January 29, 2012
So Gov. Bev Perdue spoke to reporters last night for the first time since announcing she wouldn’t run for a second term. The press room at the Sanford-Hunt-Frye dinner was packed with no fewer than seven television cameras, a handful of print report...
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Gov. Bev Perdue spoke with reporters Saturday for the first time since announcing that she wouldn't run for re-election earlier this week.
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January 24, 2012
Note: Video of Berger's news conference is appended to the end of this post.-=-=-=-=-=-Sen. Phil Berger, the Republican president pro tempore of the state Senate, has challenged Gov. Bev Perdue to a debate over sales taxes.
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I had a chance to catch up with Sen. Phil Berger, the president pro tempore of the Senate, today about Gov. Bev Perdue's push for a three-quarters cent increase in the sales tax to pay for education programs.
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January 23, 2012
Gov. Bev Perdue’s communication staff is circulating a memo taking aim at Republican legislators’ dismissal of her sales-tax-for-education proposal.
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January 18, 2012
Gov. Bev Perdue spoke with reporters from papers across the state today about her proposal to increase the state sales tax by three-quarters of a penny."It's a fraction of a penny for progress," Perdue said, recapping much of what she talked abo...
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Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm, says Gov. Bev Perude, a Democrat, is in trouble. From a release this afternoon:
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Gov. Bev Perdue said today she would propose a temporary 0.75-cent sales tax increase as part of her budget for 2012. The AP reports:
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January 11, 2012
Is NC heading for another special session? Perhaps.The folks over at NC Policy Watch pointed out yesterday that jobless benefits for 25,000 long-term unemployed North Carolinians will stop at the end of the month.
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January 10, 2012
Pat McCrory will officially kick off his campaign for governor Jan. 31 in Greensboro, according to Jim Morrill, a reporter for the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh N+O. From Morrill's campaign tracker blog:
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Gov. Bev Perdue is scheduled to be on hand when Teamsters Local 391 swears in a new president at the Colfax union hall Saturday morning. (Colfax is just to the north of Greensboro, next to the PTI airport, for those unfamiliar with Triad geography.)
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January 8, 2012
From the lede of my story in today's paper:RALEIGH — There was already drama Wednesday night when Rep. Bill Faison of Orange County threw a parliamentary curve ball at the House Rules Committee.
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January 6, 2012
The N.C. Democratic Party will hold its annual Sanford Hunt Frye Dinner at the Greensboro Marriott on North Greene Street this year on Jan. 28.The event is one of the most prominent functions the party holds every year and functions both as fundraiser and...
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January 4, 2012
The House vote on whether to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the Racial Justice Act repeal is apparently close. So close, in fact, the appointment of a single member could turn the tide.
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January 3, 2012
In a post earlier today (link), I laid out why I didn’t think the General Assembly was likely to return for anything other than dealing with the Racial Justice Act veto this week.
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