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WB_smoking_ban OPPOSE SB 703! - OPPOSE SB 703! There is so much at stake with this somewhat surprise Bill that popped up in committee over the past week. If you live in NC, please take a moment to write as per below. If you live in New Hanover County Government, NC, please write your senators, but also give Thom Goolsby [...]
Smoke-free Wrightsville Beach Send a Letter to your State Senators to Oppose SB 703 - Proposed bill would overturn Wrightsville Beach smoking ban http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=S703 Please take a moment to write your legislators! Sample Letter: I respect the rights of citizens and local governments in determining how they want to regulate their communities. SB 703 is designed to overturn a referendum voted in place by a strong majority of the citizens [...]
WB_smoking_ban Proposed bill would overturn Wrightsville Beach smoking ban - By: Breanna Walden WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. — The heated debate over banning smoking on the beach reignites. Last November, an overwhelming number of Wrightsville Beach residents voted to make the beach smoke-free. “I have done beach clean ups before and there’s a lot of cigarette butts, whether it’s on the beach strand or the street, [...]
generic_news Goodwin touts settlement at NC-20 meeting - By MIKE SHUTAK NEW BERN — The state’s insurance commissioner told an audience here Friday his department’s recent settlement on homeowners policy rates, which raises premiums for coastal counties, spared property owners from much higher requested increases. But one coastal legislator said the commissioner “caved” in his negotiations with insurers. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin spoke [...]
_P7C2175 RUGGLES SAVED - Inspiring cooperation between the City of Newport, DOT, CRMC, and passionate surfers halts destructive plans By Matt Pruett Less than two weeks after we first learned of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s plans via a Coastal Resources Management Council application to repair Newport’s famed Cliff Walk post-Sandy with expeditious construction that would ultimately destroy [...]
Whale_Polar_Bear Coastal legislators push for elimination of all NC ferry tolls - By Bruce Siceloff — bsiceloff@newsobserver.com Norman Sanderson survived his freshman year in the state House of Representatives somehow, even after he voted to impose tolls on his fellow ferry commuters in Craven and Pamlico counties. Now a first-term senator, Sanderson has updated his position on the state’s plan to jack up the rates for three [...]
plans1 Duck to examine adding taxes for shoreline work - Rob Morris | April 2, 2013 A 2-cent tax increase will be part of upcoming budget discussions in Duck as officials look at starting work on widening about a mile and a half of the town’s shoreline. Two cents per $100 of valuation would raise about $300,000 toward engineering work, deciding on sources of sand [...]
Turtle Coastal reserve advisory panels to meet - By Mike Voss Advisory committees for the Zeke’s Island and Rachel Carson elements of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Permuda Island, Bald Head Woods and Bird Island coastal reserves meet this month. The committees comprised of local residents, partners and leaders provide the Division of Coastal Management’s Coastal Reserve and National [...]