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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Associate Justice Michael Morgan will resign from the North Carolina Supreme Court during the week of Sept. 4.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State budget writers have once again failed to pass a state budget by the beginning of the fiscal year
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Texas program should serve as a cautionary tale for North Carolina legislators debating $1.4 billion in funding for NCInnovation
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Praising North Carolina as “one of the foremost leaders in pro-growth state tax reform and relief over the past decade,” the Tax Foundation last week provided some analysis and guidance for the House and Senate tax change proposals.
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2023 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The nonprofit slated to receive $1.4 billion in the Senate budget plan touted the failing VinFast as a successful example to emulate
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) called on President Joe Biden to continue debt ceiling negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the federal government quickly approaches a default on obligations.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 5:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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Yesterday a House Judiciary Committee held discussions about a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment to restrain state budget growth.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $1.4 billion allocation for a non-profit called NCInnovation in the state Senate’s budget plan has raised some eyebrows. Given that this appropriation to the barely five-year-old non-profit organization would amount to nearly five percent of the entire state General Fund budget, it should.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House, Senate, and governor have each released their budget proposals for the upcoming biennium
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2023 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Morgan will not seek a second eight-year term next year.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 11:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Leftist allies of Chicago’s new Mayor Brandon Johnson have proposed a budget plan that would tax the rich and businesses, and would effectively defund police in a city already nearly crippled by crime.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 5:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. House's proposed budget would raise the mandatory retirement age from 72 to 76 for members of the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 12:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican lawmakers denounced the fiscal year 2024 budget proposal released by President Joe Biden on Thursday.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 9:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) issued an executive order on Tuesday directing his state’s agencies to report fines and suspensions related to COVID.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 9:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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Republican budget writers released their conference budget adjustments for the new fiscal year on Tuesday, circumventing the traditional appropriations process.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Instead, Honor Taxpayers and Emphasize Long-Term Sustainability
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly has voted to adjourn on Friday, July 1 to a date certain, meaning the 2021-2023 legislative biennium will not formally come to an end on Friday.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 8:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly’s short session continued this week with committee work and floor sessions in both chambers. As policy work begins to wind down, the largest item still left on the table for the legislature to tackle is addressing 2022-2023 state budget adjustments.
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 @ 2:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lower access to health care, higher tax burdens add up to ‘bad medicine’ for N.C.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 4:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday afternoon Governor Roy Cooper released his recommended budget adjustments for the upcoming fiscal year that begins on July 1.
Published: Friday, May 20th, 2022 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper says his proposed 2022-23 budget adjustments would address unfunded pieces of a court-ordered Leandro school funding plan.
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is among the top 10 Democrats named in The Washington Post’s quarterly Democratic presidential candidate ranking for 2024 released on April 16.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 9:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Fiscal takeaways from the President’s FY23 budget proposal
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“Transformative and generous.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 11:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Before agreeing to a schedule for adjourning this year’s legislative work, state lawmakers rejected one final push from Democrats to consider Medicaid expansion.
Published: Sunday, December 12th, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The last puzzle pieces of a new budget are finally coming together, as both the House and the Senate passed the $25.9 billion budget for the biennium. It is now headed to Gov. Roy Cooper, who announced earlier this week that he intends to sign it.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly is expected to being voting Tuesday on the newly-released 2021-23 conference budget.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 9:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A top N.C. Senate education leader is criticizing Attorney General Josh Stein for his handling of the state’s defense in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro school funding case have asked the court to bypass the legislature and order the state government to transfer $1.7 billion to begin funding components of the plan.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 12:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The reasoning behind the bill, as laid out in the bill’s language, is that “too many North Carolina citizens have no or inadequate savings for retirement.”
Published: Friday, November 26th, 2021 @ 8:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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