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In September, the State Board of Community Colleges agreed to allow undocumented students into NC Community Colleges with certain conditions after nearly two years of intense debate. However, this will not take effect until this policy proposal goes through a “Permanent [...]
In his column “A vital helping hand,” Chris Fitzsimon sites a new report by The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which found 39 million Americans have benefited from the government’s economic recovery act. More government help is needed in the form of jobs creation to keep struggling families [...]
A new report from the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities found that the Economic Recovery Act (ARRA) has served as an economic tourniquet of sorts in keeping at least 200,000 North Carolinians from living in poverty this year.
Provisions like increased food stamp benefits, the Making Work Pay Tax [...]
President Barack Obama has the approval of 48 percent of North Carolinians compared to 47 percent who disapprove of his job performance, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling.
PPP surveyed 593 North Carolina voters from Dec. 11-13.
On the issue of Obama's job approval, 5 [...]
Democratic Senate candidate Elaine Marshall attended a White House Christmas Party Tuesday night.
Marshall, who is secretary of state, was one hundreds of state officials from across the country invited, Rob Christensen reports. Other Democratic North Carolinians attending included state Rep. Verla Insko of Chapel [...]
FamiliesUSA issued a new report today detailing the effect of the Senate health bill on increasing coverage in North Carolina. Nearly one million North Carolinians would gain coverage under the bill. If we don’t do anything? 254,000 of us lose coverage by 2019.
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[...] Coastal North Carolinians are, like most of their fellow Americans, growing increasingly unlikely to heed the calls for action from climate-change alarmists. They suspect that the prospects of jacking up energy prices and jacking down job creation are not welcome ones. They’re right.
But there are other things they need to [...]
North Carolina’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity has signed up more than 300 residents for a “Code Red” rally in Washington on health reform.
The group, which opposes the Democrats’ reform bills, plan to rally on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Barb Barrett reports. The national protest by conservatives is [...]
Over at BlueNC a couple of filmmakers, Rick Fitts and John Autry, posted a video they made discussing health reform with average North Carolinians.
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Share and Enjoy: [...]Six North Carolinians died on the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941, according to the Pearl Harbor casualty database:
William Teasdale Durham
Malcolm Hedrick Leigh
Albert Wesley Pinkham
Mark Alexander Rhodes
Kermit Braxton Stallings
Lloyd Harold Tussey
The database allows you to search the names of casualties at every other [...]
North Carolinians want the Republican federal prosecutor investigating Democrats Mike Easley and John Edwards to stay on the job, according to a new poll.
The survey by the Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank, found that 76 percent of those polled want George Holding, the U.S. [...]
Governor Bev Perdue is making a trip to Washington, DC today to petition for more federal funds for North Carolina. Instead of working to find better ways to cut spending, target waste and inefficiency in government, and provide tax relief for North Carolinians struggling in the recession – our Governor [...]
Chris Fitzsimon’s commentary “Monday Numbers” is a look at hunger and food insecurity. It provides a stark reminder for us during this celebration-of-plenty holiday that too many North Carolinians have far too little in way of basic necessities.
Dr. Stephen Jackson with the NC Justice Center has released a new [...]
Generally speaking, folks don't like taxes.
But North Carolinians seem divided on the question of tax fairness, according to a new poll by Elon University.
Almost half (48 percent) of North Carolina residents polled Nov. 16-19 say the current state tax system is either "not at all fair" or "not too [...]
NC Policy Watch released the following media advisory this afternoon:
MEDIA ADVISORY: New statewide poll shows that North Carolinians favor tax hikes over education cuts.
An overwhelming majority of state’s voters favor candidates who would protect education funding.
RALEIGH (November 13, 2009) – North Carolina voters strongly favor state legislative [...]
