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An attorney from Eden is the latest to declare his candidacy on the Republican ticket for North Carolina’s next lieutenant governor.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former North Carolina state senator and Lincoln County native Deanna Ballard announced Monday that she is running in the 2024 Republican primary for lieutenant governor.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 8:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The race for North Carolina’s next lieutenant governor just became a bit more crowded as another candidate threw his hat in the ring over the weekend.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 6:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC, was elected Tuesday to lead the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate has passed a Parents' Bill of Rights in a 28-18 vote.
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 7:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Neither state Senate Democrat who initially voted for the Free the Smiles legislation last month was willing to stick with that “yes” vote this week.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 5:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate voted Wednesday evening to adjourn the longest long session of the legislature in decades, effective March 10.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2022 @ 1:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While state lawmakers urge the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the 2022 N.C. Congressional maps, filing in the map’s district races is over, for now.
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives wants colleagues to override the governor’s veto of a bill ending school mask mandates. It would mark the first time in a year that lawmakers have tried to overturn a gubernatorial veto.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in North Carolina’s redistricting lawsuits are opposing efforts to have Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. disqualified from the case.
Published: Thursday, January 27th, 2022 @ 6:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a change of direction, former Cumberland County Sen. Wesley Meredith will run for a seat in the state House. He initially planned to run for a newly drawn state Senate seat that includes part of Cumberland and all of GOP-rich Moore County.
Published: Monday, December 13th, 2021 @ 12:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The list of Democrats retiring just keeps growing. From the U.S. House to the North Carolina House, Democrats are running scared because they know their chances of winning are dwindling just like Joe Biden’s approval ratings.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 8:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 2:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A leader of the N.C. Senate’s redistricting efforts is taking aim at a colleague’s claim about gerrymandering in congressional elections.
Published: Sunday, August 15th, 2021 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 105 will require a second vote Friday morning.
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"We have consistently collected more from taxpayers than we need to operate a sound state government," said Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus.
Published: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 @ 7:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate is close to approving a trio of health care bills aimed at reducing costs and increasing transparency in the system.
Published: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 @ 5:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After coming up one vote short in its first effort to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill to reopen schools, the Senate is moving to try again.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 10:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s 11th-hour veto of a school reopening bill Friday isn’t sitting well with nearly half of North Carolina likely voters, a Civitas Flash Poll shows.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Senate on Monday failed to override Governor Cooper’s veto of SB37, legislation that would have required districts to provide in-person learning.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. General Assembly on Monday, March 1, tried but failed — by one vote, 29-20 — to override the governor’s veto of a bill to reopen schools.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A 2,367 square-foot house, built about 2016, sits deep in the woods off Poplar Hill Road east of Fayetteville.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest round in the fight over redistricting has begun in the General Assembly.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 12:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein was always going to face backlash from Republicans over North Carolina’s voter ID, regardless of how he handled the legal battle, some experts say.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2020 @ 12:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly may finally end the months-long budget stalemate and override the governor’s veto of the budget.
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2019 @ 7:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate passed its version of a $23.9 billion 2019-20 budget amid sharp rhetoric that broke along partisan and regional divides.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers are developing rules for the freshly passed voter ID constitutional amendment
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 3:06 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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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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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, will have a Democratic challenger in the general election after all
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Rev. Mark Harris, who lost the 2016 Republican primary in the 9th Congressional District by 144 votes, won a rematch Tuesday with three-term incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Sen. Ben Clark, D-Hoke, survived an eligibility challenge that could have knocked him out of his re-election race a few days before the May 8 primary
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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