Bob Stephens, chief legal counsel for Governor Pat McCrory released a statement following an ethics complaint filed today...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:22 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that initial payments will be mailed to the victims of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. The payments were made possible when Governor McCrory signed the budget bill that included funding championed by former Representative Larry Womble and other legislators.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm
By: Chris Downey
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An important deadline for compensating victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program may pass with very few victims qualifying. That isn't good news.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An important deadline for compensating victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program may pass with very few victims qualifying. That isn't good news.
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For fiscal year 2014-15, North Carolina's General Fund budget rose 2.2 percent to $21.1 billion.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have heard it time and time again. Teachers are demoralized, depressed, and dissatisfied. If lawmakers do not do something fast, then thousands of teachers will leave the state or the profession.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory discussed new and ongoing initiatives to power the economy, improve education and increase state government efficiency in 2014 during a news conference Monday at the Executive Residence with his cabinet.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 4:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Universities for a very long time have been based on trust." So said the provost of the University of North Carolina, commenting on a report that a course taken mostly by intercollegiate athletes had never actually met. Dozens of other courses may have been similarly fraudulent, and a criminal...
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 9:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Major college sports like football and basketball produce revenue streams in the billions. In recent years, the NCAA, powerhouse conferences, teams, television stations, and coaches have profited at an unprecedented rate. In North Carolina, for example, the highest-paid public official is not...
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A new performance audit shows that the N.C. Industrial Commission has been lax in monitoring data to make sure North Carolina businesses are keeping up with their duty to provide workers' compensation insurance for their employees.
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much has changed for the good concerning North Carolina's regulatory environment with the passage of the Regulatory Reform Act (RRA) of 2011, tort reform, medical malpractice reform, and workers' compensation reform.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I observed yesterday, the new budget plan for 2012-13 contains many good provisions. I admit to being frustrated, however, at the unwillingness of conferees to include $10 million to compensate victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly has completed its work on the state's nearly $20.2 billion General Fund budget. It's now on Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's desk.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House and Senate budget negotiators have reached a compromise $20.2 billion General Fund budget deal for the upcoming fiscal year that provides 1.2 percent raises to state employees and teachers while restoring $251 million in previous cuts to public education.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 3:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From 1929 to 1974, more than 7,000 forced sterilizations were performed in North Carolina. The state-sponsored Eugenics Board, which was responsible for ordering sterilizations sanctioned by the government, was not abolished until 1977.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Victims of the state's forced sterilization program moved a step closer to getting $50,000 in compensation apiece after the House Judiciary Committee gave its blessing to the proposal on Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives make a point that conservatives ought to take to heart: taxes are far from the only factors that households and businesses take into consideration when deciding where to live, work, invest, shop, or create new businesses.
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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