Printer Friendly
Email to a Friend
Enlarge Font
Decrease Font
All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.
Get $150+ in coupons in every Sunday N&O. Click here for convenient home delivery.
Story Tools
More Politics
Most Popular
Last 24 Hours
Last 7 Days
Last 24 Hours
Last 7 Days
Advertisements
RALEIGH - Possibly coming to a TV near you: live broadcasts of the state House of Representatives in action.State House Speaker Joe Hackney has set up a committee to study the feasibility, cost and other aspects of live broadcasts of the House in session, his office has announced."Televising our sessions will give the people of North Carolina better insight into the work we do here and open up the process to more people in this state," Hackney said in a news release. "We want our citizens to see and understand how their government and their elected representatives work for them."Rep. Cullie M. Tarleton of Blowing Rock will be the committee chairman. He is a former senior vice president and general manager for WBTV, WBT Radio and WCCB-TV and a former member of the board of directors for the National Association of Broadcasters.The committee's final report will be due before the 2009 General Assembly convenes.The General Assembly already provides live audio broadcasts of floor sessions in the House and the Senate, as well as meetings of the finance and appropriations committees and press conferences.
No comments have been posted for this story. Log in to be the first to comment.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
