Legislation introduced by North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, along with fellow Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tx) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) that would preserve and protect funding for longtime high school programs and activities like archery and hunting safety
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 @ 6:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A House bill requiring North Carolina public schools to teach students a unit on the Civil Rights Movement has found widespread bipartisan support among state legislators.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) momentarily froze on Wednesday while speaking to the press with other Republican Senate leaders.
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 6:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper gave his fourth and final State of the State address Monday night to what appeared to be, at times, a divided room between Democrats and Republicans.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 6:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) formally rejected two high-profile Democrats from continuing to serve on the House Intelligence Committee.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 11:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Democrats are daring Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to make good on his pledge to remove two members from the House Intelligence Committee.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 7:08 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Supreme Court has opened Pandora’s box with their 4-3 decision on Voter ID. In Greek mythology Pandora’s curiosity led her to open a container entrusted to her husband, unleashing what we today call “a can of worms.”
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 8:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Remarks by President Biden To Department of Defense Personnel
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 10:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When the last of the three waves of the 1918 Spanish Flu subsided in 1920, America began an incomparable period of economic growth, good times and opportunity called “The Roaring Twenties.”
Published: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 9:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The media spent four long years suggesting that President Donald Trump was steeped in corruption, ensconced in partisanship, enmeshed in dangerous foreign policy fiascos.
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 9:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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Races filling the N.C. ballot were won or lost by the thinnest of margins.
Published: Saturday, November 14th, 2020 @ 2:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Checks and balances within our government’s structure play an important role.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For a while it appeared North Carolina’s leaders were heading down the road of bipartisan cooperation, something we can all applaud.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 @ 7:57 am
By: Tom Campbell
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There’s no question that Donald Trump defies precedents set by prior presidents. With or without Trump, American partisan political divisions appear as stark today as anyone can remember.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 8:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The holiday season may be upon us, but there is no shortage of political happenings in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2019 @ 8:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper led a bipartisan group of governors in calling on Congress to make critical reforms to long-term federal disaster recovery programs.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 4:39 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper declared Wednesday night that he is running for U.S. Senate against Cory Gardner (R-CO), who has long been seen as the most vulnerable Republican Senator in the 2020 election.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 12:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If Medicaid expansion forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for a service that was either previously paid for some other way or not consumed in the first place, there is no reduction in the cost of care.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the State of the Union address,
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 3:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers return to Raleigh next week for the 2019 session of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Legislative leaders plan to allocate $794 million for Hurricane Florence disaster relief when they return to special session on Monday, Oct. 15
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 2:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law the $793 million Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Act on Tuesday, Oct. 16, following unanimous legislative passage. An N.C. State University political science professor says not to expect the good vibrations to last
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 11:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has asked the General Assembly to authorize $1.5 billion to cover the state's portion of what initial estimates show is nearly $13 billion in damage caused by Hurricane Florence
Published: Saturday, October 13th, 2018 @ 2:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump listens to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, during a dinner with legislative leadership following meetings, Friday, January 5, 2018, at Camp David's Laurel Lodge, near Thurmont, Md.
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 3:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Republican-led N.C. General Assembly scored a victory in its ongoing legal war with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, as a three-judge panel rejected Cooper's latest lawsuit against lawmakers
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2017 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper encouraged continued collaboration to secure additional federal funding for Hurricane Matthew recovery in a meeting held yesterday with members of North Carolina's Congressional Delegation
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2017 @ 8:57 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper has issued two more vetoes this morning, targeting bills that would change the makeup of the state elections board and reduce the number of judges on the N.C. Court of Appeals
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 9:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With all the furor and protests accompanying the launch of the Donald Trump administration, you might assume there's little room for bipartisan cooperation in Washington
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The governor's message was a simple, yet powerful one: at a time when the nation is more divided than ever before, North Carolina bucked the national trend and came together to pass the Connect NC Bond by an overwhelming bi-partisan majority.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2016 @ 4:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Although the gap between Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina is rather wide on a number of issues - tax policy, Medicaid expansion, and campaign-finance laws come to mind - there are still some prospects for bipartisan cooperation in 2015 and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The core problem with President Barack Obama's speech on climate change is that it rejects environmental science in favor of the utopian idea that we can, acting collectively, control the weather.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 10:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A trillion-dollar sequestration that immediately would cut large portions of domestic and military spending likely will be deferred until budget architects can put together a long-term fiscal plan in the new Congress, U.S. Rep. David Price said Monday.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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