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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Pat Stith, Lynn Bonner, Ryan Teague Beckwith and Jane Stancill, Staff WritersThe federal government's decision to withhold payment of $175 million for a state mental health program because of concerns that the state had been paying improper claims is a good deal more serious than the governor's senior adviser described it.Dan Gerlach, Gov. Mike Easley's senior policy adviser, called it...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... and then they have to find a parking space. They are fit to be tied when they get in here."If Gov. Mike Easley's budget proposal for 2009 is approved, downtown Raleigh could have a new 55,000-square-foot visitors center by 2011. The governor wants to allocate $40.4 million for the construction of a stand-alone center and a two-level underground parking garage.The new center would...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
A panel appointed by Gov. Mike Easley recommended suggestions, if implemented, that will do nothing to prevent employees from knowingly circumventing the law concerning public records.
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tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in 2008. The lone southeastern state with a governor's race is North Carolina, where Democrat Mike Easley is termed out. The two Crist-Barbour meetings will be hosted by George LeMieux, who was Crist's chief of staff in 2007.
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Hull House NC (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that the training comes less than a month after media groups from across the state sued Gov. Mike Easley for the "systematic deletion, destruction or concealment" of e-mail messages believed to be public records. David Lawrence, a professor at the UNC School of Government, said state employees' e-mails are considered public records if they contain information related to public business...
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Hull House NC (Free subscription) | yesterday
Basnight and Berger Senate leader Marc Basnight said Wednesday that there won't be any tax increases this year. In a brief speech to the North Carolina Chamber Wednesday afternoon, Basnight said that the legislature will focus on boosting education and fixing the mental health care system. "I don't believe you'll see taxes this year whatsoever -- any kind of increase," said Basnight, D-Dare. Gov. Mike...
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Hull House NC (Free subscription) | yesterday
Budget Push House budget subcommittee chairs were given spending targets -- as much as $100 million dollars below amounts included in Gov. Mike Easley's budget -- as legislative budget writers pushed toward a timetable that has the General Assembly approving a spending plan by June 27. Figures released by legislative staff on Wednesday put estimated General Fund revenue at $21.179 billion,...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | yesterday
... me basically what we have is a catch-and-release program because we have no prison deterrent."Gov. Mike Easley has proposed borrowing $63 million without voter approval to add a total of 1,500 beds at four state prisons.The prison system is expected to surpass 40,000 inmates next year. Bennett said the increase is largely linked to general population growth in the state. or (919)...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Video of story here. By: Tim Boyum RALEIGH – Gov. Mike Easley and lawmakers will soon battle over so called sin taxes. Easley wants to increase the tax on cigarettes and alcohol. He says the money is needed to pay for teacher pay increases and mental health reform at a time when sin taxes are becoming increasingly popular proposals to raise money. As a tobacco state, raising the...
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News & Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barry SaundersSay, Governor. I wouldn't mind paying a sin tax if I could just find some sin worth taxing.With police crackdowns in recent years on the dens of iniquity that made the Triangle interesting, sins worth paying for are becoming hard to find.Gov. Mike Easley's plan to finance teacher raises and mental-health reforms on the lungs and livers of smokers and drinkers -- a sin tax...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... last week that it has no authority over admissions at North Carolina colleges and despite Governor Mike Easley's request that the colleges remain open to all students.Ralls said he will continue to seek clarification of federal law regarding the eligibility of illegal immigrants for post-secondary education and that another policy change is possible. Ralls, who became president of...
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Bruisin' Ales Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Will Easley get his beer & wine tax increase? North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley is proposing a huge hike in beer & wine taxes to fun the states ailing mental health system. The North Carolina Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association is not happy. NC already has the fourth-highest beer tax in the country. A new tax would make [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
RALEIGH, N.C., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- An estimated 130,000 North
Carolinians suffer from Fibromyalgia, a chronic widespread pain condition.
Governor Mike Easley and his wife Mary are joining the Triangle
Fibromyalgia Positive Energy support group in raising awareness of
fibromyalgia during National Women's Health Week. "It is important for
medical professionals to be educated on the diagnosis...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 14, 2008 RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley's attorneys asked yesterday that a judge dismiss a lawsuit accusing his administration of violating public-records law through the "systematic deletion, destruction or concealment" of e-mails. In a motion filed in Wake Superior Court, state attorneys for Easley argued that the court has no jurisdiction in the...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
May 14, 2008 Gov. Mike Easley has submitted his last spending plan to the North Carolina General Assembly. The term-limited Easley's final pitch contains no real surprises, pleasant or otherwise. It does, however, reflect eight years of Easley's priorities that will in time become his legacy — again, pleasant or otherwise. Easley's plan tweaks the two-year budget...
