July 16, 2010

Fetzer, Berger react to Highway Patrol commander's resignation

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 4:23 PM

From the N.C. Republican Party:

NCGOP CHAIRMAN TOM FETZER'S STATEMENT ON RESIGNATION OF RANDY GLOVER 

Raleigh – NCGOP Chairman Tom Fetzer released the following statement regarding Randy Glover's resignation as the commander of the State Highway Patrol.  

"Colonel Glover's decision today is in the best interest of the highway patrol and the many fine men and women who wear its uniforms.  North Carolina's citizens should be grateful to the members of the media for shedding light on this situation, forcing action that should have been taken weeks ago."

4:35 update: Just after posting the original blog entry, a separate news release arrived from Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger's office:

Berger Responds to Glover Resignation

Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) made the following statement in connection with the announcement of Colonel Randy Glover’s resignation from his post as State Highway Patrol Commander.

“Colonel Glover’s resignation is the first step in restoring the morale and the hard-earned reputation of the State Highway Patrol as a first rate law enforcement agency. Now it is incumbent upon Governor Perdue to effectively address the ongoing issues that are plaguing the State Highway Patrol and appoint a new commander who is qualified to lead it.”

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Re: Unemployment

Posted by Joseph Coletti at 3:00 PM

It may be the end of the good news for unemployment, but the news this month isn't even that good. Unemployment is down, but the big reason is that people dropped out of the labor force.

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New Carolina Journal Online features

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 1:58 PM

The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Anthony Greco's CarolinaJournal.tv report on the first new tax associated with ObamaCare: a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning salons.

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End of the good unemployment news in NC?

Posted by Joseph Coletti at 12:52 AM

The US Senate, including the troika of New England Republicans, set the stage for passage of another 2,000-page bill that will remake North Carolina's economy.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield recently announced plans to consolidate offices throughout the Triangle and take other steps to cut costs by 20 percent so it can comply with the health care law.

Bank of America has already begun changing the way it does business to comply with the soon-to-be-signed financial overregulation bill and is adjusting to the new normal of low lending.

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N.C. unemployment rate dips to 10.0 percent, still exceeds national average

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 10:34 AM

North Carolina's unemployment rate continues to drop, but the state spent its 16th straight month in double-digit unemployment territory in June.

Joe Coletti credits economic uncertainty as a key factor slowing North Carolina's recovery from the economic slump. He discusses the issue here and in the video clip below.

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More plumbers, grocers, and mechanics, please

Posted by Dr. Karen Y. Palasek at 10:24 AM

George Leef's interview on the wisdom of the mantra that every HS grad must go to college really hit home with me today.
As part of a graduate student team consulting with a rural school system in the Midwest, I have been interviewing parents, teachers and taxpayers. One of the things that appears often in the commentary is the fact that parents and students have been told and sold on the idea that college for every kid is imperative.
The result? Their kids graduate from college and can find no jobs in the local community, unless they take minimum wage jobs at places like McDonald's (a great place to get a first leg up, not a great destination for college-educated students trained for white-collar work).
So most graduates leave for better opportunities, the community is steadily shrinking, and at the same time it's starving for a supply of grocers, plumbers, barkeeps, farmers, mechanics and others with the necessary technical and manual skills to keep ordinary activities humming.

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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail

Posted by David N. Bass at 08:20 AM

• Democrats are leading the fundraising game, but the GOP is closing the gap, reports The Associated Press.


• Recently passed gift ban won’t stunt Charlotte's campaign to host the Democrats' convention in 2012.


• Bill Randall, an African-American Republican candidate in the 13th Congressional District, condemns the NAACP’s resolution on racism in the tea party.


• NBC-17 TV in Raleigh reports on the tea party movement going into the November election.


• Republican fundraisers coalesce around GOP'er Cook, but Democrat Williams has a seemingly insurmountable cash-on-hand advantage in N.C. House 6.


• U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has a 10-percentage point lead over Elaine Marshall in a new poll conducted by WRAL-TV in Raleigh.


• Burr ad mocks Marshall fundraising trip.


• The N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation explores how the partisan numbers fall in the state House leading into the general election.

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Marching along the road to serfdom

Posted by George Leef at 08:13 AM

Read this amazing piece about one of the early skirmishes against Obamacare. A number of surgeons in Idaho protest Obamacare's reduction of their income and get nailed with an antitrust prosecution.

Obama is glad when unions try to get more from employers, but in our Alice in Wonderland nation, doctors who fight against the government's lowering of their earnings get hauled into court.

One of the features of the rule of law as we used to know it was that all people enjoyed the same rights. One of the features of monarchies and dictatorships is that some people are favored and others are trodden upon. The US is rapidly moving away from the former and toward the latter.

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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 07:15 AM

Terry Stoops will explain why a recent survey of North Carolina college professors raises some concerns about questions used on the state’s public school end-of-course tests.

Plus we’ll hear from a pair of experts associated with the Cato Institute. Transportation expert Randal O’Toole will discuss the best responses to gridlock on our highways, while economist Arnold Kling will explain how increased competition among government agencies could improve public services.

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New Carolina Journal Online features

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 07:03 AM

This week's Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features Donna Martinez's conversation with George Leef about efforts to ster more high school graduates toward college.

David Bass' guest Daily Journal examines the potential impact of a nasty Republican primary on the 8th District congressional race.

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