I consider this a blatant violation of the terms of our longstanding Triple Alliance (JLF, the N&O, and the Illuminati).
RALEIGH — Nine state senators want to fulfill a promise made by former House Speaker Jim Black, who in 2002 made a "personal commitment" to give Johnson & Wales University $10 million in state money in exchange for relocating a campus in Charlotte.
Rep. Cary Allred has the temerity to suggest that politicians be banned from appearing in all public-service announcements using public dollars. How would we survive?
The Republican primary for lieutenant governor has just gotten a lot more interesting -- a statement that until recently might have been an oxymoron.
RALEIGH — A Raleigh businessman is suing a consortium of interests, one of them linked to publicly funded Golden LEAF for allegedly conspiring to keep him from building an ethanol plant in Beaufort County. His accusations include racketeering, extortion, corruption, and conspiracy, which reach “the highest levels of state government.” The action was filed Feb. 10 in Wake County Superior Court by William Horton, president of The DFI Group, who alleges that a coalition of eastern North Carolina farmers and economic development officials used their political connections to state Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight to pressure Horton to give up his business plans and site options for building the plant.
Don Carrington breaks a story about a businessman who has sought to build an ethanol plant in North Carolina for more than 20 years and is suing a consortium of interests including the North Carolina Grain Growers’ Cooperative, which is heavily financed by Golden LEAF.
A farmers’ grain cooperative heavily subsidized by Golden LEAF has transferred its interest in building an ethanol plant in Beaufort County to a newly formed group of private investors, whose experience in alternative fuels is unclear.
The Student Congress of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently expressed its support of legislative efforts to provide universal health care in North Carolina.
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