Archive for July, 2008

Time to renew the fight against HIV/AIDS

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Most of the headlines about HIV/AIDS in recent years are about efforts to control the disease in Africa, but the deadly epidemic is still raging in the United States, particularly in African-American communities in the rural South, including many parts of North Carolina.

Crucial Conversation Luncheon

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

We know it’s summer time, but some issues just won’t wait… 
Please come to a special NC Policy Watch Crucial Conversation lunch:

Duke’s controversial "Save-A-Watt"program

Find out why a diverse group of social justice, consumer rights and environmental groups are telling the North…

Students still in limbo

Thursday, July 31st, 2008


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The price of using less

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Greensboro News-Record

Executions pose dilemma for doctors

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Raleigh News & Observer

Facing questions, Edwards evades reporters

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Raleigh News & Observer

Driving is flash point at national seashore

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Raleigh News & Observer

A slim pay day

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Raleigh News & Observer

A coming crisis for those needing personal care

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Raleigh News & Observer

State takes control of mental health facility’s finances

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Wilmington StarNews

NC group files complaint about Republican PAC

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Lexington Dispatch

Why 2008 will be a year for North Carolina Democrats

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Asheville Citizen-Times

No smoking: Nobody can light up around schools, but there’s more tobacco work to do.

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Fayetteville Observer

Outrage in Alamance

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The folks in Alamance County must be feeling awfully safe these days. A popular local librarian was arrested at work by sheriff’s deputies and three children, one just six years old, were left to fend for themselves in a car on the side of an interstate highway at 2:00 in the morning after their mother was dragged away in handcuffs.

China Trade Has Cost North Carolina 79,800 Jobs

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

North Carolina lost a net of 79,800 jobs to China from 2001 to 2007. In absolute terms, North Carolina lost more jobs, on net, than all but seven states. Every non-farm economic sector shed jobs with the greatest drops occurring in manufacturing and professional/ scientific/ technical services.