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October 12, 2007
ASHEVILLE — North Carolina needs to do a better job of selling itself to attract
new businesses in an increasingly competitive global economy, state Treasurer Richard Moore told
entrepreneurs Thursday.
“But we need to stop talking about spurring entrepreneurs and get down to the brass tacks of
how to actually hold them, whether it’s a new restaurant
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October 11, 2007
RALEIGH -- The Web site for Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue's campaign for governor says
she "earned a Ph.D. in Education Administration."
Her 2004 Web site while running for re-election as lieutenant governor said her doctorate
was in "administration and education."
Perdue told a television interviewer in 2002: "It's what my Ph.D. is in: Aging and
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October 11, 2007
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been asked to investigate stock sales
made by Angelo R. Mozilo, chief executive of the mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, in the
months before its shares plummeted amid the deepening mortgage crisis.
In an Oct. 8 letter to the S.E.C. chairman, Christopher Cox, the state treasurer of North
Carolina, Richard H.
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October 10, 2007
Most of the discussion during North Carolina gubernatorial campaigns of the past
20 years has rightly focused on education. It would be hard to think of a more important issue for
the state's future – and its future generations.
So it's interesting to note that those who want to be governor in 2008 already have begun
staking out differences on an
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October 9, 2007
Given the state’s enormous transportation needs, the current political debate
regarding the Highway Trust Fund is most welcome.
Highway funding has become the first big issue of the 2008 gubernatorial campaign, with the
five major candidates debating a 1989 tax-revenue provision.
Four of the candidates essentially agree - although with
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October 5, 2007
N.C. Treasurer Richard Moore on Friday said an Ohio-based manufacturer has agreed to support
annual election of its board of directors after negotiations with his office.
Parker Hannifin Corp., a maker of motion and control technologies and systems, had previously
disregarded non-binding resolutions to make the change. Corporate governance advocates favor annual
elections
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