north carolina republican state representative larry pittman pippen has some radical ideas on how to better and force the death penalty and who should face it and in an e-mail to the north carolina general assembly said that we need to make that out penalty a real deterrent again by actually carrying it out every appeal that can be made should have to be made a one time not a serial matter to murderers and i would include abortionists rapists and kidnappers as well are actually executed it will at least have the deterrent effect upon them for my money we should go back to probably hang the outcry for abortionists to face public anger is nothing new but with legislation being introduced in multiple states over the past few years there was centrally legalized the murder of abortion providers by protecting those who kill not to mention bill o'reilly's obsession with dr george tiller who he referred to as tiller the baby killer that culminated with a madman eventually shooting tiller dead in church state representative larry pittman should watch his words he tragically he too may have a lot on his hands one day and that's very very. after the break the california legislature voted friday on a single

past year despite 15% budget cuts in north carolina they met the entire required annual contribution. i wrote 100 handwritten thank-you notes to the general assembly colleagues thanking them for their support of the pension plan even in hard times. so while it is true we have a solid plan there's always something new to learn and in north carolina we pride ourselves on our educational institutions and the pension plan. there's always new things to learned. we put together when i became treasurer back in 2009 a future of the retirement system commission. we had taxpayer advocates, employees, citizens experts chaired by bob clarke of nc state university. we talked about how to improve the system. are there ways to change? this was created in 1941 and the work force has changed. there were a couple things and one we're working on, there was a thought that short-term employees might want the option -- we have a ten year period that is more conservative than other systems in the country and there might be teachers and others who work for a short time who might want an optional choice. that was not all the league passed by the general assembly but was o