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Republicans Bokhari and Driggs retain seats on city council.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 12:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Local Government Commission Approves Over $300 Million in Financing Requests
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2024 @ 8:01 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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A $2.5-billion-dollar bond referendum is slated to be placed on the November ballot this year, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) looks for support to fund 30 different projects in the school district.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 10:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Nearly three months into the fiscal year, a budget bill has finally arrived
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2023 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, both chambers of the state legislature sent House Bill 259, the state budget, to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk for his signature.
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 11:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Folwell said the consolidation of healthcare has resulted in lower quality, lower access, and higher cost.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 7:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Bill will require an estimate of interest payments and potential tax increase
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Local governments turning to bonds and sales tax referendums due to rising interest rates and inflation.
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2022 @ 7:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The issue of spending many millions of taxpayer dollars to build a new Beaufort County jail is again raising its head.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 11:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Americans for Tax Reform lauds N.C. legislators as national leaders in "advancing pro-growth tax policies."
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 5:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Guilford County accused of illegal electioneering in favor of school bond referendum, sales tax hikeA candidate for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has accused the county government of using public dollars to illegally promote the passage of a $1.7 billion school bond and quarter cent sales tax increase.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Guilford County has a 1.7 billion dollar school bond referendum on their upcoming primary ballots. There is now a complaint that the county government has been involved in violating state election laws
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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Bioprocess engineering majors spread their wings in new ECU building
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 2:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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If all goes as planned, Wake County voters will be asked to approve a nearly $900 million bond referendum this November.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Commissioners split 3 to 3 on a resolution setting county policy that no major borrowing would be done without a vote of the citizens in a bond referendum.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2022 @ 4:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ribbon is cut on ECU’s new Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 10:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 23
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 7:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Let’s applaud Governor Roy Cooper for recognizing that North Carolina’s public infrastructure is inadequate.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 1:13 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina is poised to make great gains as we recover from the pandemic.
Published: Saturday, April 10th, 2021 @ 1:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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When a person takes out a mortgage to buy a home, there are significant “truth-in-lending” laws requiring the loan contract disclose — among other things — the interest payments that will be required.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House.
Published: Sunday, February 14th, 2021 @ 8:56 pm
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: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 2:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was nominated to be a member of the Jail Committee to study the current Beaufort County Detention Center.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:51 pm
By: Ray Leary
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The proposed $1.6 billion Guilford County Schools bond–and the proposed sales tax hike referendum to pay for it—were on thin ice anyway in the wake of the coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 @ 5:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ceremony marks construction milestone for ECU’s new Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 8:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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Mecklenburg County voters rejected a plan to raise the sales tax to fund arts and parks.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 1:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In November, voters in other North Carolina communities — including several of the largest in the state — will weigh separate multimillion-dollar initiatives.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2019 @ 4:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Voters in Raleigh, Rocky Mount, and High Point may get another chance to pick a mayor. And Cary voters easily passed bond measures to fund roads and parks.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 8:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Commissioner Jerry Langley formally initiated the conversation among the Beaufort County Commissioners that a new jail or "Public Safety Complex" (vernacular for Progressives) should be considered and built.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Construction started on the largest public driving pad in North Carolina, and Beaufort County Community College celebrated with a groundbreaking ceremony.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 4:47 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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The East Carolina University Board of Trustees swore in five new members and elected officers during its regular meeting Friday morning. It also approved the sale of alcohol in athletic facilities and broke ground on the ECU Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 1:10 pm
By: ECU News Services
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