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Occupational licensing rules may be keeping people from moving across state lines and toward job opportunities, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're ending intrusive EPA regulations that kill jobs, hurt family farmers and ranchers, and raise the price of energy so quickly and so substantially.
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Three rural North Carolina counties will see a total of 71 new jobs and $23.2 million in private investment from economic development projects with manufacturing companies in Caldwell, Clay and Wilson counties, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 1:27 am
By: Governor's Office
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The misguided and ultimately debilitating and tragic ban of alcohol that we called Prohibition was, at its core, about control
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This Act authorizes fiscal year 2018 appropriations for critical Department of Defense (DOD) national security programs, provides vital benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes authorities to facilitate ongoing military operations around the globe
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 5:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper today announced 53 new appointments to various state boards and commissions, including the NC Works Commission, the Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee, and the Global Transpark Authority
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 5:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Angry lawmakers Tuesday advocated civil and possibly criminal action against former executives of Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions, the state's largest behavioral health network
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC), Pete Sessions (R-TX), and Ken Buck (R-CO) are applauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) following last month’s announcement that two of its facilities will partner with local providers to offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as a treatment option
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 3:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Top legislative leaders are asking a three-judge panel to move up its hearing date in the latest round of legal wrangling over redrawn N.C. House and Senate election maps
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1886, Sir Edward Clarke delivered a speech in the U.K. House of Commons and in polite way of insulting someone, he said: "The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all."
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) will create 428 jobs over three years in North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper announced today, as the company locates a warehouse facility in Edgecombe County and plans an expansion of manufacturing operations in Durham
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 8:57 am
By: Governor's Office
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For most of the 241 years since North Carolina adopted its first Constitution there have been arguments about the proper balance and separations of power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 8:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I was up long before dawn, this day. I was at the early service in the back yard of the rabbit patch, standing under a sycamore, not bearing a single leaf, when morning broke.
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 12:59 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The last batch of N.C. Supreme Court opinions for 2017 confirms what court watchers have witnessed during the rest of the year: A change in the court's partisan "control" has not translated into a clear split of justices along party lines
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump has signed into law a defense budget that will support our national security and America First policies.
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 11:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The University of North Carolina Board of Governors could weigh in as early as this week on a state law requiring college campuses to protect free speech
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 4:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), as part of my efforts to keep the Congress informed about deployments of United States Armed Forces equipped for combat.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 3:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced that Kim Canady Barnes will serve as his next State Director and Luke Blanchat will serve as his Deputy State Director
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 2:40 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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As most of you may know, I take education very seriously.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 2:30 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The bone chilling rain is about to wind down, it seems. But for just a few measly degrees, it would have been snow.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 10:53 am
By: Michele Rhem
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While I don't consider myself an expert on North Carolina's laws governing alcohol, I do think I'm pretty well informed
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 10:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today's attempted mass murder attack in New York City-the second terror attack in New York in the last two months-once again highlights the urgent need for Congress to enact legislative reforms to protect the American people.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 8:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The recent killings of four workers at an eastern N.C. prison have prompted the legislature's top two officers to call for the return of capital punishment in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 1:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A far-left activist group funded by George Soros is readying the women who accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct to demand a congressional investigation.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 12:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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State agencies reported a record 250 data breaches, identity information thefts, and unauthorized disclosures of personal records in their custody in 2017
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 12:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 12-07-2017, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Bruce Tyrell Scott, 33 years of age, of 577 Cherry Run Road in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 12:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump has signed a space policy directive instructing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to pursue manned extraterrestrial exploration.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 12:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On 12-08-2017, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit and Probation Officers with North Carolina Department of Public Safety arrested Thomas Monroe Gaynor, 33 years of age, of 409 Idalia Road in Aurora.
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2017 @ 9:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Tax Foundation has just released its 2018 State Business Tax Climate Index, and North Carolina holds on to the number 11 position.
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2017 @ 9:17 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, Beverly Young Nelson, the woman who accused Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore of molesting her when she was 16-years-old and who brought out a signed copy of her yearbook from Moore to prove her connection to him, admitted that she had written the alleged time and location of
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2017 @ 1:39 am
By: Daily Wire
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The University of North Carolina Law School's Center for Civil Rights is cutting ties with the university system
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2017 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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