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.
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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 [...]
Voters hoping for a change in the City Council leadership when they elected a mostly-new group of representatives in November 2007 may be regretting their choice after Tuesday’s .
The Jacksonville Daily News reports:
With a 5-1 vote - Councilman Randy Thomas cast the dissenting vote - the council approved a $118.1 million budget that, because [...]
This is a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News that I sent today.
It’s also a test of the document upload and embed site, scribd. What do you think?
Letter to the Editor RE Oil Supply 20 June 08 - Upload a Document to Scribd
Read this document on Scribd: Letter to the Editor RE [...]
From NPR’s Morning Edition’s story on California’s legalization of same-sex marriage this morning.
Outside City Hall, hundreds of supporters and some opponents of gay marriage gathered. Those protesting carried signs that said “Re-criminalize Sodomy” and “God Hates Lying Sinners.” Born-again Christian Bill Hampsmire traveled from Fremont to demonstrate against the nuptials.
“I think God is going to [...]