January 25, 2010 — Georgia Insurance Commissioner and prominent Republican candidate for governor John Oxendine was told Monday by the state Dept. of Natural Resources that he and his companions on a Jan. 17 quail-hunting trip should take a hunting safety course. Oxendine’s 13-year-old son accidentally shot a man in that hunting party, who sustained superficial wounds. Oxendine said Monday that he’ll take the course, but he added that he doesn’t need a state hunting permit because he hunts only on private reserves; he also said that the mishap wasn’t as big a deal as has been reported. ““No one is asked to stop driving a car because of an auto accident,” he said at a forum for gubernatorial candidates. --Pork projects for state legislators is a big reason why the state of Texas has wasted almost $1 billion of money that was supposed to be used for transportation improvements since 1991 but wasn’t, claims the Forth Worth Star-Telegram. --A staggering one million-plus new jobs need to be created in North Carolina over the next 10 years, says the US Chamber of Commerce. That would replace jobs lost in the state during the recession, and add new ones needed to meet expected population growth. The total number of jobs needing to be created nationwide is 20 million, says the chamber. --A 2005 water-rights lawsuitt filed by the Mississippi state attorney general against the city of Memphis has been dismissed by the US Supreme Court. The suit had alleged that Memphis has been stealing roughly one-third of its drinking water from Mississippi by pumping excessive amounts from an aquifer that runs beneath portions of Mississippi and western Tennessee. The high court denied Mississippi’s motion to overturn an appellate court’s 2009 ruling. Apparently all the pumping by Memphis has re-channeled water from where it has long flowed, underneath Mississippi, to underneath Memphis. |
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