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Richard Cook, Treasurer
Legislative
Assistant,
Cindy Garrison
(919) 715-6400
In-session Office Hours: 9 to 5 Monday - Friday
Mailing Address:
16 West Jones Street, Room 1028
Raleigh,
NC 27601
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April 8, 2005 Winston-Salem Journal "Lottery is not a sure bet, state senators say" Freshman Sen. Janet Cowell, D-Wake, said she campaigned against a lottery last year and would have trouble supporting one now. "I don't like the lottery, and I just can't see myself voting for a standalone lottery," Cowell said. "I just don't think the lottery is a good revenue stream - it's not the silver bullet for education that people think it is." She said she might consider a lottery, however, if it becomes part of a balanced revenue package that might include closing corporate-tax loopholes, increasing cigarette taxes significantly and modernizing the state's antiquated tax structure. But as Cowell scrolled through the e-mail she received yesterday in her Senate office, she estimated that 95 percent was against the lottery. "I've probably gotten 100 e-mails today asking me to vote against it," she said. April 8, 2005 WTVD "Lottery Foes Prepare to Fight Bill"State Sen. Janet Cowell, a Wake County Democrat, says the state needs a fair, stable tax structure -- not a lottery -- to fund education. "I really don't think it's the silver bullet some people think it is," she said. "Studies have shown that states that have a lottery really don't spend more on education than states that don't have it." March 24, 2005 N&O "Bill would increase Wake judges to 17" RALEIGH -- Two state senators from Raleigh have filed legislation this week to increase the number of district court judges in Wake County from 15 to 17. State Sens. Vernon Malone and Janet Cowell, Democrats from Raleigh, have requested more than $213,000 in 2005-06 to create the positions. The bill asks for $251,824 for the following year. The change would give the Wake district the same number of judges as Mecklenburg County and make the two the largest districts in the state. The 30 district courts in North Carolina range from two to 17 judges. "The workload among the district court judges in Wake County is astronomical," Malone said. "Wake is a metro county, it's a growing county ... I'm not even sure the two judges will be enough." Cowell said figures supplied by Wake Chief District Court Judge Joyce A. Hamilton show one judge for every 46,378 residents. Mecklenburg has one per 44,256, Guilford has one for every 36,149, and the district covering New Hanover and Pender counties has one for every 26,441 residents. January 22, 2005 N&O "Farewells Take the City By Storm" Raleigh Mayor Charles
Meeker joked that he knew the city would fall apart when at-large
council members Janet Cowell and Neal Hunt resigned their seats
Wednesday, the day when about an inch of snow knocked out the city
and Wake County. "But I thought it would take longer,"
Meeker quipped at a reception Thursday honoring the two, who are
headed to the state Senate next week." |