Prisons offer up inmates as cheap laborers
By Claire Williams | April 2During the day, Jimmy “Moe” Penny prepared dishes at K&W Cafeteria in a neatly pressed cook’s apron.
During the day, Jimmy “Moe” Penny prepared dishes at K&W Cafeteria in a neatly pressed cook’s apron.
Simon Lee was relaxing on a bench outside Chapel Hill High School’s library. He says he wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary — he was gossiping, joking with friends before his free period. Nothing he should have been disciplined for.
The debt Carolina Dining Services has sitting on its books is unusual for a University of its size, but that hasn’t stopped administrators from crafting plans to further renovate Lenoir Dining Hall.
Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon resigned after being arrested Wednesday on public corruption charges, allegedly accepting more than $48,000 from undercover FBI agents.
Noren Everts, who will receive an annual salary of $285,00reporter’s notes / see packet0, will assume the office of chancellor July 1. She will be ASU’s first female chancellor and one of five currently in the UNC system.
N.C. candidates are posturing for campaign season as the filing deadline for the 2014 midterm elections draws to a close Friday at noon.
The day he was arrested in an act of civil disobedience, Charles van der Horst overslept until 4 p.m. On Saturday, van der Horst will speak at the Historic Thousands on Jones Street march on Raleigh. He hopes he doesn’t miss his alarm this time.
The N.C. Association of Educators urged teachers Wednesday to protest a law that will trade tenure for a pay raise.
Sexual assault on campus has been the subject of scandals at UNC and other universities in recent years — and on Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced a task force to tackle the national issue head-on.
RALEIGH — President Barack Obama told hundreds at N.C. State University Wednesday that 2014 would be a year of action — and one of the first steps will be to headquarter a high-tech manufacturing hub on NCSU’s campus.