Archive - Dec 8, 2010 - News Article
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By Jordan-Ashley Baker
North Carolina policy makers could be forced to close a multibillion-dollar gap in the state budget, passing on their shortfalls to county governments.
The state faces a $3.5 billion shortfall for fiscal year 2011-12 because of the continually weak economy, the end of federal aid and the expiration of the temporary tax package, said Alexandra Forter Sirota, of the N.C. Tax and Budget Center.
The final state general fund budget for FY 2010-11 was about $18.9 billion.
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By Jordan-Ashley Baker
The city of Claremont has a population of about 1,100 people.
At the end of the Pierre Foods expansion, the facility in Claremont will employ more than 1,200 people. This means that Pierre Foods could use every city resident to operate its facility on East Main Street.
Pierre Foods employs 717 people currently, and an ongoing expansion project will bring an additional 500 jobs in two years.
In 102 minutes, Carl Cline's life changed forever.
Cline, 67, of Newton, experienced a life-threatening heart attack. If it was not for his emergency phone call, he might not have survived.
When Cline started to feel pain, he called 9-1-1 and an ambulance was at his house in 2.5 minutes.
"It was like clock work," Cline said, of the EMS responders who assisted his medical condition. "I had (the heart attack) at the 87th minute."
