COUNTY NC NEWS

NC NEWS -- SAFEbuilt, one of the nation's leading contract providers of building department services for public agencies, is adding an office in Shallotte, North Carolina. SAFEbuilt provides full-service building department services, building code plan reviews, complete project support and building code inspections for cities, towns, counties and state agencies...

NC NEWS -- The impending release of seven former death row inmates should come as no surprise. As expected, a total of twenty North Carolina Department of Corrections inmates sentenced to life in prison will be released on October 29, 2009. Furthermore, Governor Perdue should not be appalled at the expected state Supreme Court ruling. Especially, when she was aware of this impending outcome when she signed the NC Racial Justice Act...

NC NEWS -- Founder and CEO of the Monaghan Group, Beth Monaghan, built her business from the ground up. Now, after thirteen years on the road to success, Beth shares why her company works...

NC NEWS -- North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and his counterparts in National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) have offered the federal government a new proposal to help struggling dairy, pork and poultry farmers. The NASDA has proposed yet another electronic benefits transfer (ETB) card to purchase pork and dairy products. However, adding an additional EBT Card will increase both state and federal SNAP adminisrtative expenditures...

NC NEWS -- The NC Board of Community Colleges has changed its policy to allow illegal aliens to attend its degree programs. However students would be required to pay out-of-state tuition. In adopting this policy the Board ignored and defied the people of NC and Governor Perdue. Polling has consistently indicated a large majority in this state reject educational benefits to illegal aliens. Governor Perdue expressed her opposition as recently as last week...

NC NEWS -- Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator North Carolina, has selected Ken Tutterow as a "2009 Angel in Adoption" for his outstanding advocacy of adoption and foster care issues. After nearly 30 years of unselfish contribution, Tutterow is being honored for his service to children in need of families through his work with Children's Home Society of North Carolina...

MECKLENBURG COUNTY NC NEWS -- The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Violent Criminal Apprehension Team arrests two violent fugitives within hours of receiving information of there whereabouts in Charlotte. Both fugitives were wanted for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. Both committed crimes out of state, but both were hiding in North Carolina...

NC NEWS -- Governor Beverly Perdue has signed Senate Bill 461, the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. However racial equality is not achieved by allowing convicted murders sentenced to capital punishment live, setting quotas, nor creating laws limiting convictions for crimes due to race...

NC NEWS -- Breaking her promises to the people and members of the Democratic Party, Governor Beverly Perdue signed the North Carolina's $19 billion state budget into law Friday quietly without posting the action to the North Carolina State Website. Maybe Governor Perdue thought her signing of the State budget was not as newsworthy as her signing of House Bill 1481 awarding $950,000 in Green Business Fund Grants, which she did publicize on the same day???

WESTERN NC NEWS -- Five busted for their involvement in a Dial-a-Dealer drug trafficking operation conducted in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties. junkies could call a telephone number and have their drugs delivered...

NC NEWS -- North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue and an entourage of North Carolina health leaders attended President Barrack Obama's Town Hall meeting in Raleigh in order to promote a government administered universal healthcare system, despite the fact that most NC voters are against this type of plan. Furthermore, the governor may be inflating the number of uninsured...

NC NEWS -- According to the NC Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry, on March 28, 2007, Robert Lance Randall was convicted of a sex offense in the first degree against a child under the age of thirteen. Sentenced to 48 years and 9-month imprisonment, Randall only served less than 18 months and was released into the community of Durham County. Now, Randall has failed to register as a sex offender and is a fugitive pending jail. Therefore, Operation FreeBird is naming fugitive Robert Lance Randall North Carolina's most wanted sex offender... The catch and release policy continues!

NC NEWS -- North Carolina voters say that health care costs are their main concern and they are not willing to pay higher taxes or trust a government run insurance plan. However, the President and Congress are moving to overhaul of the nation's health care system, even though it appears the administration's demand for higher taxes for to provide universal healthcare coverage is not widely supported by voters in North Carolina...