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State budget backs efforts to restore oysters
North Carolina is about to throw big bucks at the humble oyster, long the poster child of what's wrong with the coast, to try to boost stocks of the depleted bivalve.The state budget passed by legislators includes $4.3 million for a research hatchery at the University of North Carolina Wilmington,
StarNewsOnline.com – Jul 14, 2008 02:53 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Wilmington
North Carolina is about to throw big bucks at the humble oyster, long the poster child of what's wrong with the coast, to try to boost stocks of the depleted bivalve.The state budget passed by legislators includes $4.3 million for a research hatchery at the University of North Carolina Wilmington,
StarNewsOnline.com – Jul 14, 2008 02:53 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Wilmington
Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting this week to discuss plans for an enrichment plant on the Cape Fear River.The meeting is scheduled for July 17 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.The commission is reviewing the proposed General Electric-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment Plant. Members are expected to discuss safety and environmental issues and answer questions from the public.General Electric-Hitachi applied for the license to build the plant in April. If approved, it would enrich uranium to fuel nuclear power plants.
WNCT.com – Jul 13, 2008 08:01 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Greenville-New Bern-Washington
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting this week to discuss plans for an enrichment plant on the Cape Fear River.The meeting is scheduled for July 17 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.The commission is reviewing the proposed General Electric-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment Plant. Members are expected to discuss safety and environmental issues and answer questions from the public.General Electric-Hitachi applied for the license to build the plant in April. If approved, it would enrich uranium to fuel nuclear power plants.
WNCT.com – Jul 13, 2008 08:01 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Greenville-New Bern-Washington
UNC student reports strong-arm robberyUniversity of North Carolina police urged students to take precautions after a male student was injured in a robbery on north campus in Chapel Hill.
WRAL.com – Jul 12, 2008 2:56 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Raleigh-Durham
UNC Police Warn Community After On Campus Robbery
CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Public Safety is warning the campus community of a robbery that took place on north campus just before 2 a.m. Saturday.
WNCN - NBC 17 – Jul 12, 2008 1:56 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Public Safety is warning the campus community of a robbery that took place on north campus just before 2 a.m. Saturday.
WNCN - NBC 17 – Jul 12, 2008 1:56 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Raleigh-Durham
Test alarm for the UNCW warning siren system
The University of North Carolina Wilmington has installed the Seahawk Warning Siren System as part of its safety efforts. A full volume test of the system will take place at noon on Monday, July 14.
WECT TV6 – Jul 11, 2008 4:07 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Wilmington
The University of North Carolina Wilmington has installed the Seahawk Warning Siren System as part of its safety efforts. A full volume test of the system will take place at noon on Monday, July 14.
WECT TV6 – Jul 11, 2008 4:07 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Wilmington
As of Aug. 1, it's UNC School of the Arts
The state legislature agreed Thursday to change the name of the N.C. School of the Arts to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The News & Observer – Jul 11, 2008 05:30 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Raleigh-Durham
The state legislature agreed Thursday to change the name of the N.C. School of the Arts to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The News & Observer – Jul 11, 2008 05:30 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Raleigh-Durham
UNCW keeps landlines for safety reasons
Some college dorm rooms are getting rid of landline telephones, but that's not the case at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
WECT TV6 – Jul 10, 2008 8:25 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Wilmington
Some college dorm rooms are getting rid of landline telephones, but that's not the case at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
WECT TV6 – Jul 10, 2008 8:25 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Wilmington
Legislature changes name of N.C. Schools of the Arts
The state legislature agreed to change the name of the N.C. School of the Arts to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The News & Observer – Jul 10, 2008 4:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Raleigh-Durham
The state legislature agreed to change the name of the N.C. School of the Arts to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The News & Observer – Jul 10, 2008 4:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Raleigh-Durham
