RALEIGH — The Safe Students Act originally included a provision requiring parents or guardians of incoming K-12 students to provide the children's immigration status. It was removed from the final version of the law.
RALEIGH — Allied promises to create about 40 jobs in Lee County, where unemployment was 12.1 percent in February. But the move potentially could shutter Sanford Steel & Pipe Corp., which never has accepted government funding in its 60 years of business.
RALEIGH — WakeMed officials claim the state-owned UNC Health Care has used taxpayer money to expand its network of providers, particularly in profitable areas such as cardiac care, leaving the private, non-profit WakeMed to shoulder 80 percent of costs for treating uninsured patients in Wake County.
RALEIGH — FOX News and CNN reported Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice would be sending more than 400 elections monitors from its Civil Rights Division to 30 jurisdictions, including North Carolina. A USDOJ spokesman said North Carolina was not on the department’s radar this year, however.
U.S. Sen. Josiah Bailey of North Carolina (1930-1936) considered FDR's New Deal program harmful to the nation.
