Archive for May, 2005

Read Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight’s Acceptance Speech

Friday, May 27th, 2005

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Summary of Gov. Easley’s Budget

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

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List of Medicaid “optional” benefits

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

Wake schools’ request may be cut

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Wake County could give the school system about $17 million less than it requested next year.

Easley avoids wrecking car ‘by the skin of his teeth’

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Gov. Mike Easley is pushed from a curb after he lost control of a borrowed race car. The incident occurred seconds after he peeled out of the Executive Mansion driveway in downtown Raleigh. Easley narrowly missed crashing into a utility pole and a parked car.

Religious protesters picket churches

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

A group of protesters from Kansas continued spreading its anti-homosexual message by holding picket signs and chanting outside seven Durham churches Sunday morning.

County: ‘Niceties’ out for schools

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

“Niceties” such as laptops for every middle and high school teacher and 40 after-school buses may need to be trimmed from the Durham Public Schools’ budget request, the Board of County Commissioners told school board members in a joint meeting on Monday.

Bush’s Georgia visit takes history full circle

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

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