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Sunday, July 18, 2004

The Big-Bucks Empowerment Zone

A headline in this morning's Raleigh N&O nicely sums up the just-completed session of the N.C. legislature, a.k.a., The Best Little Whorehouse in Raleigh: "Special interests get their way." And not just the billboard industry. Read the article to get a sense of the vastness of the money iceberg that sank honest state government.

// posted by J.W. Williamson @ 7/18/2004 11:54:00 AM

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.

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