November 7, 2009
RALEIGH — Students in Guilford and Forsyth counties would begin studying for careers in the aviation industry as early as middle school under a program developed by GTCC and funded by a Golden LEAF grant of $1.45 million.
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November 6, 2009
RALEIGH — Rep. Pricey Harrison has asked the state’s attorney general and Department of Insurance to investigate Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s use of campaign-style tactics aimed at defeating controversial federal health in...
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November 4, 2009
Sen. Kay Hagan announced on her conference call this morning that President Barack Obama has nominated two North Carolina judges to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals: Judge James “Jim” Wynn, who currently sits on the N.C. Court of Appea...
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November 3, 2009
RALEIGH — Tar Heels seem to agree on this much: The nation’s health insurance system is not what it should be. Nearly 77 percent of those surveyed in a recent Elon University Poll say health care in the United States is “in need of refor...
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November 1, 2009
RALEIGH — The spectacle of a former governor being called before an elections tribunal to answer for transgressions committed by his campaign was historic in many ways. If nothing else, Mike Easley was the first former chief executive subpoenaed in...
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October 30, 2009
RALEIGH — The State Board of Elections handed out punishment to three different parties in connection with former Gov. Mike Easley’s campaign finances Friday.
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Note: Follow today's testimony live at this Capital Beat blog post ANALYSIS RALEIGH — There will be many questions left unanswered even after the State Board of Elections rules on its investigation of former Gov. Mike Easley today .
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October 29, 2009
Note: Follow Wednesday's hearings live online at this Capital Beat blog post. You can also see video at the News & Observer.
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October 28, 2009
Note: Follow Wednesday's hearings live online at this Capital Beat blog post ANALYSIS RALEIGH — Good government campaigners have long labeled high-dollar campaign donations as corrosive to the political process. Maybe they ought to blame such donati...
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October 27, 2009
Note: For updates on Tuesday, visit Easley hearings, day 2 ANALYSIS
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October 25, 2009
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley was talking ethics back in March 2006. He had shoehorned reporters into his Capitol office to announce that he would appoint former judge Robert Farmer to lead the state’s ethics board and would order Farmer to condu...
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Question: I read a while back that lottery officials were going to check on vendors who sell a lot of big winners. Did they? What did they find?
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October 20, 2009
CARY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Energy Secretary Steven Chu came to North Carolina on Friday to push a meeting of business leaders toward investing in renewable energy.
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October 16, 2009
RALEIGH — Federal stimulus dollars are keeping thousands of people employed, information that North Carolina submitted to an oversight agency indicates.
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October 14, 2009
RALEIGH — The future of video poker in North Carolina could hinge on a case heard by a three-judge Court of Appeals panel Wednesday. Lawyers representing the video poker industry told the court that federal law prohibits the General Assembly from re...
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October 13, 2009
RALEIGH — It wasn’t so much a question as a dare. “So, commissioner, have you tried the chocolate-covered bacon?”
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October 11, 2009
RALEIGH — Lawmakers are getting ready to take up a tax reform effort that could change how much, when and who pays for most government services through taxes. While there is broad agreement among legislators that North Carolina’s tax system ne...
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RALEIGH — Shortly after the November 2004 elections, the word went out to lawmakers that they were needed back in Raleigh. North Carolina was competing to land a Dell manufacturer and all shoulders were needed in the wheel of state government.
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October 6, 2009
On first blush, Rep. Howard Coble doesn’t seem like the most likely character to be involved in a dispute over Internet domain names. The 78-year-old Greensboro Republican is more likely to get on the phone with an angry constituent than answer an a...
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October 5, 2009
Who will be the next leader? Will the leadership of the Board of Commissioners stay put for another year? No telling, at this point. In interviews last week, neither Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston nor Vice Chairman Steve Arnold would say whethe...
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October 4, 2009
RALEIGH — Ed Taylor stood with friends and family in front of the Wake County courthouse Tuesday, each wearing a lime-green T-shirt with a simple message: “Free Greg Taylor.”
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October 2, 2009
Roughly $1.5 million worth of federal stimulus funding will be coming to Greensboro as part of 556 National Institutes of Health grants handed out across the state this week. Nationwide, more than 12,000 such grants were given out under one slice of a $78...
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September 29, 2009
About half of the $787 billion federal stimulus — what sticklers for legislative titles call the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act — passed in February has been spent, says Ed DeSeve, a special adviser to the president on recovery act fun...
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September 22, 2009
When the U.S. House debated a measure governing funding on higher education last week, most of the attention focused on how federally subsidized student loans would be parceled out. (For more on that, see the vote tally section.)
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September 20, 2009
RALEIGH — All 10 lawmakers who represent Guilford County at the General Assembly say they either have decided to run again next year or are leaning that way. “I’m strongly considering it,” said Rep. John Blust , a Greensboro Republ...
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