The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to protect state whistleblowers from retaliation. Senate Bill 127, which heads to the House, would bring North Carolina in line with laws in dozens of other states
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 12:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the Cooper administration engaged in negotiations involving the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a national governors' group warned a Cooper adviser against a state agency taking action comparable to extortion
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper's administration could risk violating a state law protecting whistleblowers if it has threatened retribution against employees who want to cooperate with a legislative probe of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline deal
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 8:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has instructed employees of his administration to refuse to speak with investigators looking into his shady dealings surrounding the Atlantic Coast Pipeline deal, according to reports.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 11:49 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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More details have emerged regarding the shady nature of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Deal.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 2:48 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In North Carolina, the legislative branch oversees the operations of the executive branch. Not the other way around
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 11:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Quoting a Dr. Seuss character, a panel of 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges vacated a vital U.S. Forest Service permit developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline need to continue work on the 604-mile natural gas transmission line from West Virginia to North Carolina
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 2:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A team of former federal special agents with a rich background investigating public corruption and fraud will dig through documents and interview members of Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration to determine whether his $57.8 million Atlantic Coast Pipeline discretionary fund was a political pay-to-play
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who is Doug Heyl? Members of a special legislative committee looking into the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would like to know. Heyl is a top communications official in the state Department of Environmental Quality
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 4:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A legislative panel is hiring a special outside investigator to get answers from Gov. Roy Cooper about his creation of a $57.8 million discretionary fund tied to payments from Atlantic Coast Pipeline partners
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2018 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A special legislative investigative panel wants to know if Gov. Roy Cooper was in line to benefit personally from solar energy companies by creating a $57.8 million "slush fund" paid for by Atlantic Coast Pipeline developers.
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Did state approval of the North Carolina segment of the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline depend on Gov. Roy Cooper's administration securing a $57.8-million discretionary "mitigation fund" with the pipeline operators
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From the time it was announced in January, the agreement between Gov. Roy Cooper and the companies building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline invited questions about its constitutionality, legality, and practicality
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 2:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eight North Carolina school districts tapped to split $57.8 million from Atlantic Coast Pipeline developers aren't likely to see that money anytime soon
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2018 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly’s newly created subcommittees to investigate the pace of spending on recovery efforts for Hurricane Matthew and the unusual side fund negotiated by the Cooper administration with the operation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are complete
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 5:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders fear more lawsuits and constitutional showdowns with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will occur if, in their view, he keeps stepping on their control over state revenues
Published: Friday, September 7th, 2018 @ 5:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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More North Carolinians now think the state is headed in the right direction - as compared to seven months ago - but a majority still believe the country is on the wrong path, a new poll says
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican incumbents Dan Barrett and Joyce Krawiec headline the May 8 Republican primary in a reconfigured state Senate District 31
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2018 @ 9:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Jacksonville financial planner is running in the House District 14 Republican primary against the incumbent who has held the seat since 2004
Published: Friday, April 27th, 2018 @ 9:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If the governor directs where money goes and for what purpose, is it government spending?
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2018 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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80 of North Carolina's 100 counties are considered rural, understanding the definition to be a county in which the population density is less than 250 people per square mile
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Carolina Journal readers know, North Carolina Republicans have raised objections to Gov. Cooper’s Atlantic Cost Pipeline fund
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Minority Leader Darren Jackson, D-Wake, says Gov. Roy Cooper was within his constitutional authority to create a $57.8 million side deal to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2018 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Republican Party has asked for a federal investigation of the side deal struck between the Cooper administration and the utilities that will operate the $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Did Governor Roy Cooper violate federal law by extorting $58 million "under color of official right" to benefit himself
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, is worried $92 million from a national Volkswagen consent decree over Clean Air Act violations might get tangled up in another separation-of-powers showdown between Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last week of March could be a busy one for the Cooper administration.
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Dean Arp, R-Union, said Gov. Roy Cooper created a slush fund 10 times larger than actual mitigation costs by preying on vulnerable energy utilities seeking approval of a state permit to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper committed an unforced error by circumventing the General Assembly and creating a constitutionally questionable $57.8 million Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund, political observers and legislators say
Published: Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 @ 12:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The exchange of letters between legislative leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline continued Friday as lawmakers expressed exasperation with a response provided a day earlier by the governor's chief of staff
Published: Sunday, March 4th, 2018 @ 8:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The length of a fishing pier separated opposing groups making waves over oil and gas drilling off the North Carolina coast Monday evening inside the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown
Published: Thursday, March 1st, 2018 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Little fanfare surrounded the state Department of Environmental Quality's most recent decision to issue an air quality permit connected with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Department of Environmental Quality issued a vital water permit Friday advancing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, but environmentalists immediately criticized Gov. Roy Cooper for signing off on the approval
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 @ 1:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper insisted $57.8 million from energy companies building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was a voluntary contribution, but said at a news conference he doesn't know whose idea it was originally to seek the money he planned to distribute
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2018 @ 4:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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