The 2020 election season starts unofficially today at noon, with the opening of candidate filing for most races.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2019 @ 10:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It was Nixon who went to China. And now the forces for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina have their own unlikely champion.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 7:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than 500,000 North Carolinians can’t see a doctor when they need one because affordable healthcare is out of reach. Many of these people are in the coverage gap – they make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, yet too little to afford costly private insurance.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Wednesday, January 9, 2019 one-day session featured the swearing in of all legislators who had not already taken their oaths in local ceremonies.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 9:27 pm
By: S. Henri McClees
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Call it a backyard battle between two Wake Forest residents. Democrat Terence Everitt, a lawyer, is challenging three-term incumbent Republican Rep. Chris Malone in a rematch for the N.C. House District 35 seat on Nov. 6. Libertarian Michael Nelson is waging a third-party bid for the job
Published: Sunday, November 4th, 2018 @ 1:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems reasonable to expect that public school students who achieve the highest-level scores on standardized math tests ought to get the first shot at placement in advanced math classes the following year
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill requiring low-income students who score high on end-of-year math tests to automatically be placed in advanced math classes passed unanimously in the House
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Rev. Mark Harris, who lost the 2016 Republican primary in the 9th Congressional District by 144 votes, won a rematch Tuesday with three-term incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State House members continue to push for a constitutional amendment to protect private landowners' from eminent domain seizures for economic development projects
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Local police in North Carolina would have whistleblower protections under a bill introduced in the state House
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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3rd Term House Member Representative Chris Malone (HD-35, Wake County) issued the following statement on being selected as Deputy Majority Whip
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 @ 9:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bipartisanship ruled the day as lawmakers returned Wednesday to begin the 2017 long session of the General Assembly
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2017 @ 12:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even with so many legislative races already decided and so many others that appear to be sure things, Democrats believe they can make inroads into the Republican majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly this year.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 1:05 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Budget writers working on the state's 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the House passing a $21.735 billion General Fund budget by an 81-33 vote early Friday morning, and Gov. Pat McCrory saying he would approve the spending plan, lawmakers will shift their focus to outstanding items such as a $2 billion bond package and Medicaid reform before adjourning.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 7:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With budget negotiations still underway and a third Continuing Resolution that extends funding for essential services until September 18th, it is vital to keep focus on the importance of what the House conferees are advocating for in Raleigh.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Senate Bill 192 (Citations/Sheriffs Accept Faxes) legislation that I'm sponsoring unanimously passed in the House Judiciary IV Committee.
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 3:43 am
By: Bill Cook
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The power of incumbency, gerrymandered election districts, and a growing national distaste for politics in general might be the causes of having voter ballots for the May 6 primary election showing more blanks than the responses to a pop quiz.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH - Shut out of formal power in the state capital for the first time in more than a century, North Carolina Democrats hope that 2014 will mark the beginning of a steady climb back to legislative majorities and the Governor's Mansion by 2016.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The races for only 7 percent of state legislative seats - and no congressional districts - are likely to be competitive this year, say two organizations tracking North Carolina voting trends.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Partisan Index has been updated to show the political balance of power in North Carolina as revealed in the 2012 elections.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2014 @ 9:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Governor signed my Senate Bill 189, amending the homeschool law in NC, into law this past Thursday.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 6:49 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory became North Carolina's third Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first since the 19th century to work with a General Assembly controlled by his own party, as the GOP built on its electoral momentum from 2010.
Published: Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I disagreed with the late Bill Friday on nearly every public policy issue you can imagine. But over two decades of regular phone conversations and occasional meetings, Mr. Friday and I never had a disagreeable moment.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Wake County, the open-seat contest in N.C. House District 35 features two candidates with ties to the Wake County school board, which recently has been roiled with controversy over partisan politics, especially over student assignment policies.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 11:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina was the 30th state to approve language prohibiting gay marriage and the last in the South to do so. Ninety-three of the state's 100 counties had majorities voting in favor of the amendment.
Published: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 @ 5:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Republicans could strengthen their grip on the North Carolina legislature and recapture a majority in the state's congressional delegation in 2012, due in large part to a friendly redistricting plan.
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2012 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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