Pending a third-reading vote today, the Senate’s on the verge of supporting a ban on shrimp trawling in North Carolina waters other than in the Atlantic Ocean more than a half mile offshore. Senators on Wednesday voted 44-4 in favor of House Bill 442, which unexpectedly got amended in committee this week to include the ban. Proponents […]
Agriculture committee Democrats like Sens. Julie Mayfield of Buncombe County and Lisa Grafstein of Wake County sat quietly through the shrimp debate, obviously bemused by the public intra-Republican discord. Normal service, however, resumed in the afternoon when Rabon as Rules chair quashed Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch’s move to use a rare discharge petition to […]
Here at the Trib and Business North Carolina, we’ve been curious about why Senate Rules chair Bill Rabon, R-New Hanover, is sponsoring Senate Bill 145, which would authorize a new Mecklenburg County transit tax referendum. Rabon says he’s lending a hand because he thinks the bill might need the help of someone who’s “been through […]
