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After months of meeting across the state, the House Select Committee on School Safety met for the final time Thursday to approve another round of recommendations to make schools safer
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the courts rule against laws our legislature has passed, which they often do, it never seems to enter lawmakers' minds that those rulings are because of their own wrongheaded notions
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2018 @ 3:16 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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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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The Beverly Boswell for N.C. House Committee responds to Bobby Hanig's shameful, personal attacks against Representative Boswell - making her relive her history as a victim of domestic violence
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @ 11:13 am
By: Beverly Gwyn Boswell
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Representative Beverly G. Boswell (R-Dare) announced today legislation she plans to file during the upcoming 2018 short legislative session to reestablish the northern N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) water testing laboratory in Dare County
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2018 @ 11:57 pm
By: Beverly Gwyn Boswell
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North Carolina oysters and the watermen who grow them hold a distinguished place in our State's rich coastal heritage and history
Published: Monday, April 9th, 2018 @ 6:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican State Representative Beverly Boswell said today her primary challenger "sounds like Bernie Sanders" with his "emotional" opposition to President Trump's proposal for oil and gas exploration 70-miles off the North Carolina coast
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Our legislators are due to return to Raleigh on January 10th, another continuation of the 2017 session they just can't seem to conclude
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 2:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The Left would lead you to believe that Medicaid expansion would provide low-income North Carolinians with top-notch medical care, create tens of thousands of jobs, and magically be paid for by "someone else."
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 12:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina has a new security detail to ensure public university campuses stay true to the First Amendment
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 @ 10:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2017 legislative long session is over. Kind of. In the wee hours of June 30, on the eve of the new fiscal year, the General Assembly adjourned, only to schedule encore sessions in August and September
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2017 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's been a decade since Rep. Bill Brawley, R-Mecklenburg, uncovered a sex trafficking ring at a hotel in west Charlotte
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 @ 12:29 am
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: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Round one of this year's legislative session is over. But they'll be back
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 8:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In December, my colleagues and I put together a Roadmap to Freedom in preparation for the 2017 legislative session
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While North Carolina legislators and Gov. Roy Cooper haven't yet received the report on state income taxes paid or refunded by the April deadline, they shouldn't count on a positive "April surprise" to make fiscal decisions for them
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative redistricting reform proponents on the Left have become more vocal since Republicans took control of the legislature in 2010
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2017 @ 9:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Here's a recount of the twists and turns of House Bill 2, the infamous "bathroom bill."
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 @ 11:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's Medicaid program already covers children, pregnant mothers, the elderly, blind, disabled, etc.
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2017 @ 12:22 am
By: Bill Cook
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If the relationship between new Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly remains a “known unknown” at this point, one element of that relationship almost certainly can be characterized as a “known known”
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At least two major "known unknowns" complicate predictions about the course of the N.C. General Assembly's 2017 session
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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3rd Term House Member Representative Chris Malone (HD-35, Wake County) issued the following statement on being selected as Deputy Majority Whip
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 @ 9:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bipartisanship ruled the day as lawmakers returned Wednesday to begin the 2017 long session of the General Assembly
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2017 @ 12:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's current method for funding public schools favors wealthy counties over low-income areas, according to a new study from the state legislature's Program Evaluation Division
Published: Friday, December 30th, 2016 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will be dissecting Tuesday's elections for months to come but there are some immediate takeaways from the outcomes. With three notable exceptions it was a great year for Republicans in North Carolina
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2016 @ 3:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A legislative oversight committee decided on Tuesday to delay a push to eliminate and consolidate a number of occupational licensing boards.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 @ 3:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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