Government Jobs Untouched by the Great Recession
By Don Carrington
RALEIGH — Public sector employment levels in North Carolina have been stable since the start of the recession in December 2007. It would take a loss of 63,000 government jobs to match the nearly 9 percent net loss that has occurred in the private sector during that time.

John Hood’s Daily Journal

Flashback: Newspeak on Immigration
The next time you see a newspaper or TV station refer to “undocumented workers,” you may properly conclude that it is no longer practicing journalism.

Headlines

6.13.11 – Perdue vetoes budget, says it moves NC backward

6.13.11 – GOP plows through agenda

6.13.11 – Perdue has more vetoes in mind

6.13.11 – Budget’s constitutionality disputed

6.13.11 – N.C. House Speaker Tillis gives his staff fat raises

6.13.11 – Illegal immigrant bill was diluted before passing House

6.13.11 – NC House passes voter ID bill, but little impact seen

6.13.11 – Holding may seek attorney general’s office

6.13.11 – Banks getting bailout relief

6.13.11 – Major wager in Cherokee

6.13.11 – Mergers reduce agencies overseeing mental-health services

6.13.11 – Mecklenburg County presses hospital system

6.13.11 – Triangle transit plans focus on buses now, trains later

6.13.11 – ‘Town’ of Rougemont just a vote away now

6.13.11 – N.C. stops equivocating: It’s Blackbeard’s boat

Upcoming Events

Monday, June 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Noon
A meeting of the Shaftesbury Society
with our special guest David W. Schnare, Esq. Ph.D.
“None of the Above – A Sensible Energy Policy”

Monday, June 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Noon
A meeting of the Shaftesbury Society
with our special guest Dr. Peter Frank
“Markets and Government at a Crossroads: Higher Education and the Intensifying Debate on the Foundations of Capitalism”

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM
A North Carolina History Project Lecture
with our special guest Judge John M. Tyson
“I Am The Hardest Working Man In The Country”: President James K. Polk and Presidential Goals

Today’s Opinions

Easley and Edwards
Perhaps being a self-made politician is dangerous says Scott Mooneyham. When you need very few helping hands on the way to the top, it becomes too easy to believe that the rules don’t apply to you.

GOP catches on fast
Rob Christensen says that you may or may not like their results, but you have to tip your hat to Phil Berger and Thom Tillis’ legislative craftsmanship.

Shifting responsibility
Paul O’Connor says that if North Carolina increasingly shifts public-school financing responsibility to counties and tells UNC campuses to find their own money, legislators will lose control over both.