Comments on: Higher Education Budget Requests http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/04/23/higher-education-budget-requests/ Affecting NC public policy through informed, energetic and progressive conversations. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob Schofield http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/04/23/higher-education-budget-requests/#comment-8092 Rob Schofield Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:19:26 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/?p=1039#comment-8092 Thanks for the details, John. Bowles is obviously an effective spokesperson for UNC and he clearly makes all the legislators swoon. I'm sure most - if not all - of his requests are valid at some level. It's hard to imagine, however, that the G.A. would (or should) cough up a billion bucks in new outlays for the universities at a time when people are dying for lack of proper MHDDSA care and the criminal justice system can't even keep track of everyone on probation. Thanks for the details, John. Bowles is obviously an effective spokesperson for UNC and he clearly makes all the legislators swoon. I’m sure most – if not all – of his requests are valid at some level.

It’s hard to imagine, however, that the G.A. would (or should) cough up a billion bucks in new outlays for the universities at a time when people are dying for lack of proper MHDDSA care and the criminal justice system can’t even keep track of everyone on probation.

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