Tag search result for: Libba Evans

Evans is back

bniolet — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:13:31 -0500

Libba Evans, who was on an extended leave for months as former Gov. Mike Easley's cultural resources secretary, has returned to the public eye.

Evans took at least six months off last year to tend to personal issues while her deputy ran the department. The Winston Salem Journal reports that Evans has been promoting her new company, which produces interactive versions of children's stories for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

Cultural deputy gets job from Easley

bniolet — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:35:29 -0500

On his last day at work, Gov. Mike Easley gave the acting head of the Department of Cultural Resources a new job.

Easley appointed Staci Meyer to the N.C. Industrial Commission. Meyer was the chief deputy and general counsel to the department who ran things when Secretary Libba Evans went on extended, unpaid leave.

Who on Easley's Cabinet might stay?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:54:37 -0500

What will happen to members of Gov. Mike Easley's Cabinet?

As the two-term governor prepares to leave office in January, at least six of his top appointees have already said they will do the same, while others may be hoping to stay under Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue.

Elected officials make more than appointees

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:11:03 -0500

Council of State members are paid more than Cabinet members.

Under 2008-09 budget, nine of the 10 statewide elected officials — including lieutenant governor, attorney general and state treasurer — are paid $123,198 a year. The governor is paid about 13 percent more, or $139,590.

The diversity question and Perdue's Cabinet

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:52:51 -0500

How diverse will Beverly Perdue's Cabinet be?

As the governor-elect makes her decisions about the top 10 appointments to her administration, many observers will be looking at its diversity.

What is the Iron Cabinet?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:45:20 -0500

Evans on leave since May

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:55:13 -0500

Libba Evans hasn't worked since May.

The secretary of the state Department of Cultural Resources took unpaid leave from her job to attend to personal business.

Still, she showed up at a Barack Obama rally in Greensboro in October.

Evans reimburses state for liquor

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:06:55 -0400

N.C. Cultural Resources Secretary Libba Evans reimbursed the state last week $465 for booze bills from the trip she took with North Carolina's first lady Mary Easley to Russia and Estonia earlier this year.

Evans was on leave during Russia trip

bniolet — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:02:58 -0400

Libba Evans, head of the state cultural agency, has been on unpaid leave since May 1 — which means she wasn't on the clock when she participated in a trip to Russia and Estonia.

Evans was a member of a five-person cultural exchange trip in May to Russia and Estonia that cost taxpayers more than $56,000. The delegation also included first lady Mary Easley.

Obama announces 50 Edwards supporters

bniolet — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:37:01 -0400

The Barack Obama campaign Wednesday released a list of 50 former North Carolina supporters of John Edwards who are backing the Illinois senator in the May 6th primary.

Rob Christensen reports that the list included Congressmen David Price, and G.K Butterfield, former state House Majoirty leader Phil Baddour of Goldsboro, attorney Wade Byrd of Fayetteville, former state Democratic party chairs Libba Evans and Wade Smith, former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye, and Jim Phillips, the chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.