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Ten years ago, the passage of Obamacare vastly increased the federal government’s role in our health–care system.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2019 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal Associate Editor Kari Travis was named one of two outstanding young alumna by The Fund for American Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based free-market educational nonprofit.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2019 @ 7:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Volunteers from AbbVie, a pharmaceutical company, partnered with Heart of America Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to volunteer work and remodeling schools, to complete projects benefiting the community.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 2:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I have devoted most of my life to building, inhabiting, and sometimes leading organizations devoted to advancing the cause of freedom. But what I mean by that term may be quite different from what you mean.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 2:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If all the solar panels from industrial-scale electric plants in North Carolina were laid end to end, they would stretch from Raleigh to San Francisco and back nearly four times.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers have offered several proposals to repair the broken, outdated way the state governs alcohol through the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 2:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State senators voted June 12 to repeal the Map Act, the law allowing the N.C. Department of Transportation to freeze development on property within a highway corridor. The vote was unanimous.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Policy experts and lawmakers point to Senate Bill 609, K-12 Scholarship Changes, as a noteworthy way to advance school choice in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 6:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In an email to faculty and staff, East Carolina University Interim Chancellor Dan Gerlach and Brody School of Medicine Dean Dr. Mark Stacy urged Vidant Health and Pitt County commissioners to back off in their fight with the UNC System over Brody School of Medicine.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2019 @ 2:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Although policymakers sometimes portray increasing access and reducing cost as separate objectives for health care reform, the two are closely related.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 @ 5:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A measure that North Carolina craft distillers are counting on to help them thrive and, in some cases, simply survive is moving in the General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 @ 4:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Poet Adrian Rice, in a thick Irish brogue, paints a scene in the imaginations of the third-graders who sit before him in Walkertown.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 @ 11:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In 1940, some 3.6 million people lived in North Carolina, ranking the state 11th in the nation in population and first in the Southeast. Across the South as a whole, only Texas (6.4 million) was more populous.
Published: Monday, June 10th, 2019 @ 9:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Some advocates of higher pay for N.C. public school teachers don’t like the number $53,975. Specifically, they don’t like that number reported as the average salary for a teacher in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2019 @ 4:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While North Carolina continues to seek ways to fill medical provider voids across the state, government regulations block one partial solution.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2019 @ 4:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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July 1 is when a moratorium on the Map Act expires. House Bill 131 would formally do away with the state’s Transportation Corridor Official Map Act.
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2019 @ 12:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House fell short Wednesday in its attempt to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 359, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2019 @ 2:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former Democratic Sen. Joel Ford used to be a critic of school choice, but his experiences as a father changed his perspective.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2019 @ 11:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell has clashed with Vidant Health in the past over state resources and State Health Plan reforms, but isn’t involved in the current battle between the hospital chain and the UNC Board of Governors over control of Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2019 @ 10:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate/Higher Education Committee on Wednesday, June 5, approved the bill, introduced in the Senate as S.B. 290. It passed the House, 88-24, April 16.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 9:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Although it may not appear so, the leaders of both major political parties in North Carolina favor lowering the tax burden of large businesses.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The two main factors that should be considered when evaluating how hospital mergers affect a health-care market for patients are prices and quality.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Proponents of the Durham-Orange Light Rail Project were issued a crushing blow by the GoTriangle Board of Trustees, which terminated the project in early April.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 4:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If a new poll from Emerson Polling is accurate, the Democratic Party has an edge over Republicans in upcoming elections.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 2:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Co-chairmen of the House Select Committee on Disaster Relief panned sluggish hurricane relief efforts by the Cooper administration. They want renewed oversight authority.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 3:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina senators passed a budget resolution May 31, but they’re still working to resolve a disputed provision involving Vidant Health.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 @ 4:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Chuck McGrady, his hand on the polished bar, couldn’t stop smiling as he leaned in for a better look.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 @ 2:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate passed its budget plan for the next two years Friday by a 30-16 vote.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 @ 11:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system — created in 1937 in the wake of the repeal of Prohibition — for the past 80-plus years has remained mostly static.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate passed its version of a $23.9 billion 2019-20 budget amid sharp rhetoric that broke along partisan and regional divides.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The struggle over Vidant Health, the regional hospital network affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, escalated Thursday.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday, May 30, signed into law House Bill 363, the Craft Beer Distribution and Modernization Act, the result of a compromise among mid-sized craft brewers and the N.C. Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 4:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Students play a critical role in helping keep schools safe, State Superintendent Mark Johnson said during a May 30 news conference announcing a partnership with Sandy Hook Promise to deliver a statewide anonymous mobile tip line.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 3:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Senate is crunching numbers to consider building a new teaching hospital for East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, a source close to Senate leadership has told Carolina Journal.
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 @ 11:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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