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News Source: Uinta County News
| 11 months ago
When President-elect Obama met with America's governors earlier this week , he got an earful about the recession-induced budget crisis they face. On Thursday those words of woe were backed up by a fresh report on the rapidly deteriorating condition...
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News Source: The News & Observer
| 11 months ago
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dempsey Benton will not stay on for the administration of Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue. Benton, a former Raleigh city manager, was named secretary in May 2007 and wound up dealing with the debacle in the...
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News Source: The News & Observer
| 11 months ago
Franklin Freeman, legislative liaison for Gov. Mike Easley, plans to retire next month, ending a 38-year career in state government ranging from local prosecutor to a seat on the state Supreme Court. Freeman's career spans 45 years if you count his...
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News Source: Greensboro News and Records
| 11 months ago
North Carolina Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue said Wednesday she is "looking aggressively" for a new chief of the state's troubled mental health system, indicating that Health and Human Services Secretary Dempsey Benton won't be a permanent part of her...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 11 months ago
A fitness equipment company plans to build a manufacturing facility in North Carolina, investing more than $26 million and adding 142 over the next three years. Woodinville, Wash.-based Precor Inc. said Wednesday it would build the facility in...
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News Source: Greensboro News and Records
| 11 months ago
Gov. Mike Easley is in Florida talking to his old attorney general friends about North Carolina's new foreclosure reduction program. Easley said he is attending the winter meetings of the National Association of Attorneys General in Fort Lauderdale.
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News Source: United Press International
| 11 months ago
A federal stimulus package that funnels money to states must go to carefully chosen projects to have the desired effect, Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine said. "The problem is going to be ... how to spend that money," Kaine said. "We all know about the...
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News Source: The News & Observer
| 11 months ago
During a two-day orientation, five newly elected state senators and a number of new state House representatives are learning how to make their way through the legislature, literally and figuratively. Sen.-elect Don Vaughan said the group has heard...
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News Source: Washington Post
| 11 months ago
With President-elect Barack Obama vowing to plow hundreds of billions of dollars into the nation's infrastructure, some state officials are warning that public works projects will fail to effectively lift the country out of recession unless they are...
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News Source: Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency for the State of California on Monday. The Governor blamed the states’ growing budget shortfall, calling on lawmakers during a special legislative session in his office to rally to his plan...