City employing all-of-government effort aimed at finding work for illegal immigrants, emails indicate
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2024 @ 3:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s decade of economic success deserves celebration. Even more so, however, it is worth applauding the important steps toward reform that state lawmakers have undertaken over the past decade.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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California is projected to have a deficit after holding onto a budget surplus for the past several years.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Office of State Controller just released its latest General Fund monthly financial report for April.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 2:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 1:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Insider reported recently about a Fiscal Research Division analysis showing the Senate’s “Billion Dollar Middle Class Tax Cut” would lead to $600 million shortfalls in three of the next five years
Published: Monday, April 24th, 2017 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With rumors of open rebellion in the FBI, this may be what the bold, beginning struggle for the principled soul of America looks like - one where there is at least a patch of fertile ground, where politicians are expected to possess some semblance of honesty, of integrity.
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined Senator David Perdue (R-GA) and colleagues on the Senate floor to discuss fixing Washington's broken budget process.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 @ 3:05 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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As the nation's sub-par economic recovery continues, tax revenues to state coffers are not rising as rapidly as in past periods of robust economic growth. Some left-leaning groups in North Carolina have attempted to seize upon this as an opportunity to criticize the state's 2013 tax cuts as a...
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 4:13 am
By: McCrory Communications
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It has the video of what the history and purpose of controlling nuclear weapons has been since the 1950's.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 11:46 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Few are surprised our legislature came up to the deadline to pass a new state budget and was forced to pass a continuing resolution. It’s a regular occurrence.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:44 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A funny thing has happened on the way to North Carolina's great budget crisis of 2015. Well, strictly speaking, what happened is funny if you are on the Right side of the political spectrum. If you are a liberal activist or Democratic politician, the emotions you may be feeling right now are...
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We don't know what the composition of the North Carolina General Assembly will look like after the November election. Republicans are favored to hold their majorities in both legislative chambers, to be sure, but their edge could shrink a lot, shrink a little, or stay roughly the same (a net increas
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Commissioners request that the United States Congress pass a budget after 4 years of their constitutional neglect.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 2:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, September 9, 2013
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 10:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County resolves that there must be a resolution to the federal government's budget impasse in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 12:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Few state-level legislative sessions have garnered as much attention as North Carolina's did his year, as evidenced by the "Moral Monday" protests and a condescending New York Times editorial. For the first time since Reconstruction, Republicans controlled all branches of government, and...
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Privatization is an umbrella term to describe techniques that increase competition in the public sector. Private sector entrepreneurs must constantly look for ways to cut costs and improve efficiency to maintain a competitive advantage.
Published: Monday, October 29th, 2012 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ongoing state budget "crisis" strongly underscores the urgent need for North Carolina to adapt significant state budget reforms.
Published: Saturday, August 25th, 2012 @ 8:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over the past three fiscal years, the University of North Carolina system has received hundreds of millions of dollars less in state tax dollars than it sought, as legislators of both parties struggled to close the fiscal gaps triggered by the Great Recession.
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2012 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday, April 6, about 800-1000 Tea Party and other conservative groups stood on the Capitol lawn in Washington DC to tell the government to "Cut Spending!"
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2011 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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