He calls it helping his team. What he is really doing is selling out the people of North Carolina.

In times when North Carolina needs more money for education and roads and health care, we certainly don't need to funnel money into a legal fund that facilitates Black's indiscretions.

Sadly, it appears that the N.C. House of Representatives is for sale. It is an institution where everything has a price, and Jim Black is the proprietor.

That's what eventually pushed North Carolina over the divide. It gave Governor Easley an argument: Why should our people be paying for schools in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina?

Our goal is to train people to prepare for and prevent emergencies.

The problem is if we allow, especially new people hired the option to whether they chose to be a paramedic or not eventually you're going to run out of paramedics.