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Council of State members offer mixed reaction to limits on employment

A recommendation that the state might impose ethics-related restrictions on secondary employment and corporate board memberships on the state treasurer — and possibly other Council of State officers — drew a mixed response from those officials. At a July 28 meeting of the Investment Advisory Committee, Blake Thomas, interim general counsel for the Department of...

Dan Way
Opinion

Outside influence in government

The following editorial was published in the August 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal: Several members of the Investment Advisory Committee, a state commission that advises the treasurer about financial strategies for the state’s substantial investment portfolio, were surprised to learn at a recent meeting that, unlike many elected and appointed officials in the federal...

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New State Bar Building Underwritten (In Part) By Lawyers

RALEIGH — The State Bar created the North Carolina State Bar Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable corporation with its own board and director. Its original goal was “to raise $2.5 million [for a building fund], and I understand they now have contributions and pledges in excess of that number,” said Thomas Lunsford, State Bar executive director.

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