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Two Moore County elected officials have launched a grassroots movement against the ongoing COVID-related executive orders in North Carolina — including the mask mandate.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 12:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you think about regional differences in North Carolina politics, economics, or culture in terms of urban blue and rural red, you are missing a thick slice of the story: the suburbs.
Published: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Interest in homeschooling has surged in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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More N.C. counties would be allowed to post public notices online instead of paying to run them in newspapers, under two local bills introduced in the House.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 7:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The vast majority of respondents to a new John Locke Foundation poll of likely 2022 general election voters in North Carolina support the state’s right-to-work law and would support a right-to-work amendment to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 9:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Senate has passed a new version of a bill that would require N.C. sheriffs to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two years after Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a similar effort.
Published: Sunday, March 21st, 2021 @ 1:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Smarter than many Republican politicians, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson understands his political base.
Published: Sunday, March 21st, 2021 @ 4:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced Tuesday, March 16, the creation of a task force dedicated to giving “students, parents, and school faculty a voice to speak out about cases of bias, inappropriate materials, or indoctrination they see or experience in public schools.”
Published: Saturday, March 20th, 2021 @ 10:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic brought North Carolina to a screeching halt, Gov. Roy Cooper shows no sign of relinquishing the sweeping and open-ended emergency powers he has claimed under state law.
Published: Saturday, March 20th, 2021 @ 8:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For more than a decade, Republicans have controlled operations of North Carolina’s General Assembly.
Published: Friday, March 19th, 2021 @ 9:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly this week appointed new members to the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent Carolina Journal story detailed Attorney General Josh Stein’s fight for school administrators to retain sweeping powers to regulate and punish North Carolina public school students for disfavored speech that occurs off-campus.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A plan for North Carolina to provide an opportunity for a sound, basic education to all students now waits with a judge in Superior Court.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 10:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Wilmington’s Republican senator has teamed up with a Winston-Salem Democrat to push a bill that would expand North Carolina’s film grant program — a program critics say is actually a money loser for the state.
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 @ 7:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of N.C. House lawmakers have introduced a bill to, they say, strengthen and clarify current law to require approval from a majority of the Council of State for emergency actions by the governor.
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 @ 11:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State lawmakers have begun a sweeping investigation of the N.C. High School Athletic Association, a move that could lead to changes on how high school sports are governed.
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 @ 7:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, has introduced a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 5:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend the state award a 10-year contract for warehouse services to LB&B Associates, the target of an audit in 2018 that has over the previous years cost the state about $13.5 million.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Prospects of Lara Trump running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina next year got an unexpected boost Friday night.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 2:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, Cooper joined with both Republican and Democratic leaders in the N.C. House and Senate at a news conference Wednesday, March 10, to unveil a new school reopening plan for the entire state.
Published: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 @ 2:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers have introduced a pair of bills that would give broader scope-of-practice opportunities for advanced practice registered nurses in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, March 12th, 2021 @ 11:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Accusations aimed at North Carolina’s public high school sports governing group “range from ill-informed to just plain wrong.”
Published: Friday, March 12th, 2021 @ 6:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of Need laws give the state control of medical resources.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 10:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In North Carolina politics, few issues are as contentious as education.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of Need laws have ruined governors and exiled the wealthy and the powerful to federal prison.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 8:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents in 14 North Carolina public school districts would have the option of sending their children to full-time, in-person instruction under a local bill approved by the N.C. House K-12 Education Committee on Tuesday, March 9.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 5:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says lawmakers are negotiating with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, on a plan to reopen schools.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 4:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As the N.C. State Board of Education votes Thursday, March 4, to reopen schools, a far-left teachers’ union is trying to deny that children are suffering from learning loss.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 7:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When it comes to an inherent right, nothing is regulated quite like the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal once again was recognized by its peers for excellence in journalism, winning five awards presented by the N.C. Press Association.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 6:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After coming up one vote short in its first effort to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill to reopen schools, the Senate is moving to try again.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 10:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public school systems in the Tar Heel State are experiencing the highest declines in student enrollment in decades.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 10:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly has passed with a unanimous vote a new COVID relief bill that would direct nearly $1.7 billion in aid across the state.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday, March 4, calling on all public school districts to give parents the option of in-person learning by the end of March.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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