Many people who live in states with appointed judges are appalled when they learn some states like North Carolina actually elect our judges. Honestly, I can’t say I disagree with them. To me, electing judges somehow just doesn’t feelright. Judges should be above the political fray as much as possible. That’s why Federal judges are appointed […]
I came across a post a while ago from Dr. Michael Bitzer’s NC-Politics blog, which dealt with the contentious issue of “Sorting Our Polarized Politics.” In light of this week’s rather raucous Presidential debate, I thought it was a pertinent topic for the start of early voting in this year’s State and Federal elections and […]
After taking a couple of months off from meeting, the Red Line Task Force chaired by Davidson Mayor Woods met on Wednesday to get an update on the project. The task force efforts to push the finance plan have been on hold since Norfolk Southern (NSRC) sent a series of letters this past spring that raised […]
The Jennifer Roberts Campaign released a poll last week that shows this race to be much closer than conventional wisdom predicts. The published results show the race at Pittenger(R) 38%, Roberts(D) 37%, Campbell(L) 3%, and a whopping 22% still undecided. Very little polling data is available in the typical Congressional House race, so when anything […]
Over at DavidsonNews.net there is a piece that poses the question Is assessor ignoring Davidson affordable housing rules? In an unfortunate situation, there are Davidson homeowners in the Town’s affordable housing program who after the last revaluation now have homes assessed for more than they can legally sell them according to the rules that keep the homes […]
Watching the election night returns in the new NC Senate 41 district was like watching a train bearing down on a car trapped on the tracks. You could sense the outcome before it hit, even as you hoped it was not going to happen. John Aneralla held a solid lead in early voting showing strong support among […]
On the last day before the runoff election, I received two pieces of mail from the PAC “Citizens for Conservative Leadership, Inc” parroting the tone of Robert Pittenger’s attack adds. More on the PAC here. One was a repeat of an earlier mailing that accused Pendergraph of not doing enough to protect children as sheriff. The other was […]
