RALEIGH — The budget and redistricting will dominate discussion and debate this week at the General Assembly. Tort reform, property rights, a tax credit for private education, and offshore drilling also are on the agenda.
RALEIGH — The brainchild of former Gov. Jim Hunt, NCCAT offers dozens of five-day seminars throughout the year, most focusing on cultural, historical, and artistic topics, including global warming, holistic health, and pottery. Each year, the retreat serves 5,000 public school teachers lucky enough to attend.
Conservatives are cat people. They are picky. They are fastidious. And they are impossible to herd.
CULLOWHEE — Most people visit Jackson County for the mountain vistas, camping, and trout fishing. Public school teachers come here for the training. The remote county might seem an unlikely site for North Carolina’s only professional development center devoted exclusively to reviving a love of learning in state educators.
Successful Democrats in the mountains – outside of Asheville, anyway – typically take social and cultural issues off the table by expressing views indistinguishable from those of their Republican adversaries.
Many residents of growing communities will say they like the notion of high-density development in theory – as long as someone else is going to live there, and it won’t be next door.
FAYETTEVILLE — Cumberland County officials and community leaders are challenging the state’s adults to do a better job instilling teenagers with the knowledge and skills necessary to become effective participants in politics and civic activities. The recommendations were made in response to a recent statewide survey showing an acute lack of understanding of government among North Carolina’s youth. Nine out of 10 teens were unable to name both of North Carolina’s U.S. senators. Forty-four percent didn’t know the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the Bill of Rights.
As thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen deploy from North Carolina bases to the Gulf region in preparation for war, other North Carolinians are mobilizing to protest it. How will most residents react to a Bush administration military action?
Activists met this weekend at Western Carolina University to develop a “women’s agenda” for the 2003 legislative session that includes demands for more tax money. What’s worse, the meeting was sponsored by an arm of the university.
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