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General AssemblyPerdue vetoes health plan, student loan billsSubmitted by WWAY on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 7:49pm.READ MORE:
Gov. Bev Perdue has vetoed two bills, including one that would have required monthly premiums for all active North Carolina state workers and teachers for health insurance.
Full story... » Senate to hear posthumous pardon for NC governorSubmitted by WWAY on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 8:47am.READ MORE:
The North Carolina Senate is ready to consider whether to clear a Reconstruction-era governor 140 years after the chamber removed him from his job when he called out the militia to quell an insurrection by the Ku Klux Klan.
Full story... » NC considering paying students for good gradesSubmitted by WWAY on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 1:35pm.READ MORE:
North Carolina legislators aiming to improve education are looking at whether to pay students for coming to class and earning good grades.
Full story... » Plan puts NC health insurance on chopping blockSubmitted by WWAY on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 1:05pm.READ MORE:
Most of North Carolina's state workers, teachers and retirees would pay more for health insurance but get fewer benefits under a half-billion-dollar change being considered by lawmakers.
Full story... » NC Senate panel OKs changes for faulted SBI labSubmitted by WWAY on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 1:20pm.READ MORE:
More North Carolina lawmakers are signing on to reforming a state crime lab shamed by findings that employees may have tailored their work to help prosecutors in hundreds of cases.
Full story... » Limits for speaker, pro tem OK'd by NC House panelSubmitted by WWAY on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 12:17pm.READ MORE:
North Carolina voters could decide whether to limit the top leaders of the state House and Senate to a maximum of four years in charge under a measure recommended by a legislative committee.
Full story... » Tillis says health care overhaul bill isn't overSubmitted by WWAY on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 4:43pm.READ MORE:
House Speaker Thom Tillis has a message for Democrats about Gov. Bev Perdue's vetoes: Watch your backs.
Full story... » GOP likely needs more Democrats for veto overrideSubmitted by WWAY on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 1:29pm.READ MORE:
House Republican leaders say they'll probably go ahead to try to override Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto blocking an effort to challenge a provision in the federal health care overhaul law, although it appears Democrats are closing ranks against it.
Full story... » Bill would allow concealed guns in parks, eateriesSubmitted by WWAY on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 1:10pm.READ MORE:
People carrying legally concealed handguns in North Carolina could take them into more restaurants and into state and local parks if an idea in the House becomes law.
Full story... » Piedmont to win, rural areas lose in NC remappingSubmitted by WWAY on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 4:07pm.READ MORE:
Republicans in charge of redrawing North Carolina legislative districts will set boundaries with an eye to the Piedmont.
Full story... » Charter bill criticized by Perdue, NC House DemsSubmitted by WWAY on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:31pm.READ MORE:
House Democrats and Gov. Bev Perdue are trying to slow a charter school bill that passed the North Carolina Senate last week.
Full story... » Attorney General continues defiance of health care reform challengeSubmitted by Asha Dave on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 5:45pm.READ MORE:Perdue vetoes first bill by Republican majoritySubmitted by WWAY on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 5:06pm.READ MORE:
Gov. Bev Perdue has used her veto for the first time on legislation approved by the new
Republican majority at the Legislature.
Full story... » GOP lawmakers one vote away from health care bill OKSubmitted by WWAY on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 10:28am.READ MORE:
A Republican-penned bill seeking North Carolina to challenge the 2010 health care overhaul law is one vote away from Democratic Gov. Bev. Perdue, who seems ready to ignore the measure if it hits her desk.
Full story... » Perdue dims veto threat on GOP's health challengeSubmitted by Kevin Wuzzardo on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 3:08pm.READ MORE:
Gov. Bev Perdue says Republican-backed legislation pushing North Carolina to join other states fighting the federal health care overhaul law isn't worth a veto battle.
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