LOD: Resolved, For and Against

Citizens in Rowan County gave their county commissioners an earful for wasting time with a resolution calling for photo IDs in local elections. The town council in nearby East Spencer echoed the dissent by adopting a resolution that said, the “Voter ID bill would cause more problems with widespread voter disenfranchisement than it could possibly solve.” Yesterday in Kinston, the Lenoir County Commissioners tabled a resolution calling for photo IDs (“I don’t think it’s right to take up our time, discussing and fussing over this issue,” said one board member), but commissioners in Montgomery, Stanly and Union counties have adopted pro-ID resolutions recently. On the other side of the nation, the city council of Los Angeles adopted a resolution calling for federal and state action to amend the US Constitution to clarify that corporations are not “persons” with basic rights such as Free Speech. The jubilation rippled across the nation, but an unusual holiday chorus in New Hampshire offers a different perspective on corporations in this YouTube video.