By The Associated Press
Published: June 15,2011
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s General Assembly completed its override of Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue’s historic budget veto today, and a state spending plan that cuts sales taxes — and, the governor argues, could lead to thousands of lost education jobs — became law. The Republican-led Senate agreed to overturn the veto on a party-line vote [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 3,2011
Gov. Beverly Perdue said today that she has signed an executive order to allow federal unemployment insurance benefits to be restored to some 47,000 North Carolinians. The benefits went away when Perdue in April vetoed legislation that would have kept the checks flowing. But Perdue, a Democrat, did not like the double-digit budget cut that [...]
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 4,2011
RALEIGH – After years of tuition increases at colleges and cuts in state funding, now is the time to talk about whether North Carolina’s philosophy toward higher education has changed, the president of the University of North Carolina system said. North Carolina’s constitution demands the state provide affordable higher education. The News & Observer of [...]
By The Associated Press
Published: March 23,2011
RALEIGH — The latest effort to limit distracted drivers mashing down cell phone buttons or checking smartphone screens may split the top leaders in the North Carolina Legislature. A House judiciary committee scheduled debate today on a measure that would make using a cell phone while driving illegal in North Carolina unless the motorist used [...]
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 [...]
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