Brian Gaither

Recent articles

Teachers face same issues

While the state budget saved more than 1,600 teaching jobs, teachers are entering the new school year with still fewer colleagues and fewer supplies than before the budget crisis. The North Carolina budget is at its lowest in 14 years, and the money allocated for education has become restrictive. N.C. JUL 14

Final budget cuts fewer than expected

UNC-system students will be facing the effects of a less-than-expected slash to the system’s budget after the N.C. General Assembly agreed on an appropriations bill Tuesday. JUN 30

N.C. leaders prepare for possible oil spill effects

While the BP oil spill leaks an estimated 35,000 to 100,000 barrels a day, people in North Carolina are preparing for possible effects it might have on the state’s coastline. Experts expect the damage to the state’s coast to be minimal, but the spill has entered the state’s politics. “It will probably just be a nuisance and not much of an environmental consequence to North Carolina,” said Rick Luettich, director of UNC’s Institute of Marine Science. N.C. JUN 24

UNC student ﬁghts ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

As a cadet in the UNC ROTC, senior Sara Isaacson believed in the seven army values.

But it was her commitment to those values, she says, that resulted in her removal from the program and cost her $79,000 in repayment of her federal scholarship to serve in the ROTC at UNC.
JUN 10

Lewis backs former rival

Chapel Hill lawyer Ken Lewis went from losing in the North Carolina Democratic primary to serving as campaign chairman for the primary’s winner.

N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall added Lewis as her campaign chairman for the June 22 runoff against Cal Cunningham and potentially to defeat incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., come November.
JUN 3

NCSU partners with French school

The Triangle region and its universities are expanding their horizons into international business with a foreign university moving to the Centennial Campus at N.C. State.

The French business school SKEMA will bring students to learn American business by capitalizing on the opportunities in the Research Triangle Park.
MAY 27