Congressional Republicans unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would establish a new office tasked with enforcing the ban on affirmative action and strip federal funding from universities that engage in racial discrimination.
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2023 @ 2:50 am
By: Daily Wire
|
A group of Republican senators is pushing President Joe Biden to take a stronger stance on China and Iran with legislation that would aim to drive a wedge between the two countries.
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2023 @ 5:14 am
By: Daily Wire
|
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for halting the Oracle Cerner Electronic Health Record (EHR) system deployments and pre-deployment, a move that Senator Tillis had repeatedly called for.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 12:34 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
Early in September, a 13-year-old middle schooler committed suicide while on campus. Wendell Middle School released the students due to a “medical crisis,” and all the students went home. All except Austin Pendergrass who died that day.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Lib Campbell
|
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law on Monday that effectively bans biological males from being able to compete against biological females in public schools.
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 8:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
North Carolina's COVID-19 State of Emergency ends after 888 days.
Published: Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced the Asylum Accountability Act
Published: Sunday, July 31st, 2022 @ 1:29 pm
By: Thom Tillis
|
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and six of his colleagues introduced the Iran China Accountability Act to call attention to Iran’s ties with Communist China
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 12:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
12.9% of the American population have student loan debt.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says the governor’s long-running COVID state of emergency is now the “status quo.”
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 7:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Gov. Roy Cooper said North Carolina’s state of emergency will continue, despite declining COVID numbers.
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2022 @ 10:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
This week marks the two-year anniversary of Gov. Roy Cooper’s state of emergency order due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has vetoed a bill to limit his powers as a governor, as well as the power of his successors.
Published: Friday, November 26th, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Six hundred days and counting. Gov. Roy Cooper has ruled North Carolina with a proverbial iron fist since unilaterally enacting a state of emergency March 10, 2020.
Published: Monday, November 22nd, 2021 @ 3:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
COVID-19 numbers are down across the board, yet the governor and health secretary continue to encourage people to wear masks and to follow a two-year-old emergency order.
Published: Saturday, November 20th, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
The N.C. House in a concurrence vote passed House Bill 264, Emergency Powers Accountability Act, 66-44, on Wednesday, Oct. 20. Specifically, the legislation requires the governor to get concurrence from the Council of State for an emergency declaration lasting more than seven days.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 11:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
With his state of emergency declaration now surpassing 600 days, Governor Cooper vetoed House Bill 264, the Emergency Powers Accountability Act, which seeks to strengthen and clarify current emergency management laws to restore checks and balances over the governor’s executive powers.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Veto of HB 264 – The Emergency Powers Accountability Act
Published: Saturday, November 6th, 2021 @ 1:04 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
|
Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed more legislation than all other North Carolina governors combined.
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 6:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
House Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne) and House Deputy Majority Whip Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort) sent Governor Cooper a letter today calling on him to provide specific details on what “metrics and data” need to be met for his nearly fifteen months long state of emergency to come to an end.
Published: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 @ 5:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
N.C. House leadership ask for data justifying continued emergency order
Published: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 5:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to tackling corruption as an economic and national security priority
Published: Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 @ 3:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it.
Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
A new lawsuit filed Friday, May 7, in Carteret County would end Gov. Roy Cooper’s ability to issue executive orders linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 9:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Lawmakers Argue No One Person Should Have Unilateral Authority to Shut Down State for Indefinite Time — Regardless of Party
Published: Sunday, April 4th, 2021 @ 10:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
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
|
You have been asking for it, well here it is.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 6:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Bill Comes on One-Year Anniversary of Gov. Cooper’s Statewide Emergency Order
Published: Friday, March 12th, 2021 @ 5:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|