RALEIGH — The survey of voters in 10 states, including North Carolina, shows a plurality concluding that salaries and benefits for government workers are too high for the duties they perform, while half of voters oppose collective bargaining for public employees.
RALEIGH — In a year that political experts predict will bring electoral misery to incumbents in Washington, anything can happen. State and national Republicans, buoyed by positive polling numbers, are targeting Tar Heel congressional races once considered safely in the Democrats’ camp.
RALEIGH — More members of the state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives have scheduled (and announced) town hall meetings this summer than last. But this year, fewer have responded to queries from Carolina Journal about their plans for the August recess.
RALEIGH — The 13 members of North Carolina’s U.S. House delegation spent $4.3 million in taxpayer funds to run their offices during the third quarter of 2009, including costs for leased hybrid cars, snacks, and bottled water, congressional receipts and expenditures for the third quarter show.
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s congressional delegation served up $228 million in pork barrel spending for fiscal 2009, a 5 percent jump from the previous year, according to the latest report from the government watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste.
RALEIGH — The number of congressional pork barrel projects may have reached a seven-year low last year, but that didn’t mean frugal spending habits were here to stay, according to the latest report from the government watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the dubious honor of being rated on www.PartySchool.com - a web site that rates schools' party scenes, gives advice on planning parties (including a list of drinking games "to get the party started"), and provides the "world's only patented, scientifically proven cure" for combatting hangovers. PartySchool.com awarded UNC-CH with 4 out of 5 stars for its "wild" party scene.
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