State Government | 2012 Archive

RALEIGH — House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, announced the launch of the task force Tuesday at a press conference. The goal, he said, is to find out how many people are cheating the system and ways to end the fraud.

RALEIGH — Attorneys Juleigh Sitton, Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs, and former Perdue campaign finance director Peter Reichard, a Greensboro businessman, were indicted on felony charges by a Wake County grand jury Nov. 28.

RALEIGH — The letter asks legislative leaders to support full sunshine principles by providing clear and precise calendars for House and Senate legislative sessions and committee meetings at least five business days in advance, along with a list of the issues that will be addressed.

Basing economic development policies on the decisions of one company is unwise. And these decisions are made for many reasons.

RALEIGH — The mother of the 4-year-old who first objected to the inspection of her child's lunch by West Hoke Elementary School says the school continues to give her daughter milk every day, against her wishes.

RALEIGH — The institute made its first big headlines in a 2005 landmark case taking on tax credits and other economic development incentives for Dell to build a manufacturing plant in Forsyth County.

WASHINGTON — The national uproar over a Hoke County 4-year-old’s recent encounter with government-paid preschool lunch monitors has prompted two members of the N.C. congressional delegation to fire off a letter expressing “strong concern” to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Gov. Beverly Perdue's recent executive order would help her evade her constitutional duty.

RALEIGH — In recent months, the question of fraud in the federal government’s second largest nutrition entitlement has reached critical mass in Illinois and Georgia, where school officials are trying to weed out cheaters.

Manipulation of federal employment data leads to misstatements about job gains and losses.

The nine Council of State members have extensive responsibilities and control a lot of taxpayer money.

RALEIGH — International comparisons show North Carolina public school students struggle to match the performance of economic competitors around the globe, despite spending levels that rank among the highest in the world. The John Locke Foundation's top education expert reaches that conclusion in a new Spotlight report.