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On Jan. 15, Coca-Cola Consolidated, headquartered in Charlotte, announced a donation of $25 million to fund the join Duke and UNC children’s hospital project, as the North Carolina Senate seeks to secure $103.5 million in state funding as well.
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 @ 12:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In the final days of state budget negotiations, there was a pressurized hush around the legislative complex as lawmakers feuded over the sudden addition of legalizing four casinos to the nearly $30 billion state budget.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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All news accounts described the recently passed state budget as spending $30 billion
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 1:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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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 $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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Last Wednesday, North Carolina House leadership released a biennial budget proposal that over the next two years would, among other things, increase spending on public schools, raise average teacher pay by more than 10%, and expand school choice.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 7:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, and the North Carolina Senate is scheduled to release its version next before the two chambers meet to establish a conference budget
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government Spending is the True Tax
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s state government revenues continue to exceed expectations. According to the new state budget Director Kristen Walker, revenues for the current fiscal year that began July 1 are 10% higher than expected, as reported by the Associated Press.
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2022 @ 7:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Edgecombe County had the highest overall October unemployment rate at 7.5%
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 1:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Over the last week, the News & Observer and EdNC published articles about a modification to the principal compensation system included in this year’s state budget.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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With state revenue for the current fiscal year now projected to be $4.2 billion higher than originally predicted, state budget writers are sitting on a sizeable stack of funds.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“Set some money aside for a rainy day.” That’s financial advice anyone discussing finances worth their salt would include.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican budget writers in the General Assembly are bristling after the judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case set an arbitrary deadline of Oct. 18 for lawmakers to fund the court-ordered plan.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 4:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, was joined by House budget chairs Monday, Aug. 9, for a news conference outlining the chamber’s biennial proposal.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 3:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A proposed committee substitute for House Bill 951, Modernize Energy Generation was introduced and discussed in the NC House last week.
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Bill 105 will require a second vote Friday morning.
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate rolled out a budget proposal this week that would expand school choice across the state while raising teacher pay and seeking to remedy student learning losses due to closed classrooms because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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From Medicaid changes to increased resources for behavioral health, to higher monetary thresholds for requiring Certificate of Need, the budget bill touches on key healthcare policy issues.
Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 @ 3:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A pay-as-you-go approach to capital projects sets the Senate apart from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, whose budget plan called for a $4.7 billion statewide bond package.
Published: Friday, June 25th, 2021 @ 6:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Cooper’s Budget Proposal Seeks ‘Opportunity in Crisis,’ Pushes for More Spending, Medicaid ExpansionGov. Roy Cooper introduced a $55.9 billion budget proposal on Wednesday, March 24, that includes many of the goals he’s had since taking office.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 8:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s tax and fee collections continued to improve from a year ago, according to the latest General Fund Monthly Report from the Office of the State Controller.
Published: Sunday, December 13th, 2020 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican lawmakers presented a $1 billion COVID-19 package during a Tuesday, Sept. 1, news conference.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2020 @ 12:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Thanks to a decade of wise, conservative fiscal policy, North Carolina state government is better positioned financially to weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus shutdown.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 10:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The majority leader in North Carolina’s state Senate offered his colleagues good advice for this year’s legislative session.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 @ 11:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In late March, I wrote about how North Carolina state government is likely better financially prepared than most states for the coronavirus shutdown, and certainly more prepared than it was prior to the Great Recession.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 8:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Thanks to fiscally responsible measures over the past 10 years, North Carolina is on far better financial footing to combat the coronavirus outbreak and to weather its economic fallout.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 10:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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