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North Carolina 1, Wal-Mart 0!!!

Submitted by PiercesBBQ on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 4:48pm.

Great news. Just read on the Wake Up Wal-Mart blog that after a six year battle, the residents of Union County have successfully deflected the attempts by Wal-Mart to build a new supercenter.

Is North Carolina beating Wal-Mart?

Submitted by PiercesBBQ on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 10:10am.

As some of you may know, Wal-Mart is trying to sneak its way out of paying $30 million in North Carolina taxes. Well, taxpayers won a small (but important) victory yesterday when a Wake County judge ruled that Wal-Mart had to make public thousands of pages of documents. That means internal memos and strategy papers will come out of the shadows. (More after the jump)

Frontpaged by A. Thanks for catching this one for us.

Wal-Mart Cheating Us Out of Taxes

Submitted by PiercesBBQ on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 3:31pm.

Wal-Mart is refusing to pay North Carolina $30 million in unpaid taxes.

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And Helms begat Reagan...


Arguably, Ronald Reagan's Helms enabled win in the 1976 NC primary was all the encouragement he needed to try again in 1980, setting the stage for the Reagan Revolution and synergistic escapades like this one...

TrueMeckDem on Myers Park Pat

"My opinion of Pat has changed over the years. I used to think he was truly a man of the people but the longer he has been mayor, the less I think of him.

As with most cities, Charlotte has three political parties: Dem, Rep, and Chamber of Commerce. Pat is definitely the puppet of the COC here. What is good for business is good for Charlotte and Pat ... very personable guy, he has gotten a bunch of Dems in these parts to vote for him but I don't trust him."

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