Legislative Clock Stops as Lee's Time in Senate Comes to a Close
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>RALEIGH -- Desks were cleared. Hands were shaken. Goodbyes were said.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>RALEIGH -- Desks were cleared. Hands were shaken. Goodbyes were said.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Funding for a new $130 million cancer treatment center at UNC-Chapel Hill was blocked in a close vote in the N.C. House Finance Committee late Monday night.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Patients treated at the N.C. Clinical Cancer Center located in the 50-year-old Gravely Building will move to a new $130 million complex next door if an N.C. Senate provision is approved.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>RALEIGH -- After months of struggling to craft a budget while contending with one of the worst fiscal situations in the state's history, legislators approved a $14.3 billion budget Thursday that Democratic leaders hailed as a victory for education.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>RALEIGH -- After weeks of political gridlock and behind-the-scenes maneuvering, N.C. House and Senate leaders reached an agreement on a $14.3 billion state budget plan late Wednesday.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>RALEIGH -- N.C. House and Senate budget writers headed back into conference Tuesday night after a failed lottery referendum bill forced them to the cutting board once again to trim another $70 million -- a portion of which likely will come from the UNC-system budget.
RALEIGH -- Despite months of backroom political wrangling, Democratic leaders' efforts were overturned Tuesday when a bill calling for a lottery referendum was overwhelmingly defeated in the N.C. House.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>RALEIGH -- After hours of wrangling behind closed doors, N.C. House conferees signed off late Monday on a $14.3 billion budget proposal for the 2002-03 fiscal year that includes a provision for a lottery referendum.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A good cover letter can move your application from the discard pile to the top of the stack of potential hires, officials say.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The UNC-system Board of Governors approved a resolution supporting academic freedom Friday, effectively wrapping up debate on an issue that has been a matter of contention for several months.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In an act intended to boost student empowerment, about 500 N.C. State University students marched onto Chancellor Marye Anne Fox's lawn at 1 a.m. Friday, demanding that she explain cuts to university services.
Students' needs and system officials' priorities went head to head Thursday over the potential hiring of an administrator for the UNC-system Association of Student Governments.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Despite refusing Republican candidate Elizabeth Dole's challenge to halt all political advertising, Democrat Erskine Bowles said he is committed to running an issue-based campaign.
Rep. Dan Blue, D-Wake, who lost in his bid for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, has yet to endorse Erskine Bowles, the victor in Tuesday's primary election.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Legislative budget leaders reached an agreement Monday on a higher education spending plan that embodies the best-case scenario for the UNC system.
In the last full day before today's primaries, U.S. Senate hopefuls scrambled to make last-minute appearances across the state while state Senate candidates Ellie Kinnaird and Howard Lee took a more laid-back approach to campaigning.
There were more cameras than coffee pots at Mama Dip's Kitchen on Friday morning.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Four Democrats filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, charging that Republican N.C. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole and Wal-Mart Corporation violated campaign contribution regulations.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Accustomed to staring down rabble-rousers on a university campus, Gunther Doerr now finds all eyes on him.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Chapel Hill and Carrboro officials say they regret that this year's primary will split a pair of local state senators, but they disagree on which lawmaker should ultimately return to Raleigh.