By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Wednesday, June 15, 2011 A North Carolina state government budget written by Republicans that cuts taxes, scales back environmental controls and trims courts and dozens of agencies became law Wednesday despite Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue’s arguments it would eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. The two-year spending plan took
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Sat, Jun 11, 2011 A look at where legislation stands Find a bill The N.C. General Assembly’s web site allows visitors to search for bills by number or by key words: www.ncleg.net/. Keep up with the latest breaking news from the legislature at our Under the
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US NEWS America’s Fading Exceptionalism Only serious leadership on immigration, the national debt, and unemployment will make America great once again By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: June 10, 2011 Our 21st century does not seem to be on course to be described as the “American century,” the title indubitably merited for the 20th century. For
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JUNE 10, 2011 The New Jersey Supreme Court passes an appropriations bill. Who needs an excuse to raise taxes when a state Supreme Court will tip the scales? That’s the story in New Jersey, where the justices recently inserted themselves into state fiscal policy, much to taxpayer dismay. By a 3-2 vote, the state high
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June 09, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Feds Push for National Vehicle Mileage-Based Tax By Karen McMahan RALEIGH — Critics of a vehicle mileage-based tax note that boosting the cost of driving might push more commuters into public transit — a goal of the administration and advocates of a “smart growth” urban planning agenda.
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fat City Thank you, Illinois taxpayers, for my cushy life. David Rubinstein May 30, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 35 After 34 years of teaching sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I recently retired at age 64 at 80 percent of my pay for life. This calculation was
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MAY 25, 2011 No one ever questions George Soros money, but apparently this $1.5 million gift violates academic freedom. By DONALD LUSKIN Times are tough for state-funded colleges like Florida State University. After four years of budget trimming, FSU now faces an additional $19 million in cuts and a $40 million deficit. So it’s an
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The End of an Idea — Why Affirmative Action Should Stop May 16, 2011 – 1:01 pm – by Victor Davis Hanson 2011, not 1970? We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. If the original intent was to level
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June 2011 THE ATLANTIC Who better to lead an educational revolution than Joel Klein, the prosecutor who took on the software giant Microsoft? But in his eight years as chancellor of New York City’s school system, the nation’s largest, Klein learned a few painful lessons of his own—about feckless politicians, recalcitrant unions, mediocre teachers, and
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