May 26, 2000 * Issue No. 3 * The 2000 Short Session
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 Seen
at the Legislative Reception:
NCCBI members Doug Gaylon of Guilford
Mills, Greensboro, and Larry Goode of
N.C. State University, Raleigh, with
Executive Committee member Frank Emory of
Robinson, Bradshaw and Hinson in
Charlotte at the recent NCCBI Legislative
Conference. We snapped several pictures
at the reception. See the photo
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Executive
News Summary
 Hundreds of
legislators, educators and other
officials applaud as Gov. Jim Hunt signs
the higher education bonds bill, the
final step necessary for a fall
referendum on issuing $3.1 billion in
bonds for capital improvements at the UNC
System campuses and the 59 community
colleges. NCCBI's Phil Kirk, also
speaking as chairman of the State Board
of Education, tells the rally on the
Capitol grounds that NCCBI will lead an
aggressive grassroots pro-bonds campaign
leading up to the November referendum.
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Complete story
A House committee is
fighting mad with Uncle Sam over a new
federal mandate that says North Carolina
will lose $14 million a year in federal
highway money if it doesn't ban open beer
cans and other containers of alcohol --
even if it's by a back-seat passenger in
a car driven by someone who hasn't been
drinking. An unlikely opponent of the
federal mandate is liberal Democrat Rep.
Dan Blue of Raleigh, who warns the law
will make it illegal for someone to be
the designated driver in a group of
friends coming home from the party.
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State government news
briefs
North Carolina's
congressional delegation splits 4-8
against the China trade bill -- not along
the political divide but along
urban-rural lines. Democrats David Price
and Bob Etheridge (the Triangle) side
with Republicans Cass Ballenger (Hickory)
and Sue Myrick (Charlotte) for the trade
bill. Their big-city districts aren't in
danger of losing textile and other
manufacturing jobs to Chinese labor.
That's the concern of the five
Republicans and three Democrats who went
with the losing side in the U.S. House's
237-197 passage of permanent normal trade
relations with China. When was the last
time Democrats Eva Clayton and Mel Watt
were in agreement with Republicans Howard
Coble, Robin Hayes, Richard Burr and
Charles Taylor?
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