Macon County Commissioners to Review & Discuss Macon County Comprehensive Plan Live Twitter Coverage at 6pm

**11.47pm** Here is the audio of the marathon 3 hour meeting of the Macon County Commissioners. They took apart the recommendations in the Macon County Comprehensive Plan line by line and put it back together again with softer language in place of the hard and demanding tone of the original. Link to Download MP3 Since the meeting was so long, I will process the video in shorter, more watchable segments tomorrow and the next day. The Macon...

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2011 Observance of Memorial Day in Franklin, NC

The 2011 Memorial Day Program was well-attended by the citizens of Macon County. Here is a video and some photos I took at yesterdays observance of Memorial Day in Franklin, NC. The regular portion of the event lasted just under 25 minutes. after that, Six new individual monuments were dedicated to each of the branches of the military. I will have photos and video of that tomorrow. Video of the regular Memorial Day observance. Photo...

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NC General Assembly 05-31-2011 Legislative Calendar Links to Bills and Live Audio Feeds

**Note** After the legislative calendar, I have included information regarding the 2011 Budget information and Committee websites. The new session of the North Carolina General Assembly is well underway and here is the schedule for today. There are lots of committees meeting today, and there are sessions of the NC Senate and the NC House scheduled also. I have included links to bill histories, downloadable PDFs of the current versions of bills...

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Memorial Day Program in Macon County to Feature Dedication of Individual Service Monuments

Six monuments will be unveiled and dedicated at a  Memorial Day program beginning at 11.30am on Monday, May 30, 2011 at the Veterans Memorial Park in Franklin, NC. [Directions to Park] The public is invited to attend and pay their respects to those who gave their lives for the freedoms we enjoy. The sculptor who created these monuments is Alexei Kazantsev, who previously created the "Defending Freedom Since 1775" statue at the entrance...

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NC Senator Jim Davis Discusses State Budget

Jim Davis, Senator from the 50th District in North Carolina, updated local Republicans on the state budget in Raleigh and read a Letter to the Editor of his that was published in the Raleigh News & Observer on May 25th. He assured them that the Republicans in Raleigh were working to reduce the size and cost of the state government and get them off the backs of job creating businesses. He said that the temporary one cent tax that had been...

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Macon County GOP to Honor Media Outlets Live Webcast Starts at 6pm

**8.47pm** I've replaced the live player with the video recorded with my webcam. The Macon County Republican Party will be recognizing six local media outlets for their contribution to the community, and I've been invited to webcast the event live. The coverage will be starting at 6pm on the player below: From the Macon County Republican Party website: The next regular meeting of the Macon County Republican Party will be on...

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NC General Assembly 05-26-2011 Legislative Calendar Links to Bills and Live Audio Feeds

The new session of the North Carolina General Assembly is well underway and here is the schedule for today. There are lots of committees meeting today, and there are sessions of the NC Senate and the NC House scheduled also. I have included links to bill histories, downloadable PDFs of the current versions of bills and links so that you can listen to the audio feed of these meetings live...provided they are taking...

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Wherein Freedom Works Prepares to Commit Suicide

FreedomWorks, one of the largest and most influential national Tea Party groups, is planning to devote its considerable resources toward uniting the grassroots "movement" behind whoever emerges as the most electable alternative to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the Huffington Post reports. “I don’t think I’ve met any groups or any local activists that like him or want him to be president,” Tea Party activist Brendan Steinhauser...

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