Attorney General for the State of North Carolina argues for the State in this case.  Question at issue: Whether a court may consider a juvenile’s age in a Miranda custody analysis in evaluating the totality of the circumstances and determining whether a reasonable person in the juvenile’s position would have felt he or she was…

click the link at the bottom to see the Politico article.  PPP is a polling firm located in Raleigh, NC.  I like talking about local companies that do good work.  PPP certainly falls into that category and I’ve talked about them for over two years.  Analysis does make a difference: a big difference.   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52249.html

Washington, D.C. – Congressman G. K. Butterfield filed bipartisan legislation that would make deserving World War II U.S. Merchant Marines eligible for veterans’ benefits. “The Merchant Mariners have long and rightly been known as the fourth arm of defense,” Butterfield said. “We need to make that deserving World War II Merchant Marines can receive the…

Maybe the most significant item is No. 7.  But, changing the name (4) is just smoke and mirrors.  Keep the name but make significant headway to make sure mistakes aren’t made in the future.  I know a person who changed the name of his restaurant because it had such a bad reputation.  It didn’t work.  …

Below is a copy of the proposed bill sponsored by Rep. Jeff Collins.  After reading the language of the bill, I’m not even sure this would stand a litigation test (constitutionally and on it’s own merits).  It’s a somewhat poorly written bill.  That may be why everyone else in the House is staying clear of…

Not that speaking English isn’t important, it surely is.  But, all I heard last November was tax cuts and less government, over and over until my ears bled.  My mailbox was inundated with card after card of rhetoric and propaganda all centered around the effort to rid our State of the dysfunctional Democratic machine. Meanwhile,…

Well, everyone’s good at something.  North Carolina is near the top of a new ranking — the state with the largest percentage of couch potatoes.  So, be the best couch potato you can be! Read the article here (from WITN) http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/NC_In_Top_10_Of_Laziest_States_In_America_118569679.html

AN ACT PROVIDING THAT MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITIES SHALL BE SUBJECT 2 TO OVERSIGHT BY THE UTILITIES COMMISSION AS TO RATES AND SERVICE 3 AND THAT THE UTILITIES COMMISSION PUBLIC STAFF SHALL SERVE AS AN 4 ADVOCATE FOR MUNICIPAL CUSTOMERS IN RATE AND SERVICE CASES. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H457v0.pdf Primary Sponsors: Farmer-Butterfield;  Tolson;  Collins;  Bryant;  Co-sponsors: K. Alexander;  Cotham; …

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/HTML/H184v1.html AN ACT to provide that a person elected to a public office in North Carolina or appointed to fill a vacancy in one of those offices who has a concealed handgun permit may carry a concealed handgun and may carry a pocket knife anywhere in the state while holding that office, unless otherwise prohibited…

http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/dcntv?layout=4&clip=flv_7d2e30c1-59aa-449e-a696-e7a383354d9f&autoplay=false&mute=false Watch live streaming video from dcntv at livestream.com The question and answer session of the town hall.   http://www.livestream.com/dcntv/video?clipId=flv_e25212f0-9047-4e08-9ad8-150409607f57