RALEIGH Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue plans to introduce her plans for revamping state government this week, getting a jump on the Republican legislature that will take office in January.
After talking for several months about remaking state government to deal with the projected $3.5 billion shortfall, Perdue will announce her plans before a regional Chamber of […]
Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter flew into orbit nearly 50 years ago. Now, he could be grounded in his native Boulder, Colo.
Scott Carpenter Park could be renamed if a company or wealthy donor makes a good offer, as Boulder prepares to follow other municipalities that are selling naming rights to bridge budget gaps.
Sports complexes, hospitals and […]
Since the midterm elections, local chatter has shifted from state and national elections to next year’s local races. Dispelling, at least for now, rumors that he won’t seek an unprecedented sixth term as mayor, Meeker said he’ll decide in April or May whether he’ll try to continue to lead the Capital City.
Meeker and Avery Upchurch, […]
(Washington, D.C. — ) The president’s deficit commission is taking aim at the Highway Trust Fund in its quest to take a hatchet to federal spending and debt.
The report from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform–out just this morning on Capitol Hill–calls for $3.8 trillion in deficit reduction by 2020. It’s a downright […]
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he’s willing to let voters decide whether to raise taxes to help pay for badly needed improvements to the state highway system.
Beebe said he cannot support many of the proposals of a special panel that is recommending measures from fuel tax increases to tapping the state’s general […]
Former state Rep. Bill Daughtridge of Rocky Mount has been named interim chief of staff during the transition period for the House Republicans by incoming Speaker Thom Tillis. Daughtridge, a three-term lawmaker, and was the Republican nominee for state treasurer in 2008 losing to Democrat Janet Cowell.“Bill has already hit the ground running by participating […]
State Sen. Tom Apodaca, who will head the Senate’s powerful Rules Committee when the General Assembly reconvenes in late January, said Republicans likely will consider controversial budget-slashing solutions such as mergers of county and city school systems and cuts in education system administrative positions.
That could have a direct impact on Buncombe and Asheville, which have […]
The legislature’s new leaders prepare for tough work to bridge the budget shortfall.
RALEIGH Republican lawmakers are busy preparing for their historic transfer of power, taking a series of steps aimed at both confronting a projected $3.5 billion budget shortfall as well as mastering the mechanics of running a branch of government that has been in […]
During a tour and discussion Monday afternoon at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Marine Sciences building, Gov. Bev Perdue stressed that although the university system is still key to the state’s economic growth, the private sector is going to have to fill some of the budget shortfalls.
“We have to have the private sector come […]
