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Will this be on the exam?

lbonner — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:40:42 -0400

House Speaker Joe Hackney, an Orange County Democrat and UNC-Chapel Hill alum, will visit his old stomping grounds Monday to tell students how laws, policies and rules that govern the university are made.

Hackney and Roger Perry, immediate past chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, will talk to students enrolled in the course called Role of the University in American Life.

Legislature gettin' citified

markjohnson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:43:16 -0400

Wake County likely will gain two seats in the N.C. House of Representatives and a Senate seat after the next census in 2010, according to an analysis by UNC's Program on Public Life, with some help by bill drafting director Gerry Cohen.

Perdue talks efficiency at UNC

janestancill — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:00:56 -0400

Gov. Beverly Perdue praised UNC-Chapel Hill for taking steps to reduce its bureacracy and administrative spending.

The governor was the featured speaker today at UNC-CH's annual University Day ceremony, reports Eric Ferreri.

Duke Energy, UNC reach wind deal

bniolet — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:47:35 -0400

Duke Energy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have a contract under which the utility would build a mini-wind farm and the university would study it.

A recent UNC study suggested a test wind energy farm in Pamlico Sound, Lynn Bonner reports.

Roche questions spending

bkrueger — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:01:58 -0400

Frank Roche says he wants some answers about a program at UNC that has little to show for more than $7 million it has received to help deployed soldiers of the National Guard and Army Reserves.

Roche, a Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. David Price of Chapel Hill, issued a release today questioning the money spent by the Citizen Soldier Support Program. The program was created in 2004 when Price inserted $10 million for it in the federal budget.

Soldier program wastes federal money

bkrueger — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:41:27 -0400

A federally funded program at UNC-Chapel Hill was supposed to help deployed soldiers of the National Guard and Army Reserves.

Instead, the Citizen Soldier Support Program has produced reams of paperwork but few concrete results, according to an internal review.

Just not on game day

markjohnson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:55:17 -0400

The fast-growing web of academic connections between rivals N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill has prompted their respective trustees to ponder holding joint meetings twice a year.

Lawrence Davenport, chairman of the NCSU trustees, told his board Friday that he had called his counterpart at UNC-CH, Bob Winston, to broach the idea, and that Winston was receptive.

UNC bulks up - on staff

markjohnson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:03:24 -0400

This decade has been good for associate vice chancellors at UNC-Chapel Hill. Their numbers have nearly doubled, from 10 to 19, and the money paid to them has more than tripled, to a total of nearly $4million a year.

The university now admits that some of these people were in jobs that were not vital. They represent the rapid management growth in the 16-campus UNC system that has added tens of millions of dollars to annual payrolls.

$10.6 million worth of security

markjohnson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:00:58 -0400

The triangle region would receive more than $10.6 million in earmarked money from the spending subcommittee in Congress les by Chapel Hill Democratic Rep. David Price.

The House Committee on Appropriations passed the homeland security bill Friday. The earmarks are spending projects directed to home districts. The spending bill for th 2010 fiscal year must still pass the full House, and then goes to the Senate.

Carolina-Duke in Minnesota race

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:19:43 -0400

As in all things, the Minnesota Senate race came down to basketball today.

The lead attorneys for Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken arguing before the Minnesota Supreme Court today are from rival schools.