WRAL is reporting the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office went on record Friday, (via a 92 page response to Peterson’s Motion for Appropriate Relief) saying that convicted murdered Michael Peterson should not get another day in court. The AG’s office filed it’s opinion, despite Judge Orlando Hudson’s decision last year to hold a hearing on whether Durham County prosecutors withheld evidence during Peterson’s murder trial.
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Archive for February, 2009
28 Feb
Despite alleged new evidence, NC AG says Peterson shouldn’t get another trial
28 Feb
Bill to ban mountaintop removal coal in N.C. introduced
Good News
Source: The Triangulator
Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for electric public utilities in North Carolina to purchase, or use, coal derived from dynamiting mountaintops in southern Appalachia. Half of the coal used to produce electricity in North Carolina is derived from the process, known as mountaintop removal, [...]
28 Feb
Senators Kennedy and Burr Reintroduce Biosecurity Bill
Source: Global Security NewsWire
Two veteran U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced legislation aimed at increasing the safety and security of facilities that handle materials that could be used in acts of bioterrorism, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.) announced yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 22, 2008).
If passed, the Select Agent Program and Biosafety Improvement Act of 2009 would assess [...]
27 Feb
Action Alert: Congressional Hearing on NAIS
Folks over at NoNAIS, have an action alert regarding an upcoming Congressional hearing on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry will hold a hearing on NAIS on March 11. Bills to put NAIS into law, HR875 and companion Senate S814, are being pushed through Congress, as [...]
27 Feb
Are we on the brink of Disaster?
“Violent protests and riots are breaking out everywhere as economies collapse and governments fail. War is bound to follow”.
Michael Klare at Salon examines the current economic meltdown from a global perspective and ask the question, Are we next? It is a must read.
27 Feb
Rep. Brad Miller taking the lead on bankruptcy legislation
Dems plan housing push amid dissent
Source: The Hill
Democrats are prepared to bring the party’s housing bill to the floor Thursday, even as centrist members try to limit one of its key provisions.
Centrist Democrats want to limit the number of people who can get their home loans shrunk by bankruptcy judges.
“We want to make sure [...]
27 Feb
NC GOP Hypocrite of the Day
Myrick asks for money, then opposes bill
Source: Charlotte Observer
The $410 billion spending bill that Rep. Sue Myrick opposed Wednesday included millions of dollars for the Charlotte area that she inserted in the legislation, including $20million to expand the city’s light-rail system.
The Charlotte Republican’s “earmarks,” and others requested last year but stalled by Washington gridlock, are [...]
26 Feb
Anthrax spores don’t match dead researcher’s samples
Source: John Byrne – The RawStory
Poisonous anthrax that killed five Americans in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks doesn’t match bacteria from a flask linked to Bruce Ivins, the researcher who committed suicide after being implicated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a scientist said.
Spores used in the deadly mailings “share a chemical [...]
26 Feb
101 reasons Gov. Bobby Jindal scares me
While some of the projects in the [stimulus] bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes … $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring.’ Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.
Here you will find the list of [...]
