An editorial Tuesday said a preliminary state House budget would provide $9 million “more” for public television. It should have said the budget would restore $9 million for the UNC Center for Public Television. UNC-TV’s budget appropriation was cut to $10.6 million for the current budget year, but nothing was guaranteed for the upcoming budget year. Hence, the $9 million would be a $1.6 million reduction.
Modified: 05/29/12 06:39:58 PMTracey Cline, former Durham district attorney, will be challenged to try to defend her behavior as the N.C. State Bar files a complaint.
Modified: 05/29/12 06:39:58 PMNeither fairness nor the cause of good government is served by indefinite delays in veto override votes.
Modified: 05/29/12 06:38:58 PMComment: Agriculture has launched its election-year assault on our pocketbook under the cover of the 2012 Farm Bill, introduced in the U.S. Senate last week.
Modified: 05/29/12 04:39:57 PMEditorial: The victims of involuntary sterilization deserve compensation, but nothing could make up for what was done to them in the state’s name.
Modified: 05/29/12 04:02:28 AMEditorial: The framework of a state House budget is curious, but will likely face dramatic alteration in the Senate.
Modified: 05/29/12 04:02:22 AMEditorial: Memorial Day observances are the least we owe the fallen.
Modified: 05/27/12 02:32:25 PMeditorial: Could some of the air – or natural gas – be coming out of the fracking balloon?
Modified: 05/26/12 06:53:29 PMWalter Dalton, Democrat, and Pat McCrory, Republican, are going to draw a lot of money and help from people who seem to approach politics in an attack mode.
Modified: 05/25/12 03:35:51 PMeditorial: Within a few short weeks the enduring truth of summer will take full command.
Modified: 05/26/12 06:52:59 PMA bipartisan effort in Congress should help drug approval and prevent sudden shortages of important medications.
Modified: 05/25/12 03:34:47 PMEditorial: State Sen. Phil Berger should allow his colleagues more time to study his plans for changing reading rules, the length of the school year and teacher tenure.
Modified: 05/25/12 05:37:04 AMEditorial: A Catawba County minister favors the deaths of gay people.
Modified: 05/25/12 05:37:22 AMEditorial: UNC Hospitals and WakeMed have come to a productive compromise that should end the bickering between the two.
Modified: 05/24/12 03:57:45 AMEditorial: Wake school board and Superintendent Tony Tata seek ways to get along better, which is important.
Modified: 05/24/12 03:57:58 AMEditorial: It is not neat and tidy, and it will leave American and other allied troops in harm’s way for another two years in Afghanistan. But by the end of 2014, President Barack Obama and his fellow leaders at the NATO summit promise Afghanistan will be on its own.
Modified: 05/23/12 03:57:58 AMEditorial: Wake schools need money, and county commissioners should try to find it.
Modified: 05/23/12 03:58:13 AM
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