Gov. Bev Perdue's worst moment this year didn't happen because of scandals swirling around her predecessor or accusations that she flip-flopped on taxes.
The worst moment came at a Christmas reception for military families at the Executive Mansion, Rob Christensen reports.
At the reception, Perdue greeted [...]
BID DEBATE: A no-bid contract with a company to provide diabetes supplies for people on Medicaid was meant to cut costs. But critics say the company, Charlotte-based Prodigy Diabetes Care, is exactly the reason more transparency is needed. The company's owners have a checkered history. (N&O)
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I see that the UPoR attempted to answer the question last week’s Charlotte Business Journal dispatch on Anthony Foxx’s new day job left hanging: Will Mayor Foxx lobby other big city Democratic mayors to buy buses from DesignLine?
Foxx says no. Further, Foxx, and evidently City Attorney Mac MCarley [...]
Gov. Bev Perdue says Tony Rand, her choice to lead the state's parole commission, is a 'man of integrity,' despite allegations swirling around him.
Rand has been accused by two men of insider trading through his role as the chairman of the board of Law Enforcement Associates, a company [...]
The state lottery commission is switching ad agencies.
The commission, sensing that the economic climate might make for a little healthy competition, decided to see if it could get a better deal than it was getting from Charlotte-based Wray Ward, which was receiving a fee of 10 percent for every [...]
[...] Is it true that our legislature is becoming more liberal/progressive? This article on the Progressive States Network website might help you with your answer.
The article praises our state legislature for passing a bill that will allow 16 and 17 year olds to register to vote.
The article states that “this [...]
That's Congresswoman Virginia Foxx bestowing a doctor-of-the-year award on famed Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon, Renato Calabria (from 2005). This picture has been curiously missing 'til now from the public record. About Dr. Calabria, from "Palm Springs Life":Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram launched a massive drug raid Wednesday — and called it “Operation Seasons Greetings.”
What’s next, an anti-graffiti campaign called “Operation Deck the Halls”? A speed trap called “Operation Home for the Holidays”? A anti-werewolf campaign called “Operation It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”?
Ho-ho-ho.
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ANYTHING WILL DO: Gov. Bev Perdue had to amend her campaign finance reports because of more undisclosed flights, a fact Republicans compared to the transgressions of embattled former Gov. Mike Easley. Later in the week, Perdue had a spokeswoman explain that Perdue stayed completely [...]
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, where no man had boldly gone before, in a land where the sun never set and the climate never changed, lived a lovely young princess called Airwick.
Wherever she went, gaily tripping around the land, singing her sweet songs, and dancing [...]
Ruffin Poole, a key aide to former Gov. Mike Easley, asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer any questions of the State Board of Elections on Thursday.
Poole has become a central figure in the investigation against Easley. His lawyer, Joseph Zeszotarski Jr., at [...]
As part of the expansion of the state children’s health insurance program last year, the federal government made available millions of dollars to states to enroll more children. In addition, the federal government added a sweetener. For states that did a really good job enrolling more kids, not only would [...]
This time to Raleigh and to Washington Dulles. The single-daily flights end of February 10, the day before the US Airways/Delta slot swap was to happen. You know, the slot swap that was announced four months ago that the DOT hasn’t gotten around to approving yet.
Other US Airways routes from [...]
BY SPECIAL INVITATION: Federal investigators want more answers about coastal real estate developments assembled by two brothers with ties to former Gov. Mike Easley and whether anyone made payoffs or gifts to state regulators. Three Department of Environment and Natural Resources employees have been subpoenaed to appear [...]
In the wake of recent revelations, the Wilmington daily has called for R.C. Soles not just to to bow out of the 2010 race for his Pender-Columbus-Brunswick senate seat, but to resign from it:
Soles’ reputation – always a little suspect since his first indictment in the Colcor investigation of [...]
