At a Legislative Oversight Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon, legislators grilled a senior state employee over a variety of issues pertaining to early childcare. The unlucky bureaucrat, Dr. Deb Cassidy, Director of the Division of Child Development and Early Education (a division of the Department of Health and Human Services), took a variety of pointed childcare [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Were ECSU Students Pressured to Vote by University Staff?
This story has been all but dismissed by the mainstream press. Every article I have read contains a couple of paragraphs saying that the Pasquotank Board of Elections met to hear a complaint about Elizabeth City State University students being pressured to vote. The articles included a link to the Daily Advance article, but The [...]
Board of Education Early Voting in Wake County
In 2009, a total of 55,121 people voted in the Raleigh, Cary and Board of Education election – 2,352 of the votes were cast early, either at a one-stop site or by mail. According to the most recent Wake County Board of Elections data, the number of early voters has tripled in this year’s Raleigh, Cary andBoard [...]
Gov. Perdue Releases Her Statement on Defense of Marriage Amendment
Governor Bev Perdue has finally come out with her statement of why she objects to a constitutional amendment to defend marriage as between one man and one woman. The General Assembly approved the amendment during the latest special session with bipartisan support. Supporters noted Senator Perdue voted for a bill in 1996 that put the [...]
Certificate of Need Committee Meets
The House Select Committee on Certificate of Need Process and Related Hospital Issues meet today to continue hearings on the Certificate of Need (CON). Presenting to the Committee were Jeff Horton of the NC Division of Health Service Regulation, Hugh Tilson of the North Carolina Hospital Association, and Noah H. Huffstetler, III, an attorney at [...]
