CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.  – President Barack Obama’s speech at Camp Lejeune is expected to be the announcement of a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
The White House announced that Obama would be speaking Friday at 11:45 a.m. at Camp Lejeune, but didn’t specify what he would speak about. But Vice President Joe Biden, on NBC’s [...]

WASHINGTON  – A substantial number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say.
That pacing suggests that although Obama’s promised withdrawal [...]

By Kim Genardo
NBC17
RALEIGH, N.C. — State agencies continue to slash budgets and it could have an impact on keeping our highways clean.
The community work crew program could get eliminated to help the Department Of Correction meet its 2009-11 budget cuts.
“We’ll make every effort to try and keep those community work crews in place because they [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.  – Budget cuts confronting state politicians could inhibit the ability of the twice-a-year furniture trade show in High Point to promote itself to furniture industry insiders.
North Carolina is considering eliminating the nearly $900,000 the state contributes toward marketing the High Point Market each year. The state gave the event an extra $500,000 for [...]

WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama’s prescription for the nation’s ailing health care system comes with Medicare cuts and tax hikes – usually poison pills that doom any overhaul effort in Congress.
But the budget Obama proposed Thursday is not a finished blueprint for overhauling health care. Rather it’s the opening bid in a tough negotiation. Anybody [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) will deliver the weekly Republican radio address on Saturday, February 28, 2009. Senator Burr will speak on the lack of fiscal restraint in Washington and the impact it is having on American families.
Audio and video of his address will be available on his website on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue and U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-N.C.) will join President Obama on Friday morning for his visit to Camp Lejeune.
The President will speak about his plan to withdraw troops from Iraq.
In a release Thursday, Hagan said she supports a responsible withdrawal of troops from Iraq that will [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina voters give the public schools system in the state a “C” grade when asked to evaluate the performance of public schools according to a new poll released today by the Civitas Institute.
According to the live caller poll of 600 voters in North Carolina, 42 percent of voters gave a “C” [...]

Winston-Salem Journal
This is no time for the taxpayers of North Carolina to be subsidizing tuition for out-of-state student-athletes on UNC campuses.
Not with drastic budget cuts being made across the spectrum of state services. Not with 7-percent budget cuts likely on our university campuses, cuts that will lead to larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and [...]