NC Rural Center
NC Rural Center
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NC RURAL CENTER
Former president of Tanner to manage Rural Center transition
Laura Kendall, a former business associate of Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker, will work on a 60-day contract as state government takes over the functions of the Rural Economic Development Center.
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NC RURAL CENTER
McCrory to give more than $730,000 in grants to 14 rural center programs
Gov. Pat McCrory’s office announced Sunday that 14 programs formerly funded by the state Rural Economic Center will get grants totaling more than $730,000 from the state Commerce Department.
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NC RURAL CENTER
Lee resigns as chair of NC Rural Center board
Valeria Lee, chair of the Rural Economic Development Center, resigned Wednesday afternoon. She didn't elaborate on why she chose to quit now, two days after a Rural Center board meeting at which she declined to resign, but the center has been under fire from legislators and the state auditor. And...
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EDITORIALS
What now for the Rural Center?
The NC Rural Economic Development Center and its board have been taking fire, justifiably so, after News & Observer reports on the director's excessive salary and connections between grants and some of the center's board members. A state audit also was critical of oversight or a lack thereof. But...
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NC RURAL CENTER
Rural Center board confronts bleak future, holds up severance payment
The board of directors at the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center set up a special committee to consider the future and act on its behalf in sorting out its money over the next month. The board agreed to hold up any authorization of a nearly $242,000 severance payment to its former president, ...
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NC RURAL CENTER
Rural Center board is intertwined in its grants
A third of the board’s membership has worked for, or is involved with, other organizations that have benefitted from Rural Center grants.
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NC RURAL CENTER
Under proposed budget, Rural Center funding would go to other assistance initiatives
The proposed state budget cuts off any new taxpayer funding to the troubled N.C. Rural Economic Development Center and steers the state toward a new approach on rural assistance.
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NC RURAL CENTER
McCrory administration freezes Rural Center's cash
The Rural Center cannot spend state money under an order from the governor’s office. Billy Ray Hall, president of the Rural Center since 1987, steps down after a critical state audit and pressure from Gov. Pat McCrory.
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NC RURAL CENTER
Senator takes a swing at Hall’s ‘parachute’
Senate leader Phil Berger said Rural Center president Billy Ray Hall should not receive a “golden parachute” severance in the wake of a News & Observer series last month and then the state audit this week.
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NC RURAL CENTER
McCrory administration freezes Rural Center funds
In an order hand-delivered to the Rural Center on Thursday, state budget director Art Pope wrote that no more money will flow to the center, no more state money can be spent by the center and that the McCrory administration is considering “the further step” of seeking recovery of all...
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