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Following the Money |
| In what may have been a well staged “dog-and-pony show,” the NC House of Representative Appropriations Committees held a well publicized public meeting on Monday, September 24, 2010, at the McKinnon Center, in Raleigh, NC. Where representatives of various groups spoke for two minutes before a panel of Appropriations Committee chairpersons. Issues raised by speakers at the Monday Public Hearing, may have been pitched before a more receptive audience if they had lobbied with Action Greensboro on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, allowing them to speak and luncheon with elected officials and staff members, as published in the media. In the 2009 appropriations year, when an estimated 5,000+ teachers across the state lost their jobs, the General Assembly appropriated more than $3,000,000 to support Master and Ph.D. degree programs in Nanoscience, a new 100,000 Sq. Ft. Classroom & Research Building, and 8 million dollars for equipment at Gateway when no such degree programs existed. |
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