Leaders’ shared goal: Creating jobs
Economic uncertainty. Tight credit
Lawmakers cut out-of-state travel expenses
RALEIGH, N.C.
Study: Millions saved with no death penalty
RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina could save $11 million the year if it stopped perplexing to govern killers, according to the investigate by the Duke University professor.
S.C. may get laws to govern its governor
COLUMBIA In a months given South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford certified an extramarital affair, he’s been strike with calls for his abdication as well as an ethics review which could price him thousands.
Man wanted in NC murder found in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
Ex-Easley aide declines to testify at hearing
A tip help to former Gov. Mike Easley who helped accumulate debate donations from politically continuous businessmen declined Thursday to attest prior to a State Board of Elections, citing his Fifth Amendment right to not inculpate himself. Shortly after, a aide’s employer, a McGuireWoods law firm, pronounced he was no longer with a firm.
Lifers’ liberty up to N.C. Supreme Court
RALEIGH It’s an additional insane lurch to the courts to disagree over the probable recover of dual inmates convicted of attempted murder in the 1970s. The Court of Appeals refused to import in upon the box Thursday, as well as right away usually the state Supreme Court can hindrance an sequence by the Superior Court decider to set them free
County to offer same-sex benefits to employees
Mecklenburg County will suggest done at home partner benefits in 2011 to employees in same-sex relationships, underneath the devise authorized Tuesday night by county commissioners. The house opinion separate 6-3 along celebration lines to proceed charity the benefits during the subsequent open the number enrolled period, which would begin subsequent fall. The assembly was noted by an acrimonius sell in between commissioners Vilma Leake as well as Bill James, over the acknowledgement which James appeared to have done about Leake’s son
Support up for public campaign financing
When a N.C. Voters for Clean Elections began a decade ago, usually a couple of reformers championed a thought of publicly financing state domestic campaigns. Since then, North Carolina has adopted open financing for a campaigns of appellate justice judges, 3 Council of State offices as well as internal officials in a single town.
Sen. Rand says he knows little about security firm – for now
RALEIGH As he strode by a North Raleigh domicile of Law Enforcement Associates upon Thursday, Tony Rand didn’t action most similar to a authority of a publicly traded company. Rather than perplexing to stir visitors with how hands-on as well as associating he is about a confidence device manufacturer’s operations, Rand, who as infancy personality of a N.C.