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Basnight to resign effective January 25.

A study of non-metered New York apartments shows what most of us intuitively understand. When people don't have to pay for something, they're likely to use it without restraint.

Con Edison counts about 250,000 apartments across the city, not including public housing projects, that do not have individual meters tracking electricity consumption, compared with roughly 1.75 million that do. One large management company, Cooper Square, estimates that these units expend at least 30 percent more electricity year-round than their counterparts.

Senator Marc Basnight sure makes it hard for progressives to stick with the Democratic Party. And while this particular year doesn't feature the worst of his political arrogance, his recent behind-the-scenes power play leaves me looking for the door.

Chris Fitzsimon has the run-down.

After the provision was discovered, Senate budget writers said they didn't know it was in there or which Senator requested it. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight finally admitted that the provision came from his office and that he was upset about homeowner insurance rates on the coast that came from the Coastal Property Insurance Pool developed last year by Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin.

The non-tempest in a teapot stirred up by right-wing haters of public education has found its way to the desk of Marc Basnight, who appears unfamiliar with the fact that there are four grades in high school, not just the 11th. Dome reports that Basnight got his knickers in a knot over an uninformed story that US history in high school would start in 1877, with reconstruction. Fortunately, Superintendent Atkinson is on the scene to set the record straight.

It's hard to question anyone who's 70 years old and wants to get out the sausage factory in Raleigh. But on the heels of Tony Rand's rapid fall from grace, you'll be forgiven for wondering if something smells a little fishy around David Hoyle's recent announcement.

For all his imperial power, Marc Basnight still has a way with words, as evidenced in his letter last week to thick-headed admirals in the US Navy. The Elizabeth City Daily Advance has the story.

“The people of northeastern North Carolina do not wish to have an outlying landing field constructed in their community,” Basnight’s letter, dated Thursday, states. “The Navy can save the funding on these studies and proceed with a viable alternative, one that does not ruin the foundation of the entire region.”

His viable alternative? Follow me below the fold.

The leadership of the Senate has been working against the bill and has succeeded in weakening support for the racial justice act.

Contact your senator and ask them, Marc Basnight, Tony Rand to support the Racial Justice Act.

Sen. Marc Basnight: (919) 733-6854
Sen. Tony Rand: (919) 733-9892

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State Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare County, and state Rep. Bill Owens, D-Pasquotank County, have asked North Carolina’s congressional delegation to urge Navy officials to move some of the fighter squadrons based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia to Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point.

Knowledgeable people, including many here at BlueNC, have argued for this exact same course of action for nearly two years now. It's nice to see elected officials finally getting their acts together.

In addition to fighting the scourge of plastic bags that litter our coast, Sen. Marc Basnight has another battle on his hands.