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 Cong. Bob
Etheridge (D-2nd) (right) said he would not run for
the U.S. Senate held by Sen. Jesse Helms in 2002 despite
encouragement from many Democrats in Washington. "The
polls show that I'd have a good chance to win, but polls can't
really measure what you feel in your heart," Etheridge
said. "I like the job I'm doing, I like the people I work
with, and I like the people I represent. It's kind of hard to
give up a job you enjoy and you feel like you make a
difference." Republican Sen. Jesse Helms has said
he'll announce by September whether he'll seek a sixth term.
Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles ruled
out a campaign in May. Former Gov. Jim Hunt and state
Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight (D-Dare) also
have said they're not interested in the Senate race. State
Sen. Eric Reeves (D-Wake) has said he will run.
Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and state Rep. Dan
Blue (D-Wake) also have expressed interest.
Gov. Mike Easley
appointed Dr. Stuart Fountain of Greensboro and Norma
Turnage of Rocky Mount, and reappointed George Battle
III of Charlotte and Sandra Hayes of Waynesville,
to serve on the North Carolina State Board of Community
Colleges. Fountain is the president of the private dentist
practice of Fountain, Olmstead, Torney, and Mohorn. Turnage is
the president of Josh Bulluck's BBQ Inc. Previously, she
taught in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Public Schools
Administration. Battle is an attorney with Carolinas
HealthCare System of Charlotte. Hayes
has worked as a print production consultant since 1995. From
1985-1995, she was director of printing services for UNC
Asheville.
Raymond W.
Goodman Jr., chairman of the state Employment Security
Commission, said he will retire effectively immediately to
allow him more time to fighting the Parkinson’s Disease that
he has battled in recent years. “On the advice of my
doctors, I decided a couple of weeks ago that it was not in
the best interest of this agency, my family and my personal
well-being to continue working as I have,” Goodman said in a
June 21 letter to friends.
Tommy Stevens, director of the state Division of Water Quality
since 1999, will retire effective Aug. 1, after 30 years with
the state. As water quality director, Stevens has overseen
regulatory programs involving surface waters and groundwater
protection.
State Sen. David Hoyle (D-Gaston), who led a 1994 effort to
rewrite the state’s Open Meetings law, received the
inaugural Friend of Freedom Award given by Freedom
Communications. The award was presented to Hoyle during a
meeting of the newspaper chain's executives in Asheville.
Hoyle also was cited for helping defeat a 1995 bill that would
have closed public access to accident records and required the
media to promise not to use them for commercial purposes; and
for sponsoring a shield law for reporters that was passed in
1999.
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