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A group of prominent North Carolina business leaders, and some big Republican donors, sent a letter Tuesday morning to all House Republicans urging them to abandon plans to muddy the budget process with legalized casinos
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 10:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An independent expenditure group connected to former Governor Pat McCrory has launched one of the first known mail attacks in the 2022 U.S. Senate race.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 3:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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There is broad agreement that North Carolina is better suited to handle redistricting in a more transparent fashion than a decade ago, but further improvements can be made to the process according to a wide spectrum of speakers at Duke University’s Redistricting and American Democracy two day sympos
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly this week appointed new members to the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan group of state lawmakers Thursday introduced the second of what may be several measures to reform North Carolina's redistricting process.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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That $10 pair of pants you find now at your local discount store? Prepare to see the price jump to $12
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 @ 9:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Locke Foundation founder and former chairman Art Pope today was elected chairman of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation's largest conservative grantmaking charitable organizations
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 8:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is excited to announce that it will soon change its name to the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 7:06 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory convened the first meeting of the Hurricane Matthew Recovery Committee today and outlined a recovery plan for the first 100 days to help North Carolina recover from the storm.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 12:04 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In spite of persistent, sustained efforts by grassroots Constitutional conservatives, a kangaroo court style proceeding removed Hasan Harnett as Chairman of the NC Republican Party on Saturday, April 30.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 4:00 am
By: Raynor James
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On Saturday, the NCGOPe tossed out the party's first black chairman and replaced him with a, um, "intellectually-challenged" white man who documentary evidence clearly demonstrates was clearly outperformed by said ousted black man.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 @ 8:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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This morning, the Editorial Board of the News & Observer condemned a lawsuit brought by the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) on behalf of two individuals as “suspicious” and nothing more than “political interference.”
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 1:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This is an "open letter" in that I intend to send it to other parties who will find its contents interesting in addition to our Committee's members.
Published: Monday, April 18th, 2016 @ 12:29 am
By: Raynor James
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Two of state government's most influential fiscal administrators overseeing budget and revenue operations are leaving their posts, and Thursday Gov. Pat McCrory called a news conference at the Executive Mansion to announce their successors.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina's legislative session (presumably) winds down over the next couple of weeks, it seems increasingly unlikely that the cap on state spending growth and other provisions of the proposed Taxpayer Protection Act will pass this year. The Senate approved the measure a few weeks ago...
Published: Sunday, September 13th, 2015 @ 9:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If the recent review of campus-based centers by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors was all an elaborate ruse to silence a critic of state Republicans, it would probably qualify as the most improbable, elaborate, and ineffective conspiracy in North Carolina history.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Steve Logan, former East Carolina University head football coach, recently remarked that things don't usually turn out well for head coaches. The same is often true for anyone who serves "at the pleasure" of someone or some group. UNC President Tom Ross is the latest example.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Imagine that a UNC Center for Western Civilization (which, of course, does not exist) were to co-sponsor a conference with the Heritage Foundation.
Published: Monday, December 29th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I'm sure the very thought of that sends shockwaves of trauma across The People's Republic of Chapel Hill. Emergency drum circle sessions are being organized.
Published: Sunday, August 31st, 2014 @ 10:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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They're dancing in the streets in Carrboro. The Great Satan — Art Pope — is stepping away from his state government role. There is a new feeling of hope and optimism around the drum circles these days.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 5:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s state budget tug-of-war concluded August 1 when the General Assembly passed a $21 billion appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014-15.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that Art Pope will step down as state budget director.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:29 am
By: Christopher Maye
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It's really sad listening to the folks around the drum circle moaning about Art Pope.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Despite being the true political boss of North Carolina — the one from whom Gov. Pat McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis, and Senate leader Phil Berger take their orders over quaffs of mead at the Stonecutters Lodge — Pope has used recent events to camouflage the extent of his power.
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House and Senate budget negotiators cleared a major obstacle Wednesday by compromising on the Medicaid component of a $21 billion 2014-15 General Fund spending plan, but still face potentially prickly deliberations on Medicaid reform, teacher pay, and teacher tenure.
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate budget negotiators will meet Wednesday morning in a public "conference committee" meeting to start ironing out differences between three fiscal plans: one proposed by Gov. Pat McCrory and two passed by each legislative chamber. The question is whether House conferees will take part.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The two chambers of the General Assembly have been unable to agree on their budget adjustments for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which begins Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Art Pope, director of the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM), and Dr. Aldona Wos, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), released the following statement
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Following the news of the death of Joyce Pope, State Budget Director Art Pope's mother, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement...
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
By: Chris Downey
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