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A back-and-forth power struggle between state lawmakers and members of the North Carolina Board of Education came to a head in the new budget—and, at least for now, lawmakers won.
Published: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 @ 8:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of prominent North Carolina business leaders, and some big Republican donors, sent a letter Tuesday morning to all House Republicans urging them to abandon plans to muddy the budget process with legalized casinos
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 10:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We are being asked to vote for casinos in the NC State Budget. Casino legislation has not been moved through any committees in the NC House, and members have yet to have input into the process or content of the legislation.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 4:03 am
By: ENC NOW
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The Office of State Budget and Management and the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division released their joint forecast for North Carolina’s revenue today. This is a standard procedure that occurs in the early days of the budgeting process to inform lawmakers of the state of the economy.
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called on his fellow Democrats to negotiate with the Republican House majority over the debt ceiling.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 1:12 pm
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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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 31 2022, to continue the budgeting process, where the professed "Progressives" moved expediently to spend unwisely the People's money.
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2022 @ 2:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 31 2022, to continue the budgeting process, and it got weird real fast if one knows the history within the politics of governing Beaufort County.
Published: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022 @ 8:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 31 2022, to continue the budgeting process that eventually leads to the ratification of fiscal budget for 2022 /2023.
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2022 @ 2:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 26 2022, to continue the budgeting process that eventually leads to the ratification of fiscal budget for 2022 /2023.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 24 2022, to continue the budgeting process that eventually leads to the ratification of fiscal budget for 2022 /2023.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 19 2022, to continue the budgeting process that eventually leads to the ratification of fiscal budget for 2022 /2023.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 9:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 16 2022, to continue the budgeting process that eventually leads to the ratification of fiscal budget for 2022 /2023.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Budgeting process begins with the Great and Annual Beaufort County Commissioner Retreat, where the Commissioners are told and shown and tasked to acknowledge just how much of the public's money is necessary to keep their government afloat.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 12:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly (specifically the Senate) is using the budget process to press some policy goals.
Published: Friday, July 23rd, 2021 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The budget of Beaufort County is determined each year during the budget process meetings.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 3:47 am
By: Tandy Oliver Dunn
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We need to fix our budget process. Beaufort County currently uses a continuation budget process to determine our budget and our tax rate.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 12:54 am
By: Tandy Oliver Dunn
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The budget and the House vote process are profoundly disappointing.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 3:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has been sixteen days since Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders sent a detailed, balanced compromise offer to Republican leaders in the General Assembly. As of today, Republican leaders have not shared any counteroffer to keep the budget process moving forward.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 6:55 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Last week, Governor Cooper and Democratic legislators put forward a detailed, responsible compromise budget proposal and invited Republican legislative leaders to meet and negotiate.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 2:06 pm
By: Governor's Office
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I’ve always likened North Carolina’s budget process to a dance, but this year it is hard to tell whether it’s a boogaloo, dosey-doe or the chicken dance. Longtime observers say they’ve never seen anything like what’s taking place.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 3:33 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Ford Porter, spokesperson for Governor Roy Cooper, shared the following comment on where things stand with the state budget process:
Published: Monday, June 24th, 2019 @ 4:00 pm
By: Governor's Office
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If the state budget process seems polarized now, just wait.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 9:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With each step of the budget process, the lines become clearer in the battle over the future of North Carolina for state employees, taxpayers, and citizens.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The structure of the deal seems designed to skirt the constitutional requirement for the General Assembly to approve the raising and spending of funds.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The recent announcement by leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly that changes to the current two-year budget will be settled in a conference report, and not through the regular appropriations committee process has drawn a lot of ire
Published: Thursday, June 14th, 2018 @ 2:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Republican legislative leaders’ decision to hold secretive budget deliberations was bad politics, and could further motivate angry Democrats to flood the voting booth this fall, political observers say
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2018 @ 7:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Department of Environmental Quality issued a vital water permit Friday advancing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, but environmentalists immediately criticized Gov. Roy Cooper for signing off on the approval
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 @ 1:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Republicans suggested the state could approach a constitutional crisis if it enables a governor to control money outside the normal budgetary process
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 state budget agreement moves through the legislative approval process toward Gov. McCrory's desk, there is plenty of media coverage summarizing the major issues addressed in this year's spending plan, such as teacher pay, tax cuts and rainy day funds
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Community College operates on a budget funded by the N.C. General Assembly and the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, and setting the budget each year is an intricate process.
Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 1:35 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Over the last few weeks, debates in the North Carolina legislature have focused on the budget and the stark differences between the House and Senate versions. This week I would like to discuss more of the politics of the budget process and what that means for spending measures.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Efficient, effective, accountable, and transparent — legislators and policy advisers tout each of these goals when crafting the state's budget. While these outcomes are goals for lawmakers, many decisions must be made in order to achieve these goals.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Efficient, effective, accountable, and transparent — are all goals legislators and policy advisors tout when crafting the state's budget. While these outcomes are goals for lawmakers, there are many decisions that must be made in order to achieve these goals. The budget process is not set...
Published: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States could have a constitutional balanced budget amendment within a year, if enough states back a process spelled out by the group Compact for America.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who follow state government, the budget is always a topic of conversation. Where will money be spent? How much will be spent on various agencies? Will there be a surplus or deficit? The list goes on and on, but one question that doesn't come up very often is: How is the budget...
Published: Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 8:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who follow state government, the budget is always a topic of conversation. Where will the money be spent? How much will be spent on the various agencies? Will there be a surplus or a deficit? The list goes on and on, but one question that doesn't come up very often is, how is...
Published: Friday, November 14th, 2014 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators have raised teacher pay, set aside money for potential Medicaid cost overruns, and made a major positive change in the state budget process.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 4:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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