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Expect continuing partisan shots as Republican legislators and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration haggle over state government’s response to Hurricane Matthew.
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 @ 3:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For the second straight year, the N.C. Press Association acknowledged Carolina Journal’s reporting and commentary in its annual awards.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 3:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Vidant Health doesn’t understand why the North Carolina Senate wants to cut its funding.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Auditor Beth Wood says passage of her agency bill to help clean up local governments’ slipshod financial bookkeeping is a major win for taxpayers across the state.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 8:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In an act of integrity that also proved to be politically shrewd, future President John Adams served as defense counsel for British redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre of 1770.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 7:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate’s proposed biennial budget includes the largest pay raises for state employees in more than a decade, but doesn’t include a cost-of-living increase for state retirees.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 9:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When North Carolina governors and lawmakers talk about “the state budget,” they rarely tell you the whole truth.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 8:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Raleigh City Council has voted to allow people to rent one or two guest rooms, but homeowners won’t be allowed to rent entire houses.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 4:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Stand down. Work things out.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Given the result of the 2016 presidential election, it’s not surprising Democrats are talking a lot about the Electoral College as the 2020 campaign gets under way.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Days after the University of North Carolina System filed a lawsuit against Vidant Health — the eight-hospital system that holds a close relationship with East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine — UNC leaders say they hope to mend fences.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections wants to pay incoming Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell nearly $30,000 more than her predecessor Kim Strach.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The economic costs of corporate tax incentives outweigh their benefits, a new study by N.C. State University researchers says.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 5:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a world accustomed to skimming and scanning, what promotes deep reading? Paper or screen? Does the medium matter?
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 3:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In North Carolina, at-risk 4-year-olds unable to attend a brick-and-mortar pre-K may soon get a chance to attend virtual preschool.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 1:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Hendersonville, won’t seek re-election when his term expires next year.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 1:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina appropriates less taxpayer money to state colleges and universities in real terms than it did before the onset of the Great Recession.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 4:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The lone Republican on North Carolina’s Supreme Court issued three dissents in the latest batch of high-court decisions.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Silent Sam should not return to the Chapel Hill campus, the leader of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors says.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Fresh off N.C. Department of Insurance approval of cost-reducing reforms, Treasurer Dale Folwell is optimistic doctors and hospitals will join a new State Health Plan provider network.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After a week of subcommittee meetings, full appropriation consideration, input from the finance side, two rare Friday sessions, and two full days of debate, on Friday, May 3, the House passed its $23.9 billion General Fund budget proposal.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 2:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for more than 30 years, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Vidant Medical Center in Greenville has blocked the University of North Carolina Board of Governors from appointing any more members to the hospital’s board.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 5:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation wants to build a $340 million casino in Kings Mountain. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opposes the competition.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 4:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill allowing retired teachers to return to the classroom unanimously passed the Senate on Wednesday, May 8.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate approved the Tax Reduction Act of 2019 on a 28-13 vote on Monday, May 20, and sent it to the House. Last Thursday, the bill passed its initial vote by a 26-19 margin.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Co-admission partnerships between community colleges and University of North Carolina schools are multiplying.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 6:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As a regular consumer and producer of opinion columns, it’s possible that this observer tends to inflate their importance in the world of N.C. politics.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 4:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Opponents of measures that would relax North Carolina’s arcane — punitive, even — ABC laws are running out of new arguments, which are becoming more pervasive, more hard-edged.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 3:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate’s Republican leader and top budget writer said Wednesday, May 8, he hopes that chamber’s work on the General Fund budget will be done by the end of May. The House passed a $23.9-billion plan last week.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate on Wednesday, May 8, sparred over a pair of school choice bills that would expand eligibility for private school vouchers and lift the enrollment cap on virtual charter schools.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 7:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A move to ease restrictions for N.C. craft brewers who want to distribute their own beer is on the verge of becoming law.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 7:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Raleigh businessman and author Garland Tucker officially entered North Carolina’s 2020 U.S. Senate race during an appearance Wednesday, May 8, on Sean Hannity’s nationally syndicated radio talk show.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 7:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 562, “The Second Chance Act,” unanimously cleared the Senate May 8.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 6:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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