By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: November 8,2011
Thom Tillis, Republican speaker of the House for the North Carolina General Assembly, will be the keynote speaker at the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors’ annual meeting and awards luncheon Dec. 5. The event will be at Myers Park Country Club. Tillis, who is listed as a management consultant and Cornelius resident on the [...]
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 — 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 [...]
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