Tag: gerry-cohen

  • Making North Carolina Legislative Sausage

    Two posts in two days highlighting Gerry Cohen’s Drafting Musings? Hey, quality posts deserve link love! Following on the heels of his historical survey of buffalo noses and other NC legislative curiosities is this post on how bills actually wend their way through the legislative process. Most civics classes focus on how a bill becomes […]

  • North Carolina’s Third Legislative House

    Gerry Cohen, Director of Bill Drafting for the North Carolina General Assembly since 1981 and former Chapel Hill Council member, maintains a fantastic ‘blog Drafting Musings. While he usually covers the vagaries of NC’s legislative sausage-making, luckily for his readers he also veers into interesting back-stories of local and state events. Today he posts the […]