Conservative stalwart recalled as caring man
Jesse Helms was laid to rest Tuesday in a simple, dignified ceremony that emphasized the man more than the conservative force who became both a beloved and despised household name in American politics. A delegation from Washington – including Vice President Dick Cheney and Cindy McCain, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain – was among those who crowded into Hayes Barton Baptist Church to pay tribute to the former five-term senator. Most of the service focused on Helms as a kindly patriarch of his family and his Senate staff and colleagues rather than on the conservative figure who was one of the most feared men in Washington. Senators, former aides and family members talked about the Helms who was a master of constituent services, who was a workaholic, who encouraged young people and who was willing to take unpopular stands. “Over the years, anybody who passed by his office would remember him as one of the kindest people they ever knew,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in a eulogy. “No matter who you were, he always had a gentle word and a kind smile.” The mood of the estimated 900 people in the central Raleigh church was subdued, but not somber. Helms had been out of office for more than five years, and had been in declining health. For many graying Helms supporters and staffers, it was a chance to reminisce about old political battles. The congregation sang such favorite hymns as “Amazing Grace” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” Crisp Highway Patrolmen were bodyguards to the flag-draped coffin, a portrait of Helms sitting on an easel nearby. After the funeral service, Helms was interred in Oakwood Cemetery. The service lacked the pomp of some of the larger recent political funerals, including those of Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina or Terry Sanford, a former N.C. governor and senator. Cheney quietly slipped in and out of the service. The appearance of Cindy McCain, accompanied by Republican Sen. Richard Burr, attracted a lot of attention. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is not a favorite of many Helms-style conservatives. The front rows of the church were crowded with more than a dozen senators, including Republicans Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah. There were also former senators such as Bob Dole of Kansas, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Don Nickles of Oklahoma. Democrats were among the mourners, including former Senate colleagues Joe Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut. “One of the things people fail to realize was how well Sen. Helms was respected in the Senate and on a personal level,” said Tom Boney, a longtime staffer. “They could disagree. There was a certain degree of civility, contrary to the perception that Sen. Helms is often at odds on every issue.” But the man who last represented North Carolina alongside Helms, Democrat John Edwards, was a no-show. The two had said uncomplimentary things about each other in recent years. Also crowding the sanctuary were dozens of men and women who once were idealistic young aides to Helms and now are pushing middle age. Former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton, in a eulogy, read from a memo taken during one of Helms' first staff meetings in 1973. “He wants no bowing and scraping,” the staffer wrote. “He's just a country boy from Union County.” Mourners contrasted Helms with the image that often appeared in newspaper cartoons and editorials. “I would never have worked for the man I read about in the editorial pages,” said Broughton, now a lobbyist for the law firm, Womble Carlyle. There were also Helms' comrades in arms – the movement conservatives who helped make North Carolina a two-party state and who helped engineer the Republican resurgence in national politics that led to the election of President Reagan and the two Bushes. Those included Tom Ellis, the Raleigh lawyer who was Helms' political alter ego, and Charlie Black, the Washington lobbyist and strategist who engineered McCain's political comeback. Missing was Carter Wrenn, a longtime Helms strategist who broke with the senator. A murmur went through the crowd when Democratic Gov. Mike Easley walked into the sanctuary, accompanied by Erskine Bowles, the University of North Carolina president, who twice ran for the Senate as a Democrat. Despite the talk of Helms as a kindly, grandfatherly figure, he had a reputation as a political brawler who used racially loaded issues, sexual orientation and other wedge issues to attack his opponents. It was telling that none of the Democrats whom Helms defeated, including former Gov. Jim Hunt and former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, attended the service. Stelle Snyder of Monroe, who helped write Helms' 2005 memoir, said Helms would have enjoyed the funeral. “He was so proud of these people, of the Helms Senate family,” she said. “He would be shocked that this country boy from Monroe would have this kind of funeral (in) a church full of dignitaries.”
