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Gov. Beverly Perdue has given a preview of her budget.

Speaking at an economic roundtable at UNC-Asheville this morning, Perdue promised new tax breaks for businesses and more spending for worker training, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports.

Among the tax breaks:

* Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit from 5 to 6.5 percent. 

* Allowing small businesses to exempt some profits from taxes.

* Excluding initial stock investments in some startups from capital gains.

She also pledged to spend $50 million on sewer and water projects, $17 million on workforce preparedness, $7 million on "Main Street" projects in small towns, $5 million on green businesses and $2 million to a small business grant program. 

Perdue will formally present her budget Tuesday. 

Asheville reporter Jordan Schrader writes on his Capital Letters blog that Perdue did not say anything about "how she'll pay for it."

Gov. Beverly Perdue is in Asheville today and tomorrow.

Perdue is holding an economic roundtable at UNC-Asheville this morning and speaking to the Council of Independent Business Owners and touring a General Electric plant this afternoon.

On Friday, she'll tour the Bent Creek Institute biotechnology facility on the campus of the North Carolina Arboretum.

The trip is part of Perdue's ongoing efforts to be more visible throughout the state.

Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue plans to have three offices.

Spokesman David Kochman said that Perdue will keep the two offices in New Bern and Asheville and add a third in Charlotte, in addition to the governor's main office in Raleigh.

Each of the offices will be staffed by a representative whose job it will be to serve as a link between the governor's office and the local government.

"The things they might do would be representing the governor at local events and regional meetings, so they can report back about the matters being discussed," he said.

They will also help with local constituent service and help Perdue prepare for a local visit.

Kochman said that Perdue's pledge to open a Charlotte office came long before she faced Republican Pat McCrory in the November campaign. 

Voters who like negative ads can still get their fill on YouTube.

While Beverly Perdue has stopped airing her ads attacking Richard Moore and removed them from her YouTube channel, they are still available on Under the Dome's channel.

You can see an ad attacking Moore's ties to a private insurance firm here, an ad attacking him for having Wall Street donors here, an ad about his handling of the state pension fund here, and a response ad to his tuition increase ad here.

A YouTube-only ad attacking Moore's ties to New York City is not available, however.

Perdue told N&O reporter Ben Niolet two weeks ago that she was considering pulling negative ads off the air. At a press conference this morning, she said she was influenced by a recent campaign stop.

During a three-hour break, she said she and her husband, Bob, saw a number of negative ads on the TV in their Asheville hotel room.

Afterward, she met with a local elected official who also complained about the negativity, she said.