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  • Strategy Forgets to Mention its Main Points

    Posted in Budget & Taxes, Healthcare by Christine DiPietro on December 17, 2009

    A communication strategy aimed to educate the populous on how to avoid spreading H1N1 influenza cost taxpayers over $500,000. The means: radio and television advertisements created by the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) featuring Gov. Bev Perdue. The message: remember to cough into your sleeves.

  • Honors-Level Physical Education

    Posted in Bad Bill of the Week by Christine DiPietro on April 24, 2009

    This week’s Bad Bill of the Week is HB 901. Proposed by Reps. Verla Insko (D-Orange) and Jean Farmer-Butterfield (D-Edgecombe), the bill proposes “to develop or identify academically rigorous honors-level courses in health and physical education.” In essence, the legislation creates honors gym classes for high school students.

  • Bad Bill Of the Week: 4/10/2009

    Posted in Bad Bill of the Week by Christine DiPietro on April 10, 2009

    This week’s “Bad Bill of the Week” could easily be renamed after the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine. Rep. Annie Mobley (D-Bertie) introduced legislation (HB 1348) to “establish the joint legislative study committee on the regulation of beauty pageants for youth under thirteen years of age.”