Tag search result for: Virginia

Senator Who?

bkrueger — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:05:12 -0400

North Carolina voters apparently would have difficulty picking their two senators in Washington out of a line-up.

That's the conclusion of the folks over at Public Policy Polling, who say that their polling in 14 different states indicates that North Carolina voters are less familiar with their senators than voters in other states.

N.C. ranks 45th in cigarette tax

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:24:58 -0400

North Carolina has the sixth-lowest cigarette tax.

According to research by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an anti-smoking advocacy group, only five states have lower cigarette taxes: Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri and South Carolina.

Perdue pushes for broad, quick stimulus

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:43:15 -0500

Gov. Beverly Perdue pushed for a quick, broad stimulus package.

In a speech before the House Democratic caucus in Virginia today, Perdue argued for an economic stimulus bill to be passed with "as few restrictions as possible" and "without delay."

Perdue presses for stimulus in Va.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:46:17 -0500

Gov. Beverly Perdue is making her case for the stimulus.

Perdue flew to Williamsburg, Va., this morning on a state plane to participate in a panel of governors urging Congress to pass an economic stimulus package.

She has said that spending on infrastructure and other economic development projects will help reduce North Carolina's high unemployment rate.

The New South rising?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:15:14 -0500

A Florida professor has weighed in on the definition of the South.

In a piece in the St. Petersburg Times Sunday, English professor Diane Roberts quotes Chris Kromm, director of the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, on the litany of reasons people give for removing North Carolina from the South:

Oil drilling could start off Virginia

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:43:49 -0500

The federal government made its first move Thursday toward drilling off Virginia.

The U.S. Department of the Interior issued a call for public comments as it begins considering the environmental effects of offshore drilling.

That would be the first step toward opening 2.9 million acres of waters to leasing in 2011.

Guillory: Seaboard South is different

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:45:32 -0500

Ferrel Guillory says the "Seaboard South" is different.

The head of the Program on Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill says that Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida have moved away from the rest of the South in recent years.

Ownby: N.C. liberal for the South

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:02:51 -0500

A professor of Southern studies says North Carolina did not change overnight.

Ted Ownby of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi says that Tar Heels have long been more liberal than other Southerners.

The Shallow South?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:10:23 -0500

Has North Carolina seceded from the Confederacy?

The aftermath of last week's historic presidential election has led many national commentators to speculate that North Carolina and Virginia are no longer part of "the South."

The latest example comes from the New York Times today, which not-so subtly credits all those former New Yorkers moving to places like Cary for Barack Obama's wins here.

Obama's Georgia staff moves to N.C.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:39:11 -0400

Barack Obama moved some of his Georgia staff to North Carolina.

According to an article in Politico today, this state still remains among the second tier where the Democratic presidential candidate hopes to remain competitive, although he has given up on Georgia.