Monthly Archives: September 2011

Governor Recommends Suspending Democracy to Focus on Jobs, Debt

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How should we solve our national debt problem and our unemployment crisis? If you ask the Beverly Perdue (D), Governor of North Carolina, her recommendation is to suspend 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 [...]

The House of Representatives just passed a bill to slow down EPA regulations

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Last Friday, the House passed the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act of 2011(H.R.2401). This bill will slow down the onslaught of job-destroying, business-crushing regulations that the EPA forces down our throats. The TRAIN Act will: Keep the EPA from producing regulations that would raise energy prices Reject the EPA’s [...]

Notes from the Syracuse City Council Meeting of September 27, 2011

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While in attendance at the Syracuse City Council Meeting of September 27, 2011 I took the following notes. They’re not the official record, but I post them so there can be another record of events from the meeting to keep the “official” record honest. The following notes are organized according to items on the agenda. [...]