SO MANY COUNTIES
The state lottery is up and running, and as predicted the poorest counties are spending the most money per capita on lottery tickets. Data taken from
here. Income data taken from
here.
* Wilson, $6.72, average income: 33,655
* Nash, $6.70, average income: 37,396
* Vance, $5.43, average family income: 30,230
* McDowell, $5.23, average family income: 31,791
* Martin, $5.12, average family income:29,128
* Edgecombe, $4.89, average family income:31,432
* Lenoir, $4.81, average family income:30,952
* Washington, $4.80, average family income: 28,211
As a comparison here are the expenditures for Chatham and Orange County:
* Wake, $2.99, average family income: 56,945
* Chatham, $2.39, average family income 44,089
* Orange,$1.90: 45,292
MECKLENBURG COUNTY
Mecklenburg County Democratic representative Drew Saunders had
this to say about the effect of gifts on the legislative process: ""Even the baby Jesus accepted gifts, and I don't think it corrupted him."
Well, put for a Jesus/baby-faced representative. I just hope he gets an advance on the gold and myrhh he'll surely receive in heaven for his unique and pragmatic extrication of modern theological questions.
FRANKLIN COUNTY/WAKE COUNTY
Franklin Wake
county line clash
CARTERETT COUNTY
Student in Carterett County (New Port, NC), are
protesting the Bush Administration's move to sell parts of the Croatan National Forest, and nearly 10,000 acres in North Carolina. Mark Rey, under secretary of agriculture, explained in unambiguous language to a room full of 6th graders that selling the land was necessary to preserve arts and sports programs in their schools. Representative Charles H. Taylor, a powerful NC Congressman and chairman of the appropriations subcommittee has spoken out against the arrangement.
The New York Times teaches us: "Around Newport and Morehead City, expensive homes and condominiums are mushrooming at a rate that makes Carteret County one of the fastest-growing counties in North Carolina."
And therefore students have responded:
""I have lived here all my life, and when I was little it was much prettier. We keep adding all these houses."
