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Meredith Cooper, Gov. Roy Cooper’s sister-in-law, has been listed since April as manager of the company that owns the Cooper family’s Nash County solar farm property. That’s when Meredith filed an annual report with the N.C. Secretary of State.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 6:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you've ever traveled abroad you are asked this often. It's as if you are given an opportunity to "come clean" and "lay it all out on the table."
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2026 @ 6:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A court battle over legislative redistricting escalated Tuesday, July 2, into a tug-of-war over records that may or may not be considered public.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, the Senate passed the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to fund our military and national defense next year.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 11:53 am
By: Thom Tillis
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While initial rulings in the Leandro case had nothing directly to do with charter schools, recent discussions are bringing the traditional public school alternative into the conversation.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A push to reform North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions on health providers will make it to the Senate floor.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in North Carolina’s high-profile partisan gerrymandering case offered an excellent lesson about the limits of judicial power. It’s a lesson that should come in handy soon for state judges.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. lawmakers, one could argue, have had unprecedented success this legislative session in reforming the state’s archaic laws governing spirituous liquor.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A U.S. citizen’s unalienable right to pursue happiness proves true in the results of a new nationwide study by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Many political and education leaders in North Carolina say that our economy would be better off if our level of educational attainment was higher.
Published: Sunday, July 7th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill allowing for a provisional funeral director license is moving through the Senate with little pushback from lawmakers. But some funeral directors and the N.C. Board of Funeral Service aren’t happy with the measure.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 10:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As previously state in the first post on my time into the land of the exotic birds, I was called upon to provide a service, and I will argue that i was the greatest beneficiary.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 1:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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During a Friday, June 28, conference call, the State Board of Education agreed to delay implementing Istation, the state’s newly picked K-3 reading diagnostic tool.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2019 @ 2:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sunsets are a natural phenomenon, and always a process where one can estimate that the evening will produce a magnificent sunset, but, one can never be altogether sure until it either happens, or the light of the day unceremoniously just turns dark.
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Like most folks, I am a busy guy; however, when my wife makes those concrete plans that are so permanent that they most resemble the ankle weights for a deep sea dive by the mob, you heed her call first and foremost.
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2019 @ 10:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University alumna McKenna Cox will appear on NBC’s new show “Bring the Funny” this summer.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2019 @ 5:13 am
By: ECU News Services
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the biennial budget bill, saying North Carolina residents are dying because Republicans won’t expand Medicaid rolls.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 1:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An occupational license is a special kind of government regulation known as an entry regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On a recent trip to the Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, School of Hospitality Leadership director Dr. Bob O’Halloran met up with one of his former students, Lauren Avery.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 4:11 am
By: ECU News Services
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The N.C. Senate passed a $24 billion General Fund spending plan without debate. The House took nearly an hour Thursday, June 27, before following suit and approving the 2019-21 compromise proposal, House Bill 966.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 4:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a landmark victory for N.C. Republican lawmakers, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled gerrymandered congressional districts are a political issue, which federal courts should not decide as a matter of law.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 3:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republicans are in a strong position. The party has the White House and Senate, and a majority on the Supreme Court. No sitting president has been denied a second term for more than 30 years. Despite a recent cool down, the economy is humming.
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2019 @ 8:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This summer, more than 4,300 first-year students and their families will begin their journey as members of Pirate Nation with a visit to East Carolina University’s new student orientation sessions.
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Republican senators are making one last push to ease anti-competitive health-care laws before the legislative session ends.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate on Wednesday, June 26, unanimously passed House Bill 770, which prevents occupational licensing boards from automatically denying a license because of a prior conviction.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The House Energy and Public Utilities Committee on Tuesday, June, 25, approved a version of a bill to restrict new wind turbines near military bases, eliminating a proposed ban that was part of the original bill.
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2019 @ 7:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In true government fashion, the NC House has tried to slip a very bad bill past the citizens of North Carolina and has rushed and hushed it in order to prejudice those most harmed, our North Carolina commercial fishermen and our fellow recreational fishermen.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The largest physicians group in eastern North Carolina has agreed to participate in State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s cost-saving Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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