The Greensboro News-Record provides this overview of the legislative session, informing readers that 205 bills were passed during the short 2012 legislative session. If you’ve been walking around North Carolina for the last few months thinking the state had enough laws, the General Assembly has some mildly interesting news for you: State legislators passed 205 [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Are School Boards “Accountable”?
Earlier today Bob wrote about the NC School Board Association’s jamboree of scare words. For-profit! Unelected! Out of state! Corporations! Surely we don’t want that kind of folk educating our children? The gist of their complaint seems to boil down to accountability. Charter school leadership is exempt from this and that requirement, and doesn’t answer [...]
NCSBA Slams Charter Schools
NC’s Charter School Law: Creating Two Public Education Systems.; that’s the title of a new publication from the North Carolina School Boards Association (NCSBA). For those that didn’t already know, the title tells you all you need to know about NCSBA’s stance toward charters. NCSBA says the publication compares “laws and facts regarding local school [...]
Ousted Duke Energy CEO Refutes Successor’s Claims
(RALEIGH) – The man ousted as CEO of Duke Energy right after a merger with Progress Energy got a chance to answer the charges of the man who took his place in a surprise move that prompted a Utilities Commission probe. Click on the video report…
Local Hot Dog business speaks out against the President
If you frequent the Raleigh favorite, Snoopy’s Hot Dogs, you might have seen a sign that read, “Mr. Obama, I did create this business -Steve Webb.” Recent comments made by the President have angered many local business owners, such as Steve Webb, owner of Snoopy’s Hot Dogs & More. Mr. Webb said in a telephone [...]
