Thom Tillis's attempt to lynch Loretta Lynch

The Greensboro News & Record ~ Editorial Staff wrote;

Thom Tillis said it was his most difficult decision in 45 days as a U.S. senator to oppose Greensboro native Loretta Lynch’s confirmation as attorney general.

It didn’t seem hard for him at all. While he made condescending comments about Lynch’s family “beaming with pride” at her confirmation hearing last month, noting “she was raised right,” he was clearly against her from the start.

“By all indications, Ms. Lynch would continue to pursue the costly and frivolous lawsuit against the state of North Carolina to overturn a common-sense and constitutionally sound voter ID law,” Tillis said in a statement issued before Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.


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Congratulations to Wilson resident

This year’s ACLU Frank Porter Graham Award, the highest honor awarded for longstanding and significant contributions to the fight for individual freedom and civil liberties in North Carolina, is being presented to Dr. Jim Grant, who has worked to advance and defend civil liberties in North Carolina for nearly as long as the ACLU of North Carolina has existed.

Mr. Grant was incarcerated for nearly four years in the 1970s after being arrested and charged as a “political terrorist” in a case in which the government paid witnesses against him and two other African American men, known collectively as the “Charlotte Three.”

Mr. Grant received the longest sentence of 25 years. The many injustices around the case garnered national attention, and their sentences were eventually commuted.

He will be honored at the ACLU-NC’s 2015 Frank Porter Graham Awards Dinner in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 28, featuring keynote speaker, National ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.

Source: ACLU/NC

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CONGRATULATIONS Joe Davis

Sitting in a meeting recently , waiting to get started, a friend shared an article about a man who was in the running for the position of superintendent in a place considered volatile after the shooting of Michael Brown. That place of course being Ferguson, Missouri. That friend being his mother, Wanda Davis. As I handed her back her cell phone, I asked her how she felt about that. She nodded and said "It's alright. As long as it's alright with him. I love my son and I back my children."
A mother's support and love is always a blessing to behold. Congratulations to you both.

Wilsonian becomes new Ferguson-Florissant Superindentent,

Joe Davis

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The Wilson Solar Owners Network

The Wilson Solar Owners Network is a group of residential solar system owners challenging the City of Wilson (COW) for their right to produce solar energy and use it on their own systems. Sounds pretty straightforward doesn't it.

So what's the problem. The COW, Wilson Energy and the right of  a citizen to exercise their rights in Wilson NC. Sounds familiar doesn't it. There's a term used often these days that applies to this situation ... It's called government over-reach.

We recently came across this group of solar homeowners on facebook and connected the dots when we read a recent news article, 'Council stalls energy policy change'.

Here are a couple posts from their FB page. We all can lend our community support to this worthy cause. Stop by and LIKE their page. We all know the cost of high utility bills in Wilson.

(Feb 20th)
Every day...especially on bright sunny days like today...the 11 or so homes that have installed solar panels in the Wilson Energy distribution system are cranking out clean, renewable energy. BUT...Wilson Energy SEIZES all that solar energy. They won't allow the owners to use the energy they are producing! Wilson Energy SEIZES the energy, pays the owner about 4 cents per kilowatt hour, then resells that energy to to the owner at the retail rate of 13.1 cents per kilowatt hour.... The owner NEVER gets to uses his solar power before it is sent to Wilson Energy. This is outrageous and is the reason there are so few residential or small business solar panel systems in the 30,000 customer base of Wilson Energy. How can a City Council allow this unjust, unethical practice to go on? The same reason our electric rates are among the highest in the state? When is Wilson going to get on board with renewable energy, saving the planet and reversing climate change?


(Feb 19th)
Wilson City Council DOES hate solar. We thought we were on the precipice of a change that would make solar generation system ownership more attractive in our community. However, tonight at the City Council meeting, in the 11th hour, after months of negotiation and compromise, Councilman Logan Liles asked that the Council delay the vote on the revised Renewable Energy Policy - the very one that the City Staff met with us on just last week - until the Duke buyout is complete later in the year. All Council members except Tom Fyle, voted to table the matter. Thank you, Mr. Fyle for taking a stand...just too bad you were alone.

We should have anticipated this turn of events given the City Manager "threatened" in an email to us back on January 30th to recommend delaying the action - just like it happened.
If you want change in Wilson, please email or call your Council Representative and demand that Wilson join this century and encourage solar generation rather than squash it. Green, clean energy is the future. Why is Wilson so slow to join the fight to save the planet? Why does Wilson want to continue to support dirty Duke energy that is causing so much damage to the environment and to the climate? As it stands now, the City of Wilson continues to steal solar energy from system owners and stay dependent on dirty energy. It is a sad state of affairs.
We will continue to fight for solar justice. It's the right thing to do and way past time for the City's antiquated policy to change. We are not going away. We will continue to fight.

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Piggly Wiggly or Walmart

Is there really room enough for both ...

Wilson City Council Members approved a rezoning plan that paves the way for a second Walmart Neighborhood Market to locate across the street from Piggly Wiggly on Ward Blvd. Never mind there's already a Superstore located less than TWO MILES away.

At the recent Council meeting, an attorney representing Piggly Wiggly, voiced the company's concern to build a grocery store across from theirs. So much for 'shop local' efforts in our small town community against such a conglomerate as Walmart.

Attorney Robert Rountree indicated Piggly Wiggly company leaders are considering their presence to remain open in the Wilson area should Walmart locate at the planned site.

Rountree commented,"I would hope that the council would consider the impact of losing a grocer that has been operating in Wilson and in other small eastern North Carolina towns for over 20 years.”

"I realize this is a relatively straight forward zoning issue,” Rountree said. "Yet, I think, it has huge implications for the future of our city.”

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Enough Is Enough

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Solar Energy is the Future

Did You Know ...
Wilson NC has a Solar Owners Network? If you've driven along 301 Hwy going North toward Rocky Mount, you've probably noticed a beautiful array of solar panels are lined strategically in a field off to the right.

Not knowing, we thought it was a project the COW had initiated.
However, not so. Check this out ! 

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