By The Associated Press
Published: April 17,2011
RALEIGH — Forced by Republican legislators to choose between halting unemployment benefits for about 37,000 people and accepting a double-digit budget cut, Gov. Beverly Perdue has vetoed legislation that would have kept checks flowing. Perdue’s announcement came at the end of a chaotic Saturday, following the deaths of at least 16 people in a rash [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: April 7,2011
RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue and Republicans traded verbal jabs today over who’s getting the state economy back on track, a sign of their increasingly frayed relations heading into rough-and-tumble budget negotiations and the 2012 campaign. Perdue and Senate leader Phil Berger held dueling news conferences to defend how each of them was working [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: April 7,2011
RALEIGH — The governors of North Carolina’s public university system learned today that a possible 15 percent cut in state funding would eliminate thousands of classes across the 16 college campuses and mean job losses for more than a thousand faculty members. Although state lawmakers have yet to release their budget proposals for the next [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: April 5,2011
RALEIGH — The General Assembly has agreed Joseph Smith Jr. should become North Carolina’s banking commissioner again after his nomination for a federal financial post fell short. The House completed the Legislature’s confirmation of Smith to the commissioner’s job Monday night. Both chambers agreed unanimously with Gov. Beverly Perdue’s choice of Smith to remain commissioner [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: March 31,2011
RALEIGH — There have been nearly 500 exceptions to the hiring freeze North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue announced late last year to deal with state budget problems. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported today that only a handful of requests for exceptions have been turned down by the Office of Budget Management. Perdue said [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: March 9,2011
RALEIGH — House Republicans today failed to override Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue’s veto of a bill that would challenge the coming federal requirement that people buy health insurance, as Democrats sent a message of their own to the Legislature’s new GOP majority. Republicans fell four votes shy of the three-fifths majority need to send the [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: March 9,2011
RALEIGH — Republican legislators say Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue is threatening the prompt return of income tax refunds to North Carolina residents by borrowing money in a way that violates the state constitution. Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis said today that Perdue’s plan to take $491 million from pots of money [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: February 10,2011
RALEIGH — The Republican-led Legislature has set up a veto showdown with Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue over a budget-savings plan. The House gave final approval to a measure today that directs Perdue to find at least $400 million in savings by the end of June from a $19 billion spending plan. The Senate already had [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 1,2011
Charlotte will be the host city for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic National Committee said today, ending months of speculation in the Queen City. The city beat out St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland for the 46th DMC, an event expected to bring at least a $150 million boost to Charlotte’s economy. “I think we can safely [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 13,2011
Paris-based Capgemini will open a $4.2 million office in Charlotte, creating 550 new jobs over the next three years, Gov. Beverly Perdue said today in an announcement at the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce in uptown. Capgemini provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services. It has more than 100,000 employees in 36 countries. The Charlotte facility will serve [...]
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