No direct budget talks are taking place yet in the General Assembly, but there are efforts to pave the way so that when negotiations do begin, there is less “clutter” on the road to a budget. Anticipating the House’s resistance to a plan to redistribute sales tax that was inserted into the Senate version of […]
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Counties, including Dare, that would be economically devastated by the state Senate’s plan to change the way the state distributes the local option sales tax stepped up their opposition this week with news conferences, web postings, and e-mail alerts. As the week wore on, the Senate blinked, but it refused to totally ditch the redistribution […]
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Gov. Pat McCrory today announced the appointment of Nick Tennyson as the new Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Tennyson has served as Chief Deputy Secretary since March 2013, and succeeds Tony Tata, who resigned last week. “Nick Tennyson is the perfect choice to continue the momentum we have made in North […]
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Federal regulators are taking the unusual step of providing a 30-day public review and comment period before acting on applications related to proposed seismic surveys for oil and natural gas off the Atlantic coast. A decision on whether to issue the permits could come by the end of the year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
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It’s official — sea turtle nesting on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore has set a record and the nests keep on coming. According to today’s resources management report, 269 sea turtles have nested on the seashore — 15 more than the record 254 set in 2013. And Britta Muiznieks, wildlife biologist and research coordinator for […]
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At a news conference on Monday, Dare County leaders continued their assault on the North Carolina Senate’s plan to change the way sales tax is redistributed to the state’s counties. The plan, originally introduced as a bill last winter, lingered in a committee for months and then suddenly found its way into the Senate’s budget […]
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The National Hurricane Center has increased the odds to a 40 percent chance that an area of low pressure near Little River Inlet, North Carolina, could become a tropical storm later today. “While upper-level winds are at best marginally conducive, there is some potential for a tropical cyclone to form this afternoon or tonight as […]
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Far and away the most notable astronomical event of July was the New Horizons fly-by of Pluto on the 14th. This was the first reconnaissance of Pluto, and the 10-year wait from launch to rendezvous has proven worthwhile. The New Horizons has discovered a hazy world of flowing ice on Pluto. If you haven’t visited […]
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Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site in Rodanthe was the topic of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, Aug.2. The guests for the interview were John Griffin and Warren Wrenn, president and secretary respectively of the non-profit Chicamacomico Historical Association, owner of the station, who talk about restoration work on the site. […]
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