Pushed by animal-rights activists, the ordinance was designed to ban circuses from performing in the county. Blue and other legislators said they have seen no research to indicate that such a ban would reduce drunken driving. Reported in The Charlotte Observer . When you have this number of children performing below grade level, alarm bells should go off. The committe was hearing testimony on a bill to study the racial gap in educational achievement and create a pilot program to try to close the gap.
Hunt spends like a drunk despite the state budget shortage.
Now drug expenses are growing by leaps and bounds. That would necessitate increasing premiums by 53.5 percent, he said. This elicited objections from a spokesman for the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. There are ways to save in excess of the amount they're saying by drug utilization reviews, pre authorizations of prescriptions, and the increased use of generics. Walker urged legislators to eschew coverage of drugs for such things as wrinkles, hair growth, obesity, and impotence, saying they weren't medical afflictions for the most part.