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The wait is finally over. North Carolina has a solidified new state budget, and it includes a major victory for families across the state.
Published: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 1:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal dispute over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education funding will head back to a Wake County courtroom on April 13. The new judge overseeing the dispute set that date during his first online meeting Thursday with lawyers involved in the case.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 5:52 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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Gov. Roy Cooper should stop picking winners and losers in business as he reopens North Carolina’s economy, says N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2020 @ 9:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Few people outside the bubble of N.C. state government seem to be paying much attention to the lingering impasse over a vetoed state budget.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 @ 8:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate will conclude its business this week, with or without overriding the governor’s budget veto, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said during a Monday, Oct. 28, news conference.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 4:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly may finally end the months-long budget stalemate and override the governor’s veto of the budget.
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2019 @ 7:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers will continue to consider mini-budgets. For now.
Published: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 @ 5:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Cooper signed the following bills into law: Senate Bill 118, Senate Bill 429, and 3 others
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 1:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina Representative Keith Kidwell (District 79 – Beaufort, Craven) announced today that he has successfully secured several key investments and grants in the state budget compromise for the citizens of District 79 in Eastern North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 11:46 pm
By: Keith D Kidwell
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The North Carolina House of Representatives recently released their budget, and the Senate released their version of the budget last week.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 3:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The battle between the Republican-led General Assembly and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper intensified Tuesday
Published: Saturday, August 12th, 2017 @ 7:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do state politicians have principles? To some cynical academics and activists, the only way this question can have an affirmative answer is to define the term the way comedian Groucho Marx famously did: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others."
Published: Monday, June 13th, 2016 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Early Friday morning, the state Senate approved its version of the $22.2 billion General Fund budget, setting the stage for negotiations with the House on a spending plan that legislative leaders hope will be completed before the new fiscal year begins on July 1.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sixty-plus days past a July 1st deadline and North Carolina still has no state budget. One issue that many think is prolonging the current stalemate is what to do about teacher assistants (TAs). The best way to break the impasse is for the General Assembly to follow the state Senate's lead and...
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Senate leaders' $21.63 billion General Fund budget proposal includes major policy initiatives related to Medicaid, removing responsibility for Medicaid from the state Department of Health and Human Services while creating a Cabinet-level Health Benefits Authority to administer the $14 billion govern
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina state government would boost its savings reserves and set aside more money for infrastructure, while still increasing starting teachers' pay, providing additional tax relief for families, and limiting government spending growth.
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 9:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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News accounts of the recently-passed $21.1 billion General Fund budget focus primarily on the teacher pay raise provided by budget writers.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Teachers finding their schedules packed with testing would get relief from education reforms promised by Gov. Pat McCrory and top Republican lawmakers, who say students would benefit from a streamlined list of required state and local exams.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory signed a $20.6 billion budget today that increases K-12 education funding, incorporates fiscally-responsible tax reform and lays the foundation for economic growth and job creation.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2013 @ 12:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled his first budget Wednesday that would spend $20.6 billion in the next fiscal year, an increase of about 2.2 percent over the current fiscal year's General Fund budget. The total state budget, including...
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 12:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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