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Budget Cuts Claim Scholarship Program for Teachers in NC
A scholarship program meant to attract North Carolina's brightest high school students into teaching has fallen victim to state budget cuts.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Sunday that legislators voted to phase out the $13.5 million annual...Tags: Financial Aid, Elections, Budgets and Budgeting, Government Debt, Human Interest
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NC Legislature Keeps Going to Wrap Up Business
Staff WriterNorth Carolina state lawmakers still have a little more work to do before they leave Raleigh on a long break. General Assembly members couldn't finish their to-do list by the wee hours Friday morning as previously planned to wrap up their regular...Tags: Beverly Perdue, Laws, Politics, Local Government, Constitutional Issues
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Perdue Vetoes Budget, Says it Moves NC Backward
Staff WriterDemocratic Gov. Beverly Perdue vetoed the North Carolina budget plan Sunday, saying the Republican-led Legislature's proposal would do "generational damage" to public education and other pillars of the state. Still, she may be unable to stop the plan if...Tags: Democratic Party, Government, Beverly Perdue, Regional Authority, Politics
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Role of Blacks in Confederacy Remains a Touchy Subject
Staff WriterAs America embarks on four years of Civil War commemorations, it revives an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy. It arose last year when a Virginia textbook was...Tags: History, Defense, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy
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House Overrides Budget Veto, Perdue Issues Statement
Associated PressThe North Carolina House voted early Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue's historic veto of the state government budget for the next two years, completing the key step needed for the Republican majority to cancel her objections and...Tags: Government, Democratic Party, Beverly Perdue, Phil Berger, Regional Authority
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Florida State-N.C. State set for noon kickoff
Chopping Block - Seminoles Blog - Orlando SentinelThe ACC announced on Monday that the Florida State-North Carolina State game in two weeks will have a noon kickoff and will be broadcast by ESPNU. FSU hosts Maryland this weekend at Doak Campbell Stadium, before welcoming the Wolfpack to Tallahassee on... -
Seminole’s school integration model wins renewed support
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelSeminole County's public schools got out of a decades old desegregation battle a few years ago in part by subscribing to “socio-economic integration.” Balancing income levels of students among schools achieves the real goal of desegregation,... -
Harlan Ellison’s ‘In Time’ lawsuit — readers think he has a point
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelAlthough he isn't credited as the source author for Andrew Niccol's “In Time,” legendary and legendarily pugnacious and litigious sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison sees eerie similarities between the Justin Timberlake “time as a unit of... -
North Carolina state football record in question
Central Florida Varsity the Blog - Orlando SentinelWill Cooper is at the center of a feverish debate about a North Carolina high school football record. It was initially believed that Cooper, a rising senior at Broughton High School in Raleigh, set a state record by throwing for 600 yards in a game last... -
Lisa Napoli's lessons for book tour
Jacket CopyWords of advice from first-time author Lisa Napoli on how to create a fruitful do-it-yourself book tour.... -
Auditions: ‘A Christmas Story: The Musical’ tour seeks children
Orlando Theater BlogHere's an audition notice for children who would like to participate in a touring production of “A Christmas Story, The Musical!” One of the stops on the tour, which runs Nov. 8-Dec. 30, is in Tampa. The auditions are done online. Here's the... -
Rick Perry's BBQ 'insult': Really, North Carolina?
Opinion L.A.When an entire state fiercely stakes out a side in the cow vs. pig barbecue row in reaction to flippant comments Rick Perry made 19 years ago, it suggests that either today's political culture of umbrage-taking and over the smallest offenses is fed...
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