EDITORIAL: Property rights: Starting over sounds like a good idea with regard to evaluating state property for sale. The commission handling it is a mess.(Editorial)

From: News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Date: March 21, 2007 | Copyright information

Mar. 21--The N.C. Commission on State Property hasn't done its job very well. And contrary to some past bureaucratic snafus, the legislature appears ready to pull the plug on this one. Good. Because in addition to not doing much -- the commission has never produced a sale -- it appeared to be the special baby of Jim Black, the disgraced former state House speaker now awaiting sentencing on public corruption felonies.

Black supported the group's formation, and its execu...

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