North Carolina Outer Banks
Welcome to North Carolina Open Thread, a new weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight, inspiration and connections as we work on taking back our state from the extreme, money blinded powers that pull the levers here.
Please join us below and every week as we try to Connect, Unite and Act with our community of North Carolina Daily Kos members. Listed below are NC issue diaries from the previous week and they include block buster news stories about fracking, coal plants, Obama Care and news about creating a North Carolina Kossack Google group as an organizational base for communicating and organizing.
Next week I will try to include other news that our bloggers might have missed, but for now, please stop in and say hello. This is the first Daily Kos weekly open thread for a state. For those in other states, please join us as we strive to establish state open threads in all fifty.
North Carolina Open Thread 5/24/15
These are diaries from last week with North Carolina tags. This rescue covers NC related diaries published between 12:00 AM 5/17 to 11:59 PM 5/23. If you know of other North Carolina diaries from last week, please link them below and start a discussion. I hope to gather North Carolina diaries through the week and give them another shot at visibility by re-linking them here.
Obama Care Saves Sight, Obama Care Saves Lives StDD Week 39 By JoanMar
Daily Kos' own ObamaCare guru, Brainwrap, has recently highlighted the story of Luis Lang in a number of posts and on his own website. The story is particularly interesting and noteworthy because Luis Lang is losing his sight but gaining some valuable insight.
Asheville Coal Plant to Retire After High Profile Three Year Campaign By Mary Anne Hilt for DK GreenRoots
This week I want to honor some of the most hard-working activists on our Beyond Coal campaign - Team Asheville in North Carolina. After years of rallies, public meetings, educational forums, leadership from the Asheville City council, letter-writing, and even a visit from TV star Ian Somerhalder, on Tuesday, all that hard work paid off. Duke Energy announced it will retire its filthy Asheville coal plant, the 190th plant to announce retirement during the Beyond Coal campaign.
Breaking- North Carolina granted a stay of execution by Fracking By windsong01
Superior Court Judge of Wake County, Donald W. Stephens, temporarily halts permits pending review of how the states mining and Energy Commission was formed.
Environmental groups have argued that controversial commission was formed in violation of the state constitution. The injunction will temporarily stop the commission form processing or accepting permit applications for hydraulic fracturing drilling units.
Doc's List- Organizing activist Kossacks locally. NC Edition By DocDawg
Life is like a box of chocolates. Last week, when I started issuing the call for North Carolina activist Kossacks to KosMail me their first names, ZIP codes, and email addresses, I figured the resulting list would take quite some time to grow to useful size, and that sooner or later the result would come in handy...although I really wasn't quite sure how. I was completely wrong on the first count, and I've already been pleasantly surprised on the second.
Organizing Kossacks locally is an important and powerful tool...especially here in reddish-purple North Carolina, where we are struggling to take back our state. Meet me below the orange gerrymander to learn more about why, and how.
Rev Barber Reports On NC Lawsuit Against Gov McCrory, Sen Tiilis and Sen Berger By Leslie Salzillo
Rev. Dr. William Barber II, former Netroots speaker and founder of Moral Mondays, along with Forward Together and the NC NAACP, released a new date for the NC NAACP v. McCrory trial. The lawsuit alleges voter suppression in North Carolina, and the trial is now slated for July 13, 2015, in Winston Salem. There is also a massive 'North Carolina Is Our Selma' march scheduled on that same day that will most likely become historic. So if you're in the neighborhood…
DKos Asheville: Open Thread, Local Edition By randallt
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread for Saturday, May 23rd. We try to get together every weekend to share with everyone what we're all up to in Western North Carolina and beyond. We hope this group and others serve to invigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement. DKos Asheville and other local and state groups can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who we stand with, work with, and share with. We hope this local and wider community can help leverage our orange passion for progressive politics to elect more and better Democrats.