Monthly Archives: May 2009
NC bullying rules approved by House panel
Report: NC House member says he’ll leave this year
EDITORIAL: Shorter School Year? You Must Be Kidding
Apple moves closer to money tree
Prison closure, other cuts proposed
Bill would allow bigger raffle prizes
More budget blues
The House budget continues to dominate the legislative world, with many appropriations subcommittees releasing proposals Thursday that were as bad as expected and in many cases worse, cutting millions in funding for individual programs in education and human services and directing agency heads to find even bigger cuts in their departments, exposing some individual programs and services to two rounds of reductions. [Continue Reading...]
Thursday commentary
Between a Rock and Hard Place: NC’s Worsening Budget Gap Calls for Spending Cuts and Tax Increases
The North Carolina Budget & Tax Center just released a new issue brief looking at the state's worsening budget gap. This budget shortfall is more than 20% of the current state budget which means that NC has the 11th largest projected budget gap for fiscal year 2009-10. This means that the NC House [Continue Reading...]
