A new audit revealed that the eastern North Carolina town of Belhaven failed to cut off utilities for 629 past-due accounts, leaving $429,888 in unpaid bills as of June 2015. Town officials say they inherited the problems from previous administrators, a contention challenged in the audit. Belhaven Town Manager Woody Jarvis acknowledges that the town has had...
RALEIGH — The report by State Auditor Beth Wood says Where Dreams Come True, which at one time operated three day care facilities in Transylvania and Henderson counties, received $68,239 from a subsidized child care program for new enrollments after the front company was set up. The original owner, who was cited for 85 violations over a four-year period, would not have been entitled to the subsidies.
RALEIGH — Boston University associate professor of anthropology Peter Wood delivered the keynote address at the Pope Center for Higher Education Reform’s 2003 conference and received its annual Caldwell Prize for Academic Leadership. Wood is the author of Diversity: Invention of a Concept and a frequent National Review columnist. Wood described a transformation of higher education into a system that prolongs adolescence into “children’s” third decade. “Economically speaking, Americans want low academic standards,” Wood said. “It’s what we purchase.”
