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Eight lawmakers headed to Singapore

bniolet — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:30:19 -0500

Eight legislators and a handful of state education officials are headed to Singapore in about a week to see what that country does right in math and science education.

The trip will be the second delegation to Singapore in the ten years that the Public School Forum of North Carolina and UNC’s Center for International Understanding have been sending lawmakers and policy shapers to look at other country’s schools, Mark Johnson reports.

Truax heads to Z. Smith Reynolds

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:21:44 -0500

Hawley Truax is heading to the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

The senior policy adviser to Gov. Mike Easley will now be working for the Winston-Salem-based nonprofit, which focuses on social justice, environmental and community projects.

Lambeth ready to reform campaign finance

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:12:58 -0500

Tom Lambeth remembers the bad-old days of campaign finance.

As chief of staff to Rep. Richardson Preyer in the 1970s, he recalls the days before post-Watergate reforms when lobbyists would hand cash-filled envelopes to Congressmen.

Donnan: More labor for commissioner

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:34:00 -0500

Mary Fant Donnan thinks the labor commissioner should work more.

A former policy and research director under Labor Commissioner Harry Payne, she told Dome that Commissioner Cherie Berry could be doing more for workers around the state.

Luger named UNC counsel

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:13:33 -0500

The UNC system has a new top lawyer: Laura Bernstein Luger, who has been an attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice of Durham.

Luger was announced today as vice president for legal affairs and general counsel of the University of North Carolina system. She starts the job Feb. 1 at an annual salary of $225,000, Jane Stancill reports.

Vagt to oversee Heinz Endowments

bkrueger — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:34:26 -0500

Former Davidson College President Robert F. Vagt will become president of The Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh in mid-January, the foundation announced today.

Vagt, 60, will lead the distribution of more than $80 million annually from the foundation, which began in 1941 as the Howard Heinz Endowment, reports Jane Stancill.

UNC loses Winner

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:13:47 -0400

Leslie Winner will head the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

UNC President Erskine Bowles announced today that the foundation had "stolen" the vice president and general counsel for the UNC system, Jane Stancill reports.