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A three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina's 2018 state constitutional amendments mandating voter ID and lowering the state's income tax cap.
Published: Monday, September 8th, 2025 @ 10:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Riggs will have to defend the seat in 2024.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper appointed North Carolina Appeals Court Judge Allison Riggs to the state Supreme Court to serve the remaining term of Justice Michael Morgan, who retired from the court this month and announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for Governor.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina's voter ID and tax cap state constitutional amendments will head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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"With this kind of support at the federal level, it should be a wake-up call for regulatory reform to speed up the permitting process so we can build more nuclear," said SPN Energy Fellow, Amy Cooke.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"The founders understood that the Lockean natural rights of life, liberty, and property could only be preserved by educated people. Still, they also knew the corrupting threat to the republic posed by sprawling bureaucracies," said Foxx.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 12:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Three liberty-oriented groups in North Carolina and South Carolina have announced a new initiative to provide education, training, and support for school board members.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 9:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation is excited to enter a new era on July 1, 2023, when Donald Bryson succeeds Amy O. Cooke as chief executive officer and publisher of Carolina Journal. Locke announced Bryson’s promotion and Cooke’s retirement Tuesday.
Published: Thursday, April 20th, 2023 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina Utilities Commission works on a Carbon Plan that would dramatically shape the state’s energy future, the state grew by 133,088 people in 2022 alone, the third fastest-growing state in the nation.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Friday, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) released its long-awaited Carbon Plan, which aims to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the past week, Duke Energy systematically shut down parts of the North Carolina and South Carolina power grid in what the utility described as an effort to stabilize energy usage during bitter cold holiday temperatures.
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2023 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper is appointing left-of-center activist lawyer Allison Riggs to fill a vacancy on the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On September 14, 2022, Locke CEO Amy Cooke testified before U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding the importance of free and open debate in energy policy.
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As we celebrate the 246th birthday of the United States on this Independence Day, how patriotic are you feeling for your country?
Published: Monday, July 11th, 2022 @ 11:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday the N.C. General Assembly’s Senate leadership announced a health care proposal that includes Medicaid expansion under the federal entitlement program, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On April 20, or “4/20,” which in the world of marijuana smokers is like a national holiday, prominent N.C. Democrats celebrated the day themselves by calling for the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana and for clemency for those currently in prison for marijuana charges.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 3:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper and the Biden administration want to make North Carolina carbon neutral by 2050, and President Biden’s ambitious plans to combat climate change lean heavily on offshore wind generation.
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 2:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A statement from Amy O. Cooke, CEO of the John Locke Foundation:
Published: Monday, February 21st, 2022 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Update on the “Usurper Four”… the Democrat justices that want to overrule millions of North Carolina voters.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 9:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 9:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is an obviously better place to work than D.C., New York, and California. But the leftist group Oxfam (supporters of compulsory unionization) is trying to smear N.C. as the worst place in the United States for workers.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 11:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Four Democrat justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court could become the “Usurper Four” if they manage to remove two of their colleagues from a case involving Constitutional Amendments that were voted on in 2018.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has been under a state of emergency for nearly a third of Roy Cooper’s tenure. Is this a successful governorship?
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 11:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 1:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Locke CEO Amy Cooke Is Locke'd & Loaded
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 11:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jordan Roberts, a rising star in North Carolina's liberty movement, has been selected to lead the John Locke Foundation's government affairs division.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 11:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A N.C. company looking to bring a lithium mine to Gaston County is facing pushback from environmental groups, despite a deal already in place to use the mine’s products for electric vehicle batteries.
Published: Friday, December 3rd, 2021 @ 8:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke says “we won’t comply” with President Biden’s plan to force private employers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers.
Published: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 7:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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: Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 @ 2:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators in both the N.C. House and Senate took a short break from pressing business today to mark the 91st birthday of Thomas Sowell.
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 3:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 3:55 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: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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