A local restaurant in Morrisville is allowing TSA workers to eat for free during the shutdown. The Thai/Lao restaurant, Yin Dee, is only about 5 minutes from the RDU airport. The owners are allowing TSA workers who present their badge to eat a meal up to $8 for free. The owner, Patti Graham, says most meals […]
Congress on Friday overwhelmingly approved 'a sweeping, year-end fiscal package.'
A state-run program that gets federal dollars to ensure proper nutrition for pregnant women and their young children won’t issue any vouchers beyond those already given out for October. Officials say the federal government shutdown is the reason that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children stopped issuing vouchers Tuesday. About 80 […]
As you may have heard, some North Carolina congressional lawmakers have chosen to reject their paychecks during the government shutdown. But not GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers. And she offers an explanation as to why. “The thing of it is, I need my paycheck. That is the bottom line,” Ellmers told WTVD, the Raleigh ABC station […]
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is set to testify at a Senate committee hearing Tuesday as the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service faces a possible default. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing is called “U.S. Postal Service In Crisis: Proposals to Prevent a Postal Shutdown.” The Postal Service does not have the money […]
