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Today, Governor Cooper vetoed House Bill 600, which would provide further regulatory relief for North Carolina families and businesses.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 3:15 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Yesterday a House Judiciary Committee held discussions about a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment to restrain state budget growth.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"This is proof positive that North Carolina politicians and bureaucrats are prepared to trample on the rights of private property owners in order to benefit favored business interests,” said Jon Guze, Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the John Locke Foundation.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania, and North Carolina House Republicans held a press conference supporting a bill making North Carolina the 20th state to call for a Convention of States.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 6:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Thursday, a bipartisan group of North Carolina legislators announced they would introduce legislation to add two seats to the N.C. Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 9:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina would face a new limit on state government spending growth under the Taxpayer Protection Act legislation filed Monday in the N.C. House.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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On Tuesday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced committee assignments for House members of the 2023-24 legislative biennium.
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2023 @ 5:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A supermajority of the N.C. House has approved a proposed constitutional amendment to strengthen private property rights against eminent domain land takings.
Published: Saturday, March 27th, 2021 @ 7:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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You may remember from School House Rock that the way an idea becomes a law is it is introduced to the legislature as a bill and passed through the legislative process.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2020 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you wear a skimpy swimsuit on North Carolina’s Kure Beach, you’re a criminal.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 7:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2019 @ 3:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 3:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 584, Criminal Law Reform, is another attempt to clean up North Carolina’s mishmash of criminal laws. Picking through the disarray is proving a slow process for lawmakers.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 8:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Lawmakers in the House are working to give the Senate some options for changing how school performance grades are calculated, including one change that would split the single performance grade into two separate grades for achievement and growth.
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2019 @ 8:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Despite vigorous arguments from opponents, the N.C. Farm Act of 2018 became law over Gov. Roy Cooper's objections
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 4:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a bill into law that begins cleaning up North Carolina's criminal code
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 8:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two weeks ago, both houses of the N.C. General Assembly voted unanimously to approve House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2018 @ 2:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly unanimously approved House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 5:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's entirely possible for people to commit a crime in North Carolina without even realizing it
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2017 @ 10:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, has resurrected legislation to create a task force to identify and eliminate regulations harming the state's economic climate and stunting business growth
Published: Friday, March 31st, 2017 @ 5:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) today announced that CS Carolina will expand its presence in Alamance County
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 2:32 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Prescient will establish a 205-job operations center in Alamance County to serve its East Coast customer base
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2016 @ 1:46 am
By: McCrory Communications
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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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An amended version of the regulatory reform bill (HB 760), sponsored by Reps. Chris Millis (R-Pender), John R. Bell IV (R-Wayne), and Dennis Riddell (R-Alamance), would make several changes that would protect electricity consumers in North Carolina from unnecessary price increases.
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2015 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Education Endowment is a special fund created in 2014 to help supplement teacher compensation for North Carolina's highest performing teachers.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that CS Carolina, Inc. is expanding operations in Alamance County.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory and Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Cambro Manufacturing Company is locating its North Carolina manufacturing operations in Alamance County.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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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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