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A daily look at some of The News & Observer’s headlines on Aug. 25 in past years.
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In 2001, Democrats in the governor’s mansion and the legislature planned to raise taxes. Then-Gov. Mike Easley supported raising the sales tax by one cent and raising the personal income tax rate for the highest earners by a quarter of a percent. The Democratic-controlled General Assembly was set to debate the plan. Democrats opposed to the plan said a sales tax increase would put too much of a burden on the poor.
The tax plan was meant to resolve a budget impasse and raise $1 billion over two years. Supporters said it would offset declining revenue growth. Lawmakers from both parties expected an upcoming vote to be close. Instead, they agreed on a different plan that raised the sales tax 0.5%.
In 1980, the Raleigh City Council talked about the city manager, with the headline saying Lawrence Zachary Jr. was “praised, panned as council reviews work.”
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Among the reasons for council members to scrutinize the manager was the city being fined over a fish kill in the Neuse River and fire department promotion disputes.
A UNC professor of rural education declared North Carolina at the bottom of states in education and culture. Edgar W. Knight said “our schools will continue to lag so long as we have so many laggards as teachers and superintendents.” Knight himself was once the superintendent of Wake County.
He also said that there is not a single painting in the UNC library.
And after days of front page news questioning when Gov. A.W. McLean would return from three weeks of vacation in Wisconsin, The N&O heard back from the governor, via telegram, about a meeting of the State Board of Education that had been delayed in his absence. He said “that the text book matter was fully considered by Board of Education before I left Raleigh.” The board met without the governor, which McLean told The N&O they had done before as well, and sent a letter to publishers who had been selling textbooks to Tennessee for a cheaper price than North Carolina was paying.
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