Finally. The Republican conference budget proposal was finally released earlier today. I’m sure readers are aware of the infighting among Republican lawmakers regarding casino legislation and Medicaid expansion.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 12:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Foundation with $16 billion endowment pledges to fight for immigrants to 'live free of fear, regardless of documentation status'
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2023 @ 8:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us most here in North Carolina, and is distilled for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 7:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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COVID-19 has upended our traditional way of educating kids.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 2:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The coronavirus recession, the Great Lockdown, and the Great Suppression are all terms used to describe the global economic downturn produced by COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2020 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the $23.9 billion General Fund budget for 2018-19, warning Republicans that voters in November’s general election will reject GOP candidates and their policies
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When pollsters ask voters to list the issues they care about most, economic concerns usually rank high on the list - even when unemployment rates are relatively low
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2018 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate's plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate's plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2017 @ 9:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To assess Pat McCrory's four years as governor we must begin in 2012. McCrory was a popular, moderate Charlotte Mayor, leading the Queen City during a time of explosive growth
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 12:49 am
By: Tom Campbell
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What if the conventional wisdom about education in North Carolina were exactly backwards, and it was Republicans who have been more generous in funding our state's schools
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 @ 6:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Approximately 55 percent of North Carolina's $21.9 billion state budget is spent on education. About 70 percent of all money devoted to education is spent on K-12 education
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 10:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Ever since Republicans gained majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 and won the governor's office in 2012, Democrats and Progressives have lamented the decline of higher education and especially the University of North Carolina System. Critics of North Carolina Republicans...
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It's particularly disgusting to see our state's drive-by media try to compare the UNC Board of Governors' decision to shut down a scam on the Chapel Hill campus to McCarthyism or the state's one-time speaker ban.
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 @ 12:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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As we go to press, polls are showing incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan with a slender lead over her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis. And Hagan received a minor bump after Labor Day, no doubt as the result of a host of ads from Hagan and allied groups on education funding...
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just before Labor Day, the publicly available polls of likely voters had incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan roughly tied with her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis. Since Labor Day, the polling average has shifted about three points in Hagan's direction.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just try to implement some kind of frugality in public education budgets. You'll get all kinds of teeth-gnashing, wailing and crying about starving tha lil' chil'ren.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In an editorial earlier this week, News & Observer editors admonished those who seek to slow down the implementation of Common Core Standards and want the state to back out from national testing requirements.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 7:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In the spirit of keeping things simple, the case for reforming North Carolina's medical-assistance programs can be expressed in four numbers: 12, 15, 17, and 48.
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 @ 2:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Bev Perdue wants to "tax the heck" out of sweepstakes business across North Carolina as a means of providing more funding for education.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 6:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Gov. Bev Perdue and liberal activists want to know why their Edu-scare campaign against the Republican-led General Assembly didn't work last year and won't work this year, they need only to consider the insight of essayist Kahil Gibran.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2012 @ 10:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although those involved may wish us to forget, there were actually two attempts over the past year to make a certain statistic, one percent, into a political cause here in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 @ 4:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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