On Thursday, April 17th in Raleigh, Governor Pat McCrory announced an initiative to provide in-state tuition to veterans living in North Carolina, regardless of their state of residence. This is big news for North Carolina’s huge military and veteran populations. Yet the Star News doesn’t seem to think it worth covering.

The initiative was announced at the NC Women Veterans Summit & Expo, the first event of its kind for the state, yet this too has been markedly absent from the Star News’ pages. The tuition program, which is being proposed in the FY15 budget, will help young service members to further their education at a significantly reduced cost. This in turn enhances their employment prospects and encourages them to stay and join the work force or start a business in our beautiful state. Why would the editors at the Star “News” go out of their way to ignore such a huge tuition program announcement and keep this very newsworthy story from their readers? The silence is deafening, and it is a slap in the face to NC’s veterans.

I was there. Yes, in Iraq, but also at an event that just about every media outlet in the state deemed newsworthy, except ours.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9507237

http://www.wnct.com/story/25271772/gov-mccrory-to-make-big-jobs-announcement-for-veterans

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/17/3792225/mccrory-asks-for-in-state-community.html