(Raleigh, NC) – The North Carolina Division of Social Services (NCDSS) has been awarded grant funding for Project Broadcast: Disseminating Trauma-Informed Practices to Children in the North Carolina Child Welfare System. This project provides the state $640,000 each year for five years (through September 2016). Its aim is to help provide children with services and [...]
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More than 50 Mayors, from Manteo to Franklin, Spotlight Legislature’s Cuts to Their Schools (Raleigh, NC) – Mayors from across North Carolina, who every day see in their schools the damage from the General Assembly’s education cuts, have issued an open letter asking the people of North Carolina to support Gov. Perdue’s plan to reverse [...]
Debt relief company took consumers’ money but did little to help them, Cooper says (Raleigh, NC) – A bogus Florida law firm that falsely claimed it would reduce consumers’ debts by more than half has been barred from debt relief work in North Carolina, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Tuesday. “Debt relief scams take [...]
Perdue Pushes To Temporarily Restore Three-Quarters Of The One-Cent Sales Tax To Stop Deep and Unnecessary Cuts to Schools (Raleigh, NC) – On Tuesday, January 17, 2012, Gov. Perdue issued the following statement regarding her plan for the future of North Carolina schools. “Education has always been part of the fabric of who we are [...]
System that bars illegal purchases of drug’s key ingredient already working (Raleigh, NC) - A new law to help fight methamphetamine labs has already stopped more than 1,600 illegal purchases of the key ingredient needed to make the drug, Attorney General Roy Cooper said today. Under the new law, which took effect January 1, [...]
Programs essential to protecting families nationwide (Raleigh, NC) – Attorney General Roy Cooper joined 52 other attorneys general in calling on Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”) and ensure that vital programs working to keep women and families safe from violence and abuse continue uninterrupted. “Domestic violence is a serious issue that [...]
BY: Tom Gillespie Jan. 09, 2012 For those looking for something more than New Year’s resolutions of diet and exercise this year, consider reshaping your life by becoming a volunteer at the North Carolina Zoo. The zoo is seeking individuals willing to make a minimum 90-hour per-year commitment serving as exhibit interpreters, wildlife rehabilitators, Zoo [...]
(Raleigh, NC) – Gov. Bev Perdue today issued the following statement regarding the legislature’s actions: “Last year, the Republicans passed devastating education cuts that harmed our children’s future. The cuts – from pre-k all the way through higher education – have led to higher class sizes, the loss of thousands of teacher and teacher assistant [...]
Electric utility’s requested rate hike too much, brief says Release date: 1/9/2012 (Raleigh, NC) - Utilities commissioners should heed the economic damage to North Carolina consumers before signing off on Duke Energy’s rate increase, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Monday in a filing before the NC Utilities Commission. Cooper opposes Duke Energy’s request to raise [...]
–excerpt from Charlotte Motor Speedway– More than 216,000 North Carolina residents served in Vietnam, and some 1,600 made the ultimate sacrifice in that war. Now, the USO of North Carolina and Charlotte Motor Speedway, with support from the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, will honor their service with an incredible Vietnam Veterans Homecoming Celebration on [...]
