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** Corrected ** Henderson Mayor Pro-Tem Ranger Wilkerson called a special meeting of the Henderson City Council to be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall.

Last week Henderson landlords through their representative Attorney Mike Satterwhite made a counterproposal to the City’s proposed Certificate of Occupancy Ordinance.

Senate Bill 1507 Housing Conditions/Inspections would limit a municipality’s authority to address dangerous or unsafe structures by imposing a probable cause standard to inspect for unsafe, unsanitary, or otherwise hazardous conditions in residential buildings.

Editor’s Note: The following report by the North Carolina Housing Coalition verifies something we see played out every day in our classroom in the incessant runny noses, sneezes, coughs, asthmatic attacks, and excessive sick days of our students in poverty. If the human aspect of it doesn’t get to you, then perhaps the $95 million dollar price tag will. Give it a read. The Economic Cost of Substandard Housing Conditions Among North Carolina Children

After finishing up our initial work on the budget, my colleagues and I in the House of Representatives turned our focus this week toward hearing the hundreds of bills that need to clear our chamber by next Thursday if they’re to be considered during this two-year session.

At yesterday’s Finance and Intergovernmental Relations (FAIR) Committee meeting, City Manager Jerry Moss told members that he believes that the city is much cleaner than it was twelve months ago.

Washington, D.C. — Congressmen G. K. Butterfield today applauded House approval of a national defense bill that includes language barring the Navy from building an outlying landing field at a site in North Carolina’s Washington and Beaufort counties.

Editor’s Note: Several readers have expressed an interest in reading documents produced by Team Vance. Home in Henderson has acquired four such documents, and we present them below for your perusal.

U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington), the only N.C. member of the Homeland Security Committee, today called on the departments of Homeland Security and Education to take steps to strengthen school security.

U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington), the only N.C. member of the Homeland Security Committee, and a N.C. State University official will participate in a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday to advocate for stronger security measures at the nation’s schools in light of the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington), the only N.C. member of the Homeland Security Committee, voted Tuesday for legislation that would provide for an additional 50,000 police officers across the nation over the next six years.