Fresh faces hit Raleigh
RALEIGH — Before casting a single vote or introducing a single bill, freshman legislators might already have made their most lasting mark on the 2005-06 session of the N.C. General Assembly.
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RALEIGH — Before casting a single vote or introducing a single bill, freshman legislators might already have made their most lasting mark on the 2005-06 session of the N.C. General Assembly.
Rep. Verla Insko might not have been worried about ballot-counting on Election Day — she ran unopposed — but the Orange County Democrat has made accurate vote-tallying a priority in her first week back at the legislature.
During the next month, the UNC system’s governing body will look into the issue of whether campuses are doing enough to attract minority-owned businesses when awarding construction contracts.
The UNC system has officially crossed the halfway mark in spending the $2.5 billion from the Higher Education Bond Program approved by voters in 2000.
In Chapel Hill, drivers caught sailing through a red light will be seeing the flashing blue and reds atop a police cruiser. But a flashbulb might be all that drivers notice in many other North Carolina cities.
Just two days before Christmas, the federal Department of Education unveiled a revised formula for calculating financial aid.
About 1,500 UNC-Chapel Hill students will see a reduction in federal aid next year as a result of recalculated Pell Grants, but the University and the state should be able to offset those losses.
The federal government has put forth a proposal to collect individual college students' records into a nationwide database, and UNC-system officials say such a move could be beneficial.
The federal government is considering a sweeping change in the way it collects and manages data about college students.
As widely expected, the overwhelming majority of UNC-system schools are readying proposals for campus-based tuition increases for the 2005-06 academic year.
In the wake of a million-dollar scandal at the N.C. School of the Arts discovered in October, UNC-system President Molly Broad has directed the system's governing body to consider stricter supervision of campus finances.
The UNC system is set to ask the N.C. General Assembly for more than $786 million in additional funding during the next two years - an increase of 38 percent.
As the UNC system continues to pursue an ambitious plan for increasing enrollment, the system's governing body hopes to persuade the N.C. General Assembly to automatically set aside funding for future enrollment growth.
Speaking in the packed Rotunda of UNC's School of Law, Alan Keyes told his audience that "the guild of lawyers and judges constitute the pool from which the dictators of our society will be chosen."
Rep. Verla Insko, a four-term Democrat from Orange County, will win her bid for a fifth term.
The UNC systemwide campus safety task force, formed earlier this year in the aftermath of two murders at UNC-Wilmington, is set to complete its report sometime in the next few weeks.
WILMINGTON - As the UNC system's governing body nears a November vote on systemwide tuition increases, the system's tuition task force will work to finalize its recommendations during a Tuesday conference call.
With construction equipment still rumbling across many UNC-system campuses, the system's governing body already is looking past phase one of its ambitious building plan - and preparing to seek financing for phase two.
Human resources officials in the UNC-system president's office are cautiously exploring the idea of a change in the system's relationship with the state health care plan.
Senate candidates Erskine Bowles and Richard Burr squared off in their first formal debate Monday night, sparring over trade policy, job creation and national security.