeful as I am, but I had to read the NBC 17 […]
EFF Convinces North Carolina Judge To Throw Out Diebold E-Voting Case
E-Voting Company Forced to Comply with Election Transparency LawsRaleigh, North Carolina - Responding to arguments made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a North Carolina judge today told Diebold Election Systems that the e-voting company must comply with tough North Carolina election law and dismissed […]
We had some good rain over the past day or so, a welcome relief since we are in a severe drought.
The N&O reports on how the recent rain affects our water supply:
By this morning, the Triangle will have absorbed about 2 inches of rain, enough to push Falls Lake up two-tenths of a foot and […]
