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Licensure’s safety and quality benefits remain elusive
View in your browser. Late last year an audit (pdf file) of the State Board of Opticians determined that the board "will lack adequate funds to continue operating within the…
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Jim Black: The Speaker Strikes Back
Oh, my. We wondered what Jim Black was up to. Never imagined it was this crock. Although in retrospect in makes an odd kinda sense. Jim Black spent an entire…
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Fighting the war against bad backs
Wonkette riffs on the Black news: The sinister chiropractors? aims were similarly modest, requesting only that North Carolina law set their insurance co-pays to be equal to those of real…
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Another of Black’s associates bites the dust
Optometrist M. Scott Edwards pleads guilty to felony obstruction of justice.
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Court rules against House Speaker
A Superior Court Judge says Jim Black’s campaign should forfeit $6,800 in contributions from optometrists. You’ll find some of the court’s reasoning here and here.
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Oh, say can you see …
… that the N.C. Senate has pulled the trigger on its bill to ditch House-backed mandatory eye exams for incoming school kids.
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Optometrists’ group referred to D.A.
The N.C. elections board has voted to refer the N.C. Optometric Society’s political action committee to the Wake County District Attorney for possible criminal investigation.
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Black to forfeit more funds
N.C. House Speaker Jim Black’s campaign will forfeit $6,800 in illegal excess contributions from optometrists in 2002, based on a unanimous vote from the state elections board.
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Leake, Wallace quibble over contributions
The chairman of the state elections board questions the theory of House Speaker Jim Black’s lawyer about campaign contributions from optometrists. Black’s attorney — John Wallace — says the evidence…
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Don’t look now …
but a judge has blocked the new eye exam law until 2007. The law’s sponsor says he’s “comfortable” with the injunction.
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Black Eye Scam Poked
A Wake County judge has sided with the N.C. School Boards Association and against Speaker Jim Black and his optometrist pals in shelving mandatory eye exams for rising kindergartners. The…
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Eye exam lawsuit
On the AP wire: A father has filed a lawsuit contending that a new law requiring eye exams is unconstitutional because it prevents his child from attending public school for…