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Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:00 |
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Scott Mooneyham of the Capital Press Association and Bruce Ferrell of the NC News Network join host Barlow Herget to look at the state Senate's version of the budget that was unveiled this week. It's not only about the $19.4 billion; there also are many policy changes such as the uprooting of the SBI and its laboratory. The state House is trying again to get around a veto from Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue with a different bill that would extend jobless benefits to thousands of North Carolinians. But the bill still has a rider that forces the Perdue to agree to GOP budget numbers. |
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Thursday, 19 May 2011 23:00 |
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Has Washington Fever spread to Raleigh? N&O political columnist and reporter Rob Christensen tells Weekly News Review host Barlow Herget that there is a hardening of positions by Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue and the Republican controlled legislature over the budget. Christensen says that the N.C. Constitution, if no continuing resolution is adopted as in the past, does not allow any state spending if there's no budget by July 1. None. SGR Today reporter and blogster Josh Ellis says the current temporary one-cent sales tax expires June 30. The panel also looks at the good news that the Governor and legislature moved forward this week the compromise state employees Health Plan bill that shifts the Plan to State Treasurer Janet Cowell's office and closes a half-billion funding shortfall. Ruffin Poole is sentenced to prison this week and there's serious talk, given budget cutbacks, that the UNC System may impose enrollment caps for the first time. |
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 23:00 |
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Did Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-10th District, let the cat out of the bag on Republican plans to draw new congressional districts? This and other hot topics such as abortion and the state employees Health Plan are on the menu for discussion on the Weekly News Review. Two veteran reporters, Mark Binker of the Greensboro News-Record, and Bruce Ferrell of the NC News Network and WPTF News, join host Barlow Herget to review the news. One big subject is the proposed constitutional amendment that would change dramatically the governor's role in education policy and that of the state Board of Education. The panel also examines whether Governor Perdue has painted herself in a corner over the State Health Plan bill that she vetoed earlier and now comes back to her again, hardly changed. The Republicans' new limits on abortions were unveiled this week, too, and the group looks at the impact of the proposal. |
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Thursday, 05 May 2011 19:00 |
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The death of Osama bin Laden dominated the news this week, but the North Carolina state House made some big news of its own, adopting its version of the budget bill. Republicans delivered on their promise to reduce state spending. WRAL-TV's capital reporter Laura Leslie and SGRToday.com's own Josh Ellis join host Barlow Herget to review the week's events including details about the House budget bill. It affects more than money matters including transferring campaign finance reporting and lobbying regulation to the state Ethics Commission, curtailing the governor's ability to hire executive branch employees, and abolishing two state trust funds and cutting the Clean Water Trust fund by 90 percent. The panel also discusses Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry's candid remarks about how his fellow Republicans in the General Assembly will gerrymander congressional districts to give Republicans three more seats. |
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Thursday, 28 April 2011 19:00 |
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Charlotte Observer associate editor and columnist Jack Betts and SGRToday.com's Josh Ellis join host Barlow Herget to discuss the Republican legislature's increasing distraction from the efficient, business-like image of the first months of this session. The trio also looks at the status of the jobless benefits bill and the important State Health Plan legislation and how the latter is showing some of the traditional fissures between Senate and House leadership. Proposed radical changes in Medicare from Washington is having repercussions for North Carolina congressmen and women, kicking off early campaign attack ads. Ellis describes another Republican bill to change the state's early voting system. |
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