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The clock on partisan gerrymandering keeps ticking
Published: Sunday, July 8th, 2018 @ 9:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. State University professors Anna Egalite and Stephen Porter find new recipients of Opportunity Scholarships scored significantly higher than their public school counterparts in math, reading, and language arts.
Published: Sunday, July 8th, 2018 @ 12:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers have a long recognized love-hate relationship with the media and lobbyists
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest statewide poll by the Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, showed Republicans losing ground against Democrats in the “generic” sense
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should all Americans be required to purchase health insurance? This was a major bone of contention among conservative reformers during the health care debates of the 1990s
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Victims of human trafficking can feel mistreated in the North Carolina justice system, facing charges for offenses they committed while under the influence of coercion and deception, state policymakers say
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2018 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House Rules Committee passed two potential constitutional amendments Thursday
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2018 @ 6:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Court of Appeals gave Lt. Gov. Dan Forest the green light for his lawsuit against the Employees Political Action Committee, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2018 @ 11:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today the North Carolina House Committee on the Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House will consider House Bill 916 – North Carolina Health Plan
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2018 @ 8:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The judge, who’s the brother of Gov. Roy Cooper and has been on the bench since 1999, took issue with a recent Carolina Journal story by Don Carrington. It asserts that Pell Cooper’s role as the manager of three Limited Liability Companies likely puts him at odds with judicial ethics rules.
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2018 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate delivered swiftly on a leadership pledge to kill Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the 2018-19 General Fund budget, voting 34-13 to override Thursday, June 7
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 @ 6:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would let voters enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the state's constitution
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new poll shows that North Carolinians are mostly optimistic about the economic condition of the state and the country as a whole
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 @ 12:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the trade dispute with China picks up, bigger farms in North Carolina are scrambling to cope with a shrinking market of customers
Published: Monday, July 2nd, 2018 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether North Carolina pays its public schoolteachers at a level close or equal to the national average is one of the most-debated issues in state politics. Alas, it doesn't deserve to be
Published: Monday, July 2nd, 2018 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A majority of North Carolina's congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats, has spoken out against the separation and detainment of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2018 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two weeks ago, both houses of the N.C. General Assembly voted unanimously to approve House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2018 @ 2:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In May, about 19,000 North Carolina teachers gathered in Raleigh to “Rally for Respect,” an event organized by the N.C. Association of Educators.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2018 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Wilson Times editors took the General Assembly to task for passing House Bill 277, which would create a study group to decide how to the state should regulate naturopathic doctors as "licensed health care practitioners."
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2018 @ 8:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate gave tentative approval to House Bill 1092, a constitutional amendment requiring photo identification to vote in North Carolina elections
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2018 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Shawn and Cindy Weeks would like nothing more than to move
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2018 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is the role of education in America? What is government’s role in providing that education
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2018 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A two-sentence order from a federal judge means North Carolina will not reinstate primary elections for 2018 judicial races. The order arrives less than a day after candidates started filing for judicial offices across the state
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2018 @ 1:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Listen to complaints from the political left, and you might believe that North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly spends much of its time carving a dangerous trail through uncharted public policy terrain
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2018 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1983, Marsalee Nicholas, "Marsy," a student at the University of California-Santa Barbara, was shot to death by her stalker ex-boyfriend. One week after the killing, Marsy's mother, Marsella Leach, and her brother, Henry Nicholas, were accosted by the alleged killer in a grocery store. They had n
Published: Thursday, June 28th, 2018 @ 10:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you read my column, or anyone else's work, because you already expect to agree with the opinions expressed and want to feel reaffirmed, I get it. If you agree and hope you'll gain more "rhetorical ammunition" with which to argue your case, I get that even more
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 10:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a pair of bills Friday that tweak state election laws and judicial election districts
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 5:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The HOPE Act would allow local police to access without a warrant the medical records of drug suspects
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 12:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House completed the snub of Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto with a 73-44 override vote, as a single Democrat, outgoing Wake County Rep. Duane Hall, joined a unified Republican caucus
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the long-running dispute between State School Superintendent Mark Johnson, a Republican elected in 2016, and the State Board of Education, which currently has a majority of Republican appointees, the North Carolina Supreme Court has sided 6-0 with Johnson
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2018 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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SurveyUSA, along with the Civitas Institute, a nonprofit conservative public policy organization, released findings from a flash poll showing a majority of voters support several constitutional amendments proposed this year
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 11:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A divided U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Ohio’s method of removing inactive voters from election registration rolls shouldn’t affect North Carolina’s maintenance of voting records too much, a spokesman for the state elections board says
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly unanimously approved House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 5:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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