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Sunday, 10 July 2011 23:00 |
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State Secretary of Transportation Dr. Gene Conti tells host Barlow Herget that the Department of Transportation came out "pretty well" in the recent budget bill. DOT, he says, must cut 400 jobs but Conti expects to do that with attrition rather than sending employees into the unemployment lines. He says his department is following recommendations from Governor Perdue's task force to incorporate the State Ports Authority and the Global Transpark onto the DOT structure, and he believes the Transpark will benefit in jobs from new jet airplane orders by Airbus at the recent Paris Air Show. Conti also estimates that the federal stimulus in 2009 put 20,000 to 30,000 construction workers to work on North Carolina road projects, and he reveals that $200 million of the $812 million total has yet to be spent although it is committed. |
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Tuesday, 05 July 2011 23:00 |
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State Sen. Neal Hunt, R-Wake, tells host Barlow Herget how the Republicans in the General Assembly this session were able to move through their agenda and adjourn before June 30. Unlike previous Democratic majorities, there was much more talk between House and Senate leaders about their party's bills and the budget bill in particular. Hunt also argues that his party's decision not to extend the one-cent sales and income taxes on big incomes will create jobs. He recounts what happened to his bill to pardon former Republican Gov. William Holden, the only governor to be impeached and convicted. It's a story with intrigues and old Civil War memories by some who don't forget, 140 years later. |
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Monday, 27 June 2011 23:00 |
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How did the Republicans in the General Assembly, in charge of both houses for the first time in more than 100 years, keep the trains running on time in this session? Barlow Herget's guest on this edition of the Exclusive has a couple of good reasons to explain the Republican majority's success in meeting their own deadline to adjourn before June 30, the official end of the budget year. Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program for Public Life at UNC-CH and Hall of Fame journalist, says that GOP discipline and a shutout of Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue in final budget negotiations did the trick. |
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Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:00 |
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How is this legislature changing how you vote and when you vote? And whether you can vote a straight ticket? One of the state's most experienced watchdogs on elections and campaign finance regulations, Bob Hall, is this week’s guest. Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, tells host Barlow Herget that voters in several proposals supported by the Republican majority in both Senate and House will be required to show a photo identification when they go to the polls. Hall says as many as 400,000 voters - mostly elderly and minorities - don't have such documents. There also will be a week less for early voting, and no more straight ticket voting if these bills become law. In addition, Hall weighs in on a bill that would transfer lobbying regulation and campaign finance reporting from the Secretary of State's office and Board of Election respectively to the State Ethics Commission. |
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011 15:07 |
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Where will the legislative budget leave North Caroline in national rankings on teacher pay? Has the state made progress in public education in the past 20 years or has it not been going anywhere? The Public Forum's new President and Executive Director Jo Ann Norris tells host Barlow Herget that the budget bill jeopardizes the progress North Carolina has made over the past 20 years in education. Norris notes the state's big improvement in graduation rates, now over 70 percent. She predicts the bill could set back public schools with such provisions as abolishing the productive and popular Teaching Fellows program. |
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