Publication: Raleigh News & Observer

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Wake County holding forum for superintendent finalists Tuesday at Memorial Auditorium

Wake County school leaders have announced the date, time and location for the public to meet the three finalists for schools superintendent.The forum will take place Tuesday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Memorial Auditorium at the Duke Energy Center for the ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Duke Energy Corporation, Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

G.K. Butterfield

Price, Butterfield to host workshop for small businesses

Congressmen David Price and G.K. Butterfield will join with representatives of several government agencies to host a “marketplace'' workshop to help small businesses identify contracting opportunities with federal, state and local governments.The day-long ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 12 hours ago]

Entities: G.K. Butterfield, David Price, Small Businesses

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Mary Matalin makes PETA video aimed at NC's ag-gag bill

Republican political pundit Mary Matalin has made a video for – are you ready? – PETA.“You may be wondering what a meat-eating conservative Republican like me is doing in a PETA video,” Matalin says in the three-minute piece.Well, yes, we are.People for ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 12 hours ago]

Entities: PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Mary Matalin, Whistle-Blower

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

AT&T Inc

Overture nets $8 million in funding

Overture, a Triangle technology survivor of the dot-com bust, has raised $8 million in its latest round of capitalization.The 200-employee company said the funding round includes an option to raise up to $11.7 million. Overture, which has raised more ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Overture Networks Inc, AT&T Inc, Broadband, Mergers & Acquisitions, India

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Mary Matalin sends video to Senate urging defeat of ag-gag bill

Mary Matalin, the Republican pundit and political consultant, has sent a video to senators in North Carolina in which she urges them to defeat the so-called ag-gag bill.The bill would criminalize the documentation of patterns of routine cruelty to animals ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Mary Matalin, Bill Haslam, State's Attorney

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Peacock hires Team McCrory for Charlotte mayor's race

Apparently Edwin Peacock thinks Jack Hawke, a veteran GOP strateigst, has a touch with Charlotte mayors.Peacock, a former Charlotte City Councilman, has hired Hawke to be his senior strategist in his campaign for Charlotte mayor. He is seeking to succeed ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Peacock, Pat McCrory, Bill Lee, Anthony Foxx

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Attorney General Cooper files suit against debt settlement firm

Attorney General Roy Cooper has ordered debt settlement firm World Law Group to stop collecting what his office says are illegal upfront fees.Cooper filed a lawsuit this week against Swift Rock Financial of Austin, Tex., which also operates as World Law ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Attorney General, Superior Court, Austin, courts

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

PowerSecure inks $4.3 million in acquisitions

PowerSecure International, the fast-growing Wake Forest energy services company, announced a series of acquisitions Thursday valued at $4.3 million.The 700-employee company said it bought the final 10 percent ownership stake from Southern Energy Management ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Powersecure International Inc, Acquisition, Infrastructure, Solar Panels

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Senate budget expands database reach, raises privacy concerns

A year ago, a little-noticed provision in the state budget initiated the creation of a computer database, to be overseen by the state controller, to be drawn from individual information of state residents collected by state agencies, Scott Mooneyham at ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Database, Sarah Preston, Social Security, American Civil Liberties Union

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Pintful: Beer fight in Washington jeopardizes tax break bills

A week ago, I wrote about the beer legislation in the North Carolina state legislature. The two bills advanced to the Senate before the crossover deadline and now await further action.The picture in Washington is a bit murkier. Get a look at the beer ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Deadline

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Senate passes $20.6 billion budget on to House

The state Senate passed its $20.6 billion budget along party lines, moving the plan on to the House for consideration. "This really is about the number one priority that you have for the state - to give a big tax cut to a few wealthy people," said Nesbitt, ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Berger not happy with McCrory's position on Dix

It’s nice that the governor and Raleigh’s mayor are getting all bipartisan over the Dix deal and all, but it still ain’t right.That’s the message from Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger on Thursday, following Gov. Pat McCrory’s and Mayor Nancy McFarlane’s ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Pat McCrory, Nancy McFarlane, Bev Perdue

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...Hise, though, said the database is about using information already at the state's fingertips to address issues that people want addressed. "We're allowing fraud to occur that we have the ability to be stopping" he said. The Department of Revenue did not immediately respond to requests for comments regarding this story

Senate budget expands database reach, raises privacy concerns [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 15 hours ago]

"I apologize for any discomfort caused any of you and would have preferred not to air our differences but was told to turn in my gavel and the letter during session to be read into the journal. I expect to still be a representative and will fight to have the voice of District 95 heard, I look forward to working with you as a legislator on equal footing. I m available for discussion and I do appreciate the good we have and will continue to accomplish but we need some fresh air also. Have a great day."

House GOP lawmaker says he wanted to settle dispute with Tillis quietly [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 17 hours ago]

Republicans will "cut taxes and put in back in taxpayers' pockets so they can plan where to spend it" he said

Senate passes $20.6 billion budget on to House [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 17 hours ago]

...Robert Brawley, House Speaker Thom Tillis blew off steam with a Tesla test drive. The verdict? "When you accelerate it, it was the same sort of feeling I got when I test drove a Mustang Boss back when I was probably 23 years old" Tillis said. "Just an amazing feeling."

Morning Memo: A new Dix deal, fallout from Brawley letter [Published Raleigh News & Observer - 21 hours ago]

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