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April 22, 2005
North Carolina Politics At Its Finest
There's nothing like good government. Unfortunately, here in North Carolina, there really is nothing even resembling good government. The latest flak in the air is a conflict between Democrat Governor Mike Easley and the Democrat controlled legislature. It seems that there's a valuable piece of real-estate in downtown Charlotte that the state wants to dispose of. The legislature wants to sell the land to a culinary school for $1. Mike Easley is trying to short-circuit the deal by selling the land to a developer for $5.25million. That's about as simple as I can explain it, because it's a really convoluted situation involving a bidding process cut short, a lack of bids and other weirdness. This is also notable because it is a revenue-raising move being taken by Easley that doesn't involve tax hikes or a lottery. Maybe old "Tax Hike Mike" is finally learning something, or maybe a blind squirrel can still find a nut every once in a while.
Posted by Lockjaw at April 22, 2005 2:01 PM
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