Raleigh

The City of Raleigh Planning Commission meets May 21st to decide on a rezoning that will impact the lives of 160 families as well as anyone planning on driving in North Raleigh for the next 30 years.

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Hillary Raleigh Office Headquarters Opening Party

This is our first get-together and will serve as an organizational meeting. We will meet, greet and eat as we discuss creative ways to support our candidate, Hillary Clinton. Local legislators have been invited to attend. Hillary Clinton Meetups are the place to connect and organize with Hillary supporters in your area. Together we can make things happen for Hillary in 2008. So, let's get out there and show everyone that Hillary really is "our girl!" To join this NC meetup group got to http://hrclinton.meetup.com/114/ and join up. It's fast, free and simple. Hope to see you there!

Hi Again Everyone, Well, we have finally nailed down a location for our even thanks to Lea, and in spite of a few speedbumps, not to be confused with roadblocks :)), and have a concrete location and time for our event!! This is a very exciting time, and I expect this meetup to be equally so!! Below is a link to the mapquest location for Lea's home which she has been so generous in offering to facilitate our event. I look forward to meeting eveyone and making things happen!! As always, feel free to contact me for anything. Best, and remember "YES SHE WILL!!."

As y'all may or may not have heard, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, has decided to move to Raleigh. I don't really think it's a good idea for many reasons, but regardless, one item about the move jumped out at me when I read this morning's article in the FayOb:

"The Associated Press reported late Wednesday that a letter from a real estate agent
showed the law school intends to move into a downtown Raleigh building, owned by a company held by former state legislator Art Pope."

Military families at heavily deployed bases like Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune are communities at war without their country. Never in our history have so few been asked to sacrifice so much while so many are asked to do nothing at all. Too many Americans hear about the war in Iraq on the evening news, switch off their TV's and sleep well at night confident that the yellow ribbon magnet they bought for their car last week is a sufficient sacrifice. My two military children have sacrificed more before age 10 than the grown men in Washington four times their age who beat the loudest drums to send their Daddy off to war...

A few days ago I heard a disturbing report on the news as I was preparing dinner. In a nutshell, I recall the reporter saying that Charlotte was ranked third in a listing of cities with the most contaminated water in the nation. I didn't get to hear the entire piece, but went looking for it to bring it here and to find out what in the world was going on. I couldn't find it anywhere.

Now I know why.

The listing was in Men's Health magazine. The listing has now been thoroughly debunked in today's Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte has the third-dirtiest drinking water in the country, Men's Health magazine says.

"Pure hogwash," retorts Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities spokesman Vic Simpson. "Men's Health needs to stick to sit-ups and health shakes."

Dayum! Vic's got his snark on.

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