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In a previous research brief, I wrote about how existing nuclear power plants produce “zero emissions while at the same time being the most reliable and lowest-cost source of electricity.”
Published: Saturday, November 27th, 2021 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. House has approved a measure that could pave the way for ending the state’s twice-a-year ritual of setting clocks forward and back.
Published: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. GOP Chairman Michael Whatley says former President Trump will inevitably cast a long shadow in North Carolina politics for the foreseeable future.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 @ 4:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In public and behind the scenes, there’s a lot of movement on both sides of the aisle as candidates prepare to enter the race to succeed retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, setting up competitive primaries and a general election race in 2022.
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2021 @ 12:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's a feature in reporting about solar energy to discuss how dramatically its costs have declined.
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2019 @ 7:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, denied claims from Democrats and some media outlets that he helped carry out a plan to mislead House Democrats into not showing up to an early morning session so House Republicans could more easily pass a veto override of the budget.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, wants to throw a lifeline to as many as 20 rural hospitals that are headed toward insolvency.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 8:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican senators are making one last push to ease anti-competitive health-care laws before the legislative session ends.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in North Carolina’s high-profile partisan gerrymandering case offered an excellent lesson about the limits of judicial power. It’s a lesson that should come in handy soon for state judges.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the biennial budget bill, saying North Carolina residents are dying because Republicans won’t expand Medicaid rolls.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 1:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a landmark victory for N.C. Republican lawmakers, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled gerrymandered congressional districts are a political issue, which federal courts should not decide as a matter of law.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 3:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The largest physicians group in eastern North Carolina has agreed to participate in State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s cost-saving Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday, June 26, signed of pair of alcohol-related bills into law.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 3:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Our immigration system is clearly broken. The consequences are evident on our borders, in our judicial system, and right here in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senators opposing North Carolina’s onerous certificate-of-need laws have no plans to stop pushing reforms.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 12:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders are calling Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget bluff.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 1:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Benefit or boondoggle? That’s the billion-dollar question.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 7:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Just days after warning of the need to regulate solar panel disposal, Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, scrapped his bill for a relaxed version.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper finally sat down with Republican legislative leaders Wednesday, June 19, less than two weeks before the end of the fiscal year, to negotiate a budget.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections said cybersecurity worries prompted a delay in certifying election system vendors to sell voting machines to counties.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 @ 9:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With a deadline just 13 days away, Community Care Physician Network, North Carolina’s largest network of independent physician clinics, announced Monday, June 17, it signed on to the State Health Plan’s cost-cutting Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources voted Thursday, June 13, to send Senate Bill 568 to the Finance Committee amid protests from some committee members.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If all the solar panels from industrial-scale electric plants in North Carolina were laid end to end, they would stretch from Raleigh to San Francisco and back nearly four times.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While North Carolina continues to seek ways to fill medical provider voids across the state, government regulations block one partial solution.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2019 @ 4:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell has clashed with Vidant Health in the past over state resources and State Health Plan reforms, but isn’t involved in the current battle between the hospital chain and the UNC Board of Governors over control of Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2019 @ 10:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Co-chairmen of the House Select Committee on Disaster Relief panned sluggish hurricane relief efforts by the Cooper administration. They want renewed oversight authority.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 3:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate passed its version of a $23.9 billion 2019-20 budget amid sharp rhetoric that broke along partisan and regional divides.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Auditor Beth Wood says passage of her agency bill to help clean up local governments’ slipshod financial bookkeeping is a major win for taxpayers across the state.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 8:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate’s proposed biennial budget includes the largest pay raises for state employees in more than a decade, but doesn’t include a cost-of-living increase for state retirees.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 9:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections wants to pay incoming Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell nearly $30,000 more than her predecessor Kim Strach.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fresh off N.C. Department of Insurance approval of cost-reducing reforms, Treasurer Dale Folwell is optimistic doctors and hospitals will join a new State Health Plan provider network.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation wants to build a $340 million casino in Kings Mountain. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opposes the competition.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 4:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate approved the Tax Reduction Act of 2019 on a 28-13 vote on Monday, May 20, and sent it to the House. Last Thursday, the bill passed its initial vote by a 26-19 margin.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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