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Successful poll worker recruitment paves the way for election transparency
The three most populated counties in the state – Wake, Mecklenburg, and Guilford – are all on track with poll worker recruitment, officials report.
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Charlotte urges Appeals Court to overturn order favoring suspended firefighter
Charlotte officials are asking the state’s second-highest court to reverse a lower court ruling favoring a suspended firefighter. The case stems from a controversial social media post about Charlotte Fire Department recruiting.
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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes U.S. military recruiting problems
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the military’s current recruiting challenges. King offered these comments during the Aug. 12, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
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Culinary School Gets State Dollars
RALEIGH — Approval of the state budget June 30 also marked the beginning of the fulfillment of a $10 million promise made by NC House Speaker Jim Black to a culinary arts school that planned to establish a campus in Charlotte. The budget appropriates $1 million in 2003-04 and an additional $1 million in 2004-05 from the One North Carolina Fund to Johnson & Wales University. Black wrote in a letter May 23, 2002 to University President Jack Yena: “You have my personal commitment of support for a $10 million investment over the next five years by the State of North Carolina for this project.”
