Call it a case of the blind leading the blind. North Carolina’s intrepid State Auditor, Beth Wood, has uncovered some shenanigans that would make even Robin Wright-Jones blush. An audit released by her office last week has determined that a state program designed to train blind people to operate snack bars in state and federal buildings has spent $29 […]
[youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/-DhuNKK7-9Y” width=”590″ modestbranding=”1″ autohide=”1″ fs=”1″ rel=”0″ hd=”1″] Governor Pat McCrory posted some festive news this afternoon by way of a YouTube video. According to data released Friday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, North Carolina saw the largest percentage drop in unemployment in the entire nation last month as employers added more than 16,000 new jobs across […]
An accident this morning in Transylvania County is the latest in a troubling number of incidents involving motorists who illegally pass stopped school buses. In a tragic coincidence, it was two years ago today that Hasani Wesley, an 11 year-old child from Forsyth County, was struck and killed by an automobile while he was waiting at […]
“North Carolina’s jobless rate fell to 6.7 percent in January from 8.8 percent a year earlier, a 2.1 percentage point drop that was the biggest among the 50 states…” — Bloomberg The latest jobs report from the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a continuation of an […]
From the North Carolina Department of Commerce: North Carolina’s December Employment Figures Released RALEIGH — The state’s seasonally adjusted December unemployment rate was 6.9 percent, decreasing 0.5 of a percentage point from November’s revised rate of 7.4 percent. The national rate decreased to 6.7 percent from November’s 7.0 percent. North Carolina’s December 2013 unemployment rate […]
From the North Carolina Department of Commerce: North Carolina’s November Employment Figures Released RALEIGH — The state’s seasonally adjusted November unemployment rate was 7.4 percent, decreasing 0.6 of a percentage point from October’s revised rate of 8.0 percent. The national rate decreased to 7.0 percent from October’s 7.3 percent. North Carolina’s November 2013 unemployment rate […]
This past June, a bipartisan group of more than one hundred members of the General Assembly joined Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, Richard Childress (of Richard Childress Racing and owner of Childress Vineyards), Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation President Jeff Crane, Governor Pat McCrory and many other distinguished supporters of our sportsmen’s community at the home […]