At approximately 11:56 A.M. today, President-Elect Barack Obama will take the Oath of Office for President of the United States of America.
The Oath of Office for President is short and simple. It details the most important part of the job, though, and has remained unchanged for the entirety of the United States’ existence.
I do [...]
According to the Raleigh News and Observer’s political blog, Under the Dome, the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition has submitted their wish-list for federal stimulus money. The list includes projects for the infrastructure improvements in Jacksonville which total over $11 million.
The full list is below:
Cold Patch Asphalt Storage
$ 80,000
Red Oak Culvert Replacement
$ 200,000
FY [...]
Even before Ms. Becky Pollard was sworn in as Onslow County’s Register of Deeds, her husband, former State Senator and former member of the NC Department of Transportation Board, Tommy Pollard was lobbying the Onslow County Board of Commissioners to give his wife a raise.
Lindell Kay reports in the Jacksonville Daily News:
Tommy Pollard passed out [...]
North Carolina’s early voting period begins Thursday (October 16th).
The Onslow County Board of Elections will have four sites maintained for the early voting period:
Jacksonville Commons Rec. Center
Swansboro Middle School Annex
Tar Landing Baptist Church
Verona Fire Station
These locations will be open from 8:00am to 5:00pm on weekdays and on Saturday (November 1st) from 8:00am to 1:00pm. [...]
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that “civil unions” aren’t the same as marriage and that prohibiting same-sex couples to marry is unconstitutional.
Reuters.
The court found that the state’s law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.
For those keeping score, Connecticut is the third state (with Massachusetts and California) to allow [...]
The previously mentioned Jacksonville Daily News article has been published.
My above linked previous post sets the premise of the article, so I won’t repeat it here. I will point out new information, though.
Like Jacksonville Mayor Sammy Phillips’ bogus claim that the City has “done a lot” to promote alternative transportation:
“We’re certainly proud of that designation,” [...]
CERN will fire up the Large Hadron Collider.
They’ve said previously that nothing bad will happen.
I figure it’s a 50/50 crap-shoot.
Technorati Tags: CERN,Large Hadron Collider,Cosmic Log,Technology,Science,World News,Glad to Know File,European Organization for Nuclear Research,Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
Yet another Jacksonville Daily News poll doesn’t make sense to readers.
Today I discovered the poll to the left regarding the construction of a 75-feet tall building in downtown. No mention of what downtown, where or when this building is being constructed. I searched recent Daily News articles and didn’t find anything mentioning a [...]
MSNBC’s Cosmic Log reports.
Europe’s CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. The [...]
While the City of Jacksonville has a ginormous budget (and the debt to go with it), the Onslow County Board of Commissioners chose to cut back and pull funds from the reserve account.
The Jacksonville Daily News reports.
The commissioners were presented a budget plan that called for increasing the tax rate from 50.3 cents per [...]
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