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		<title>POLITICS: Powerful politicians sparse in WNC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REGIONAL–It&#8217;s a familiar complaint in the mountains: tax money, like water, runs downhill to Raleigh and never comes back.
The Asheville Citizen-Times&#8216; Joel Burgess contributed a history yesterday of western North Carolina&#8217;s under-representation in high-power state politics, quoting WCU faculty member Richard Starnes along the way and naming Jackson County&#8217;s Lacy Thornburg as an exception to [...]


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		<title>Thornburg tosses Cliffside lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE&#8211;Federal Judge Lacy Thornburg, of Webster, dismissed on Thursday an environmental lawsuit challenging Duke Energy&#8217;s construction of a $2.4 billion addition to its Cliffside coal-fired power plant.
Rather than a judgment on the validity of the suit, however, Thornburg&#8217;s ruling seems to be a technicality. Thornburg noted that both state and federal courts are being asked [...]


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		<title>Judge Lacy Thornburg to retire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATE/REGIONAL&#8211;Federal Judge Lacy Thornburg, a Webster resident, will retire in August.
The Raleigh News and Observer reports today that Thornburg announced his plans in a letter to court employees.
The 79-year-old Thornburg has served for 14 years on the federal bench and also served two terms as N.C. attorney general, 16 years as a Superior Court judge [...]


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		<title>Division of Air Quality sides with Duke Energy at Cliffside</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE&#8211;State air regulators on Friday granted Duke Energy&#8217;s request to treat the new 800-megawatt Cliffside 6 power generating unit it is building west of Charlotte as a “minor source” of pollution.
The designation could allow Duke to sidestep the public process of analyzing and installing the most stringent controls to reduce hazardous pollutants such as mercury. [...]


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		<title>Thornburg rules for North Carolina against TVA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE–Federal judge Lacy Thornburg, of Webster, ruled in favor of North Carolina in its lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority yesterday, and ordered the TVA to install pollution control systems on its four plants closest to the North Carolina border.
From Clarke Morrison&#8217;s story in the Asheville Citizen-Times:
Judge Lacy Thornburg said in his order that pollution [...]


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