This cross, with its purple Easter sash, sits in small open space next to Caraleigh Baptist Church in Raleigh. If you look, you can see it from S. Saunders Street, in the middle of what seems to be the path Saturday’s tornado took after crossing the highway. Travis Fain That is a roughly 3-foot-diameter tree […]
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In prison crowding review, keep eyes on the budget
As Gov. Bev Perdue contemplates how to respond this weekend to the House and Senate GOP’s tricky moveof tying 37,000 people’s unemployment benefits to cuts in next year’s budget, let us turn our attention to a mounting long-term problem for the state. North Carolina’s prison population has increased 29 percent since 2000, despite a drop […]
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House: Let Wake school board chair vote
The N.C. House voted Monday to let Wake County’s School Board chairman vote on all board issues, not just to break a tie. Currently the board’s “presiding officer,” which is generally Chairman Ron Margiotta, but falls to Vice Chair Debra Goldman when Margiotta is absent, votes only to break ties on the nine-member board. House […]
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Monday on Jones Street: Charter Schools in, red light cameras out, big budget news this week
The N.C. passed a controversial — and campaign promised —charter schools bill Monday evening and said that, if you run from the cops, you should lose your car. The Senate voted to outlaw red-light cameras at the start of what will likely be a very busy week at the statehouse.
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Negligence, cap on damages, focus of malpractice reform bill
Of the people who’ve contacted state legislators to oppose overhauling North Carolina’s medical malpractice laws, John Faulkner is unique. He’s a doctor. A 2002 operating room explosion badly burned his wife on her face, neck and chest when a surgeon’s cauterizing tool got too close to an oxygen stream, as Faulkner told lawmakers in a […]
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In budget fight, N.C. House allies with teachers
The NCAE’s Daily Political Briefing, which publishes for members of the North Carolina Association of Educators, tweeted this about an hour ago: Great meeting with Speaker Tillis & Rep Holloway – thoughtful & honest conversation. Met w NCAE Char/Meck for nearly 2 hours. #ncaera11
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Republican voter I.D. bill heads to House next week
Legislation that would require North Carolina voters to show photo I.D. at the polls will likely get a committee vote and move to the House floor next week, House Elections Committee Chairman David Lewis said Tuesday. A vote had been expected Tuesday evening, immediately following a lengthy hearing on House Bill 351, the voter I.D. […]
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Read their lips: Some new taxes
With Republicans taking over the N.C. General Assembly, you probably figured you could rest easy on taxes. I mean, sure, they might lay off a few thousand teachers, but at least your taxes won’t go up. Because they promised that, right? It was item No. 1 in the GOP’s pre-election 100-day plan.
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Cue head explosion: More on the broadband bill
House Bill 129 is enormously complicated, and is ostensibly about putting limits on the ways cities can build broadband Internet systems, and thus compete with private companies such as Time Warner Cable. As noted earlier this week, the bill forbids cities from using tax dollars to build the system under most plausible scenarios, and would […]
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Bill: Let armed elected officials roam Capitol
A new gun bill at the statehouse would let elected officials carry concealed weapons onto the House and Senate floors and most other places in North Carolina, giving elected officials gun rights other state residents don’t have. House Bill 184 would allow state, federal and local elected officials with a concealed carry permit to take […]
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