Charlotte.com – Jul 9, 2008 12:30 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Charlotte
Jesse Helms was laid to rest Tuesday in a simple, dignified ceremony that emphasized the man more than the conservative force who became both a beloved and despised household name in American politics. A delegation from Washington – including Vice President Dick Cheney and Cindy McCain, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain – was among those who crowded into Hayes Barton Baptist Church to pay tribute to the former five-term senator. Most of the service focused on Helms as a kindly patriarch of his family and his Senate staff and colleagues rather than on the conservative figure who was one of the most feared men in Washington. Senators, former aides and family members talked about the Helms who was a master of constituent services, who was a workaholic, who encouraged young people and who was willing to take unpopular stands. “Over the years, anybody who passed by his office would remember him as one of the kindest people they ever knew,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in a eulogy. “No matter who you were, he always had a gentle word and a kind smile.” The mood of the estimated 900 people in the central Raleigh church was subdued, but not somber. Helms had been out of office for more than five years, and had been in declining health. For many graying Helms supporters and staffers, it was a chance to reminisce about old political battles. The congregation sang such favorite hymns as “Amazing Grace” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” Crisp Highway Patrolmen were bodyguards to the flag-draped coffin, a portrait of Helms sitting on an easel nearby. After the funeral service, Helms was interred in Oakwood Cemetery. The service lacked the pomp of some of the larger recent political funerals, including those of Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina or Terry Sanford, a former N.C. governor and senator. Cheney quietly slipped in and out of the service. The appearance of Cindy McCain, accompanied by Republican Sen. Richard Burr, attracted a lot of attention. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is not a favorite of many Helms-style conservatives. The front rows of the church were crowded with more than a dozen senators, including Republicans Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah. There were also former senators such as Bob Dole of Kansas, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Don Nickles of Oklahoma. Democrats were among the mourners, including former Senate colleagues Joe Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut. “One of the things people fail to realize was how well Sen. Helms was respected in the Senate and on a personal level,” said Tom Boney, a longtime staffer. “They could disagree. There was a certain degree of civility, contrary to the perception that Sen. Helms is often at odds on every issue.” But the man who last represented North Carolina alongside Helms, Democrat John Edwards, was a no-show. The two had said uncomplimentary things about each other in recent years. Also crowding the sanctuary were dozens of men and women who once were idealistic young aides to Helms and now are pushing middle age. Former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton, in a eulogy, read from a memo taken during one of Helms' first staff meetings in 1973. “He wants no bowing and scraping,” the staffer wrote. “He's just a country boy from Union County.” Mourners contrasted Helms with the image that often appeared in newspaper cartoons and editorials. “I would never have worked for the man I read about in the editorial pages,” said Broughton, now a lobbyist for the law firm, Womble Carlyle. There were also Helms' comrades in arms – the movement conservatives who helped make North Carolina a two-party state and who helped engineer the Republican resurgence in national politics that led to the election of President Reagan and the two Bushes. Those included Tom Ellis, the Raleigh lawyer who was Helms' political alter ego, and Charlie Black, the Washington lobbyist and strategist who engineered McCain's political comeback. Missing was Carter Wrenn, a longtime Helms strategist who broke with the senator. A murmur went through the crowd when Democratic Gov. Mike Easley walked into the sanctuary, accompanied by Erskine Bowles, the University of North Carolina president, who twice ran for the Senate as a Democrat. Despite the talk of Helms as a kindly, grandfatherly figure, he had a reputation as a political brawler who used racially loaded issues, sexual orientation and other wedge issues to attack his opponents. It was telling that none of the Democrats whom Helms defeated, including former Gov. Jim Hunt and former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, attended the service. Stelle Snyder of Monroe, who helped write Helms' 2005 memoir, said Helms would have enjoyed the funeral. “He was so proud of these people, of the Helms Senate family,” she said. “He would be shocked that this country boy from Monroe would have this kind of funeral (in) a church full of dignitaries.”
Charlotte.com – Jul 9, 2008 12:30 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Charlotte
Some drugs increase risk of falling: UNC researchers
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
EurekAlert! – Jul 9, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Science
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
EurekAlert! – Jul 9, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Science