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On Tuesday night, Greensboro's City Council voted 8-1 to pass a resolution opposing Amendment One on May's ballot. Parts of the live blog from Yes! Weekly are here.

There will be and have been a lot of reflections on Dr. King's life today and this weekend. In recent years, I've taken this opportunity to reflect on his wife, Coretta, as I will do again here.

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery at Coretta's funeral a few years ago sums it up well. Watch the whole video, it's worth it.

Be sure to check in at about 1:05 through 2:00.

But in the morning,will words become deeds that meet needs?

North Carolina has the second-longest federal judicial emergency in the nation.

Now that the NC General Assembly has finished passing the Does-Nothing-About-Divorce Amendment, it's time to look at the text of the bill and discover the truth about the law.

First, it's been reported that the amendment will be on a ballot in May. It ain't necessarily so. Take a look at the text of the bill. It reads:

The amendment set out in Section 1 of this act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the State at a statewide election to be held on the date of the first primary in 2012, which election shall be conducted under the laws then governing elections in the State

With the state still recovering from Irene, a string of severe storms last night, and massive unemployment, these two NC GOP leaders decide it would be a great time to hold a press conference on ... gay marriage.

Roy Cooper, please tell the Obama administration you will not sign on to the mortgage whitewash.

Thom Tillis opens mouth and inserts foot.

Tillis was married once -- then divorced -- then married again in Massachusettes.

And he has the audacity to say that gay marriages are less stable than straight marriages?

Outrageous!

Tillis = hypocrite

Great editorial at the Asheville Citizen-Times

Tillis said only about 7,000 jobs could be cut among the 300,000 budgeted positions in state government and in public schools, community colleges and our university system.

Only 7,000?

That's still a pretty callous figure to be bragging about.

What fresh idiocy is this?

From the latest version of the "Voter ID" bill:

(b) No registered voter shall be eligible for a North Carolina voter identification card if that registered voter has a valid unexpired drivers license, learner's permit, provisional license, or a special identification card for nonoperators issued under G.S. 20-37.7.

So, these idiots are going to require people to have a photo ID to vote, and then bar people from getting a voter ID.