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2 hrs ago | Daily Kos

NC-Sen: PPP, Kay Hagan (D) Tied With Cherie Berry (R), Virginia Foxx (R) Still GOP Voters Top Choice

PPP did their monthly poll of the 2014 North Carolina U.S. Senate Race and there's some new developments mixed with some old news.

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Related Topix: Virginia Foxx, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Renee Ellmers, Senator Kay Hagan, US Senate, Democrat, North Carolina

Wed May 22, 2013

Kinston Free Press

LaRoque pay, loan called into question

The Johnston County commissioner was on the board of directors for former Rep. Stephen LaRoque's private non-profit, East Carolina Development Company, from the beginning.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Agriculture, Science, US News, United States Department of Agriculture

New Media Journal

Anti-Sharia Law Heads to State House Floor

The latest version of a bill intended to protect the constitutional rights of North Carolinians from "foreign laws" is on its way to the House floor after a contentious hearing in the House Judiciary C Committee.

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Related Topix: North Carolina

WFMY 2 Greensboro

Gov. McCrory Sits Down For One-On-One Interview

Wednesday, McCrory sat down for a one-on-one interview with WFMY News 2's Morgan Hightowe r to recap and lay out his legislative priorities.

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Related Topix: Pat McCrory, US Governors, Healthcare Law, Law, Tax, Virginia, Tennessee Government, Virginia Government, Tennessee, North Carolina

ABC11

North Carolina House bill opens renegotiation on Dix property

A North Carolina House panel recommended a bill Wednesday that buys time for the city of Raleigh to renegotiate a lease for the 325-acre Dorothea Dix property with the state.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, US Governors, Beverly Perdue, Healthcare Law, Law, Pat McCrory

WDBZ-AM Cincinnati

Nearly 60 North Carolinians Arrested In Growing Protests

Progressive protests against a wave of conservative legislation in the North Carolina State House show little sign of weakening at the one month milestone.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Death Penalty

Watauga Democrat

NC Senate leaders unveil budget plan

North Carolina Senate leaders on Sunday released a $20.6 billion state budget proposal for the 2013-14 fiscal year as part of a biennium budget plan.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Pat McCrory, US Governors, Education Etc.

Jacksonville Daily News

Grant awarded for Swansboro community garden

The Swansboro Parks and Recreation Department has been awarded a $3,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina as part of the Nourishing North Carolina initiative.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, North Carolina, Swansboro, NC

WAVY-TV Portsmouth

NC lawmakers donning hats, bowa

The North Carolina General Assembly is taking time out to suit up with big hats, bow ties and basketball uniforms.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, North Carolina State University

WLOS

NC Medicaid shortfall now $330 million-plus

The North Carolina office that oversees Medicaid says the funding shortfall for the government health insurance program is more than $330 million.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, North Carolina, Pat McCrory, US Governors, Beverly Perdue

WLOS

ARC of NC leader going to state government post

A longtime advocate for people with mental disabilities in North Carolina is joining state government as the director of the agency that oversees services for them and others with mental illness or alcohol or drug abuse problems.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health

Tue May 21, 2013

WSOCTV

Residents ask questions about Independence Blvd. construction

Dozens of people who live off of Independence Boulevard came out Tuesday night to learn about plans to widen it.

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Related Topix: North Carolina

The Miami Herald

As farm bill debate looms, Tarheel lawmakers gird for fight over tobacco

The U.S. Senate this week has started to fine-tune the huge, new five-year farm bill, working through votes on a series of amendments that will include a proposal to eliminate federal subsidies for tobacco insurance.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Richard Hudson, Senator Kay Hagan, Mike McIntyre, US Senate, Democrat, Richard Burr, North Carolina

WCTI

Opening statements begin in LaRoque's federal trial

Opening statements began Monday afternoon in the trial of of former State Representative Stephen LaRoque.

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Related Topix: North Carolina

Mon May 20, 2013

Burlington Times News

An unfair burden?

With vexing problems facing our state leaders, here's a fix many kids - and adults - would deem a "no-brainer:" Legislators can make North Carolina's communities safer and save millions of dollars with a change to the way the we treat 16- and 17- years olds charged with misdemeanors.

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Related Topix: Kids, North Carolina, Prison, Opinion

EurekAlert!

2 radiotherapy treatments show similar morbidity, cancer control after prostatectomy

Use of the newer, more expensive intensity-modulated radiotherapy and use of the older conformal radiotherapy after surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland were associated with similar morbidity and cancer control outcomes, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine , a JAMA Network publication.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Medicare

The Mountaineer Publishing Company

N.C. activists need teachable Tuesdays

The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is spearheading a weekly series of protests at the state legislature called "Moral Mondays" directed against Republican-supported bills such as tax reform and voter ID.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, North Carolina, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Prison

The Charlotte Observer

N.C. Senate delivers $20.58 billion budget proposal

Sen. Phil Berger, left, listens to Sen. Bob Rucho, right, speak during a press conference with other Republican senators to discuss their ideas to put forth a new tax plan for North Carolina.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Pat McCrory, US Governors, Healthcare Law, Law, Archdale, NC, Standardized Testing, Education, Medicaid, Health

WLOS

NC NAACP enters 4th week of legislative protests

The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is entering its fourth straight week of protests at the state legislature that have resulted in nearly 100 arrests so far.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, North Carolina

Sun May 19, 2013

News Observer

LaRoque’s federal theft trial gets under way Monday

Former state Rep. Stephen LaRoque of Kinston will go on trial in federal court in Greenville on Monday on charges that he enriched himself with U.S. Department of Agriculture money that he was supposed to loan to struggling rural business owners.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Agriculture, Science