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Re: Hagan to hold stimulus roundtable

PaulTerrell — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:04:20 -0400

Challenges? We all face challenges.

Re: Perdue releases schedule

Kingixolib — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:45:14 -0500

When is Smiley coming to Southeast NC as promised....we really want to talk to her!

Re: Perdue releases schedule

lpetrou — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:45:59 -0500

I wonder if she will ever meet with the people or just the unions? And where was she last week? She hasn't gotten one penny yet of the so-called stimulus money and is already asking for more. We need to cut off the spigot.

Re: Perdue releases schedule

alaskan1 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:41:46 -0500

Political Junkie--you are a great questioner. You probably remember when the main stream media asked the tough questions. Fair and Balanced should be the motto of all media. I bet if Perdue were a republican, she would be treated differently. Why should Obama be treated differently than Clarence Thomas?

Re: Perdue releases schedule

peterlyon — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:07 -0500

Unions are one of the causes of this recession. They are also one of the prime reasons that businesses contract ofr the manufacture of their products off shore. The find it cheaper and more efficient To get the owrk done their predicitble schedules and predictable quality are something they can depend on from nonunion wrkers off shore. What does Beverly plan to talk about? or is she there to ask what she can do to make the Unions more comfortable in NC??

Re: Perdue releases schedule

Workedforthestate512 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:58:56 -0500

All are very good questions Political Junkie. You should work for the N&O because you ask the tough questions that people want answers to.

Schedule=More Questions than answers

PoliticalJunkie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:31:46 -0500

She just got her son a cushy job - ethics training coming a little late?

Is she going to pay for her State/Carolina tickets or are they a gift from the university looking for a favor in return?

Are her meetings with the AFL-CIO, State Employees' Union and Teachers' Union to negotiate the payoffs for the $4 million plus in campaign cash she received from organized labor?

And, by the way, where the heck was she last week and did she find any of the 14,000 lost probationers at her vacation destination?

Re: GOP candidates praise nonprofits

dahedgehog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:11:11 -0400

Non-profits are great. What isn't great, however, is the way North Carolina goes about deciding which non-profits will receive state funds. There's no standardized set of criteria that non-profits must meet. Nor is there any sort of competitive bid process. Instead, non-profits generally receive funding based on their political ties. Those who play the political game to gain the support of powerful members get funding.

Furthermore, there is little-to-zero follow-up determining how well these non-profits are performing.

Until there is some sort of standardization of the funding process, and a better evaluation piece, the state should stay out of the business of funding random non-profits.

Re: GOP candidates praise nonprofits

RobSchofield — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:06:34 -0400

While it was very nice that all of the GOP candidates professed their love for nonprofits, there was a troubling undercurrent to each of their comments -- namely, the insane notion that nonprofits can and ought to somehow take the place of public institutions in the provision of core services. This view was expressed most explicitly by Fred Smith.

While it is an essential component of a healthy society, the nonprofit sector cannot do what the public sector can and should do when it comes to the provision of education, health care, mental health, criminal justice etc... Indeed, unless North Carolina maintains a robust and healthy public sector, the nonprofit sector will find itself constantly overwhelmed as it tries, in vain, to pick up the slack.

Ultimately, what each of the four GOP candidates failed to do was to provide a coherent explanation of how they would assure adequate and sustainable funding for core public services so that the nonprofit sector can be freed to do what it does best: supplement and push the public sector in an innovative way.