Budget Funds E-NC Authority

RALEIGH — Taxpayer groups groused over the extension of “temporary” sales and income taxes — which originally were to expire in 2003 — in this year’s state budget, but little noise was made about new money for a state-funded nonprofit that was to disappear also. The E-NC Authority, formerly the Rural Internet Access Authority, received another $1 million in operating funds for the next two fiscal years, which runs until June 30, 2007.