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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) urged thousands of pro-life demonstrators at the March for Life on Friday in Washington, D.C., to help cultivate a culture of life and continue to support women who may be considering abortions.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 6:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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After months of doorknocking, fundraising, TV ads, polling, and direct mail, the results for the 2022 midterm elections are in, and a new North Carolina congressional delegation will now head to Capitol Hill ahead of a new congressional session starting on January 3, 2023.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 1:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Republican Rep. Dan Bishop said the prolonged battle over the Speaker of the House helped the GOP “advance the ball.”
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: Daily Wire
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U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry, representing North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District, has been officially named the new chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, after serving on the committee since first elected in 2005.
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 7:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Democrats are going to defy President Biden by joining House Republicans to jettison the requirement for military service members to get the COVID vaccine, according to a new report.
Published: Saturday, December 10th, 2022 @ 1:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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And interstate compacts may be one way to protect business
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 3:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest projection from elections-analysis site FiveThirtyEight is that Republicans have an 85% chance of winning a majority in the U.S. House.
Published: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 4:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Elon Musk is the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, as well as the leader of several smaller pet projects, such as Neuralink and The Boring Company. Following his acquisition of Twitter, one of the world’s largest social media platforms, the multibillionaire gave the world a view into just how bus
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2022 @ 12:58 pm
By: Daily Wire
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N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says the governor’s long-running COVID state of emergency is now the “status quo.”
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 7:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For more than a decade, Republicans have controlled operations of North Carolina’s General Assembly.
Published: Friday, March 19th, 2021 @ 9:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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COVID-19 and the ongoing fallout from the pandemic will likely dominate the 2021-22 session of the General Assembly.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2021 @ 12:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Critical lessons continue to come out of the results of the 2020 elections. One that seems to have escaped some of the political establishment is North Carolinians don’t want one political party to dominate.
Published: Thursday, December 10th, 2020 @ 1:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This year’s election had record voter turnout.
Published: Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Problems with policing and race relations must be dealt with, North Carolina’s leading politicians say.
Published: Sunday, June 14th, 2020 @ 8:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Twenty-five years ago, Robert Leandro and his mother, Kathleen Leandro, lent their name to one of the most significant education lawsuits in North Carolina history.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 11:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, the Education Law Center published "Making the Grade 2019," a report that focuses exclusively on three categories of public school inputs: funding levels, distribution, and effort using data from the 2016-17 school year.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In June, the Republican-dominated General Assembly passed a state budget that included pay increases for our public school teachers and for non-certified school personnel.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 3:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina’s state government entered its 2019-20 fiscal year on July 1 without a new state budget in place. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led legislature haven’t agreed to one, yet.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Do you find divided government frustrating or exhilarating? Either way, you might as well get used to it. North Carolina is likely to be a political battleground for many years to come.
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2019 @ 10:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senators voted 32-14 after testy debate on Wednesday, June 27, to pass House Bill 913, which creates a Bipartisan Board of Ethics and Elections Enforcement
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2018 @ 12:35 am
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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Gov. Roy Cooper took three strikes in Wake County Superior Court this week as judges ruled in favor of the General Assembly in a continuing battle over separation of powers
Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2018 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare leaves the fate of free-market health reforms unclear
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Divided government has its benefits. North Carolina voters and taxpayers are seeing some of those benefits on display now on Jones Street in Raleigh
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 7:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Timing matters, in both stand-up comedy and interpreting statistical trends
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After an extremely close series of elections that inflamed passions on both sides of the aisle, the Republican legislature has proposed something we can all agree on
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 3:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Despite the 4th Circuit decision striking down the NC Voter ID law, there are options that our Governor, Pat McCrory, and our state legislature can take to provide reasonable and common-sense measures at polling places next month.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The 2nd Congressional District technically may be an open seat, but Republican nominee George Holding is a two-term incumbent seeking a third term
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 1:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's fair to say that America has not had a true majority party since about 1968
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been writing here for quite a few months in the hopes of broadening the scope of a most conservative e-magazine.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:21 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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First-term U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger faces a challenge from Michael Steinberg in the Republican primary for the 9th Congressional District.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that the General Assembly has made it clear North Carolina will not set up state insurance exchanges or expand Medicaid under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, I'm going to remind Carolina Journal readers what they know about the complicated issues involved that readers and viewers of...
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Because much of my national writing on politics centers on state governors and legislatures, I am on the email lists for Democratic and Republican committees aimed at increasing their party's power in state capitals.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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