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The N.C. Senate voted to override two of Gov. Roy Cooper's remaining vetoes during a Wednesday evening session. With total debate time of less than 20 minutes and party-line votes of 30-9, both measures became law
Published: Friday, September 1st, 2017 @ 3:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization backing free-speech and due-process rights on college campuses
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health policy experts disagree whether significant free-market reforms can supplant Obamacare despite the program's rocky decline
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 12:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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About 30 percent of North Carolina's 6.8 million registered voters are Republicans
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While perfection is impossible in our world, things can be better than they are. Through purposeful action, all of us can help make that happen
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 5:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The power struggle between the Republican-led General Assembly and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper resumed Monday in two cases argued in state Supreme Court
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 3:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paul Gessing wanted to pop the top on the soda tax in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That was all
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 12:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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How should North Carolina be governed? The same question can be asked about any other state in America, or any other country in the world. It's a critical question
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 12:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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William Holder, a Wake County businessman and brother of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Friday officially became a member of the N.C. State Board of Community Colleges
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2017 @ 10:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A report paid for by the N.C. Hospital Association and prepared by the Research Triangle Institute has, from an economics perspective, a number of flaws
Published: Saturday, August 26th, 2017 @ 3:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Residents of municipalities and counties throughout North Carolina do indeed enjoy starting their Sundays with a cocktail
Published: Friday, August 25th, 2017 @ 4:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jasna Bukvic-Bhayani wants to open a makeup school, but the N.C. Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners refuses to give her a license
Published: Thursday, August 24th, 2017 @ 7:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Of the 25 members on Gov. Roy Cooper's Teacher Advisory Committee, not one teaches at a charter school - even though enrollment at charters has surpassed the six-digit mark
Published: Thursday, August 24th, 2017 @ 3:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republican-led N.C. House is scheduled to vote Thursday on overriding five vetoes from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Draw North Carolina's election maps fairly, and we'll end up with representation that more closely resembles this state's tight partisan split. Right?
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 2:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A law banning plastic grocery bags in some Outer Banks communities may be unconstitutional, says a prominent former lawmaker
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eight members of the state House either will face challenges from incumbents or will need to run for election in new legislative districts
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Support for school choice isn't going away, although critics say otherwise
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has given a high political profile to the discharge of the GenX chemical compound into the Cape Fear River
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A day after UNC-Chapel Hill wrapped up its meeting with the NCAA's infractions committee, North Carolina's highest court has delivered the university a victory in a separate - but related - case
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ordered information Monday about county election boards that are blocked from carrying out their duties as the local election season heats up
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics say N.C. State University's Clean Energy Technology Center is little more than a promotional ally of the solar industry, and the state should pull the plug on its funding
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly reconvenes Friday for another special session, primarily designated for redistricting business
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 1:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Suggesting Gov. Roy Cooper belongs to a group of "opportunistic politicians trying to drive a wedge further between us," on Thursday Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, offered his first detailed response to the week's protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Durham
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The power to grant a right to health care is the right to deny it
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has shot down legislators' attempts to clarify law allowing one state employee to draw separate paychecks from two state commissions
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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County elections boards with only two members would be allowed to take actions during this municipal election season, under a proposal filed today with the N.C. Supreme Court
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a post on the Medium.com website, on Tuesday Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper called for the removal or relocation of monuments honoring Confederates from state property
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My family and I just spent a week at the beach - and found our big stack of reusable grocery and retail bags to be rather handy
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 5:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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News that beer distributors through political action committees poured nearly $100,000 toward defeating a bill to lift a production cap on North Carolina brewers should surprise no one
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 2:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. senators plan to address Gov. Roy Cooper's handling of the GenX chemical controversy in an upcoming legislative hearing
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are plenty of bad epithets to attach to Lance Armstrong's name. "Trotskyite" isn't one of them
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A traditional four-year college degree isn't the only path to a successful career
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 @ 12:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Right to Try is gaining momentum across the country, yet states worry a cumbersome federal approval process will continue to inhibit patients' access to experimental drugs
Published: Monday, August 14th, 2017 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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