UPDATED: IGTNT diarist MsWings needs our help
MsWings, one of our former I Got the News Today (IGTNT) diarists for several years, is in trouble and has given me permission to write and ask for help.Many of you may know that MsWings had heart...
View ArticleTHANKS! MsWings' Good-News Thursday
Tuesday I wrote a diary on behalf of former IGTNT diarist and longtime Kossack MsWings. After a serious stroke and a series of transient ischemic attacks (TIA, or mini-strokes), she was facing a...
View ArticleSave the soul of Bill in Portland Maine -- then it's yours, all yours!
Shivering even under the erstwhile comfort of the satin and 74,000-threadcount Egyptian cotton bedclothes of Prince Valdebill's undulating, woefully underheated Scooby Doo Kiddie Pool waterbed, young...
View ArticleLosing Cassie ... for now. Time with a friend.
I apologize for writing and not being here to tend to this diary for now. I'm at Duke Hospital today undergoing tests to replace a brain shunt and to take another look at removing a rat-bastard tumor....
View ArticleGREAT NEWS!!, but need a lil help
Full disclosure: I wrote a diary Monday asking for financial help with a friend in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I'm writing a diary today asking for financial help with me here in Cary/Raleigh,...
View ArticleHelp! We need you in Cary & Raleigh, North Carolina!
This is short and sweet. SWEET, I tell you -- SCHA-WEEEEEEET!! Â We're within a cat's whisker of wrapping up North Carolina, but we need your help.I'm at the OFA office in Cary, North Carolina (just a...
View ArticlePardon me, you have your freedom in my responsibility
You don't need me to tell you how it was on November 1, 1991, the day I spent most of an afternoon lying on my belly on the floor of an office in Van Allen Hall on the University of Iowa campus. At the...
View ArticleLearning your place on Earth: Center for Human-Earth Restoration
"We should teach children to see the land, to understand what they see, and enjoy what they understand." -- Aldo Leopold When my friend Iris told me at a group luncheon about the nonprofit organization...
View ArticleMoms Take the Hill: The Rhetoric of Misinformation and Misunderstanding
Yesterday, hundreds of moms, grandmoms, and others were in Washington DC to take part in Moms Take the Hill Day. The event was hosted by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and offered...
View ArticleGun Violence and the March 28 Day of Action in NC Triangle
Weather notwithstanding, things have not been very pretty here in North Carolina the past few weeks. The N.C. General Assembly's fully GOP'ed House and Senate have begun dismembering municipal powers...
View ArticleBreaking: Sen. Kay Hagan "Persuadable" on Gun-Reform Measures
Today is a National Day of Action Against Gun Violence, with activities in nearly 150 locations around the United States. Events were co-hosted by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Organizing for Action,...
View ArticleHow a bill becomes law: The N.C. GOP version
Remember what Schoolhouse Rock told us about how a bill becomes law? Believe none of that. According to Jere Royall, counsel and director of Community Impact at the N.C. Family Policy Council, that's...
View ArticleLobbying against N.C.'s Last-Gasp GOP
I'm spending the afternoon at what has recently become my home-away-from-home, the N.C. General Assembly. Setting up housekeeping in one of the tiny booths of the Telephone Center here was never my...
View ArticleNC-Dem: Kay Hagan finally takes a stand on firearms reform
I'm doing my citizen lobby schtick in one of the indoor courtyards of the General Assembly Building in Raleigh today after two (2 -- count 'em, 2) meetings with Sen. Kay Hagan's staff this morning. In...
View ArticleSign up today: Building voter-protection coalition in North Carolina
Are you interested in opposing the odious bills in North Carolina aimed at preventing people from voting?We're putting together a coalition of activists and citizen lobbyists to protect voting rights...
View ArticleHave you donated a water test kit today?
It's a high-pollen-count day here in North Carolina, so we're all coughing and wheezing our way through the day as best we can. It's one of those days when nature simply refuses to be ignored as a...
View ArticleNorth Carolina: Austerity, schmausterity. Millions of dollars for voter IDs
My friend J and I have taken to haunting the halls of the N.C. General Assembly the past few weeks, dropping off notes and letters and talking with lawmakers regarding various bills that have been...
View ArticleN.C. - Sen. Richard Burr keeps his health insurance as form of protest
It's no secret that Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) hates his healthcare insurance now that it's covered by the Affordable Care Act. Why, the poor beleaguered Republican doesn't even want it anymore, he...
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BREAKING: Americans for Prosperity NC accuses NAACP of planning riots at Gen....
Jeanne Milliken Bonds, a blogger who covers state politics in North Carolina, has been accused by the NC chapter of Americans for Prosperity of colluding with the NC chapter of the NAACP to plan riots,...
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N.C. civil disobedience: Nearly 100 arrested so far for protesting...
More than 200 people gathered May 13 to support the 49 people arrested for peaceably protesting at the N.C General Assembly building in Raleigh, North Carolina. Garrison Keillor opens his monologues...
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