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Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a $24.5 billion state General Fund budget for 2018-19 that freezes scheduled drops in corporate and some personal income tax rates
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2018 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic challenger Linda Coleman repeatedly attempted Tuesday night to paint a dismal picture of public education in North Carolina, but Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest countered with a list of Republican spending increases and expanded school choice options that he said put the state on the right
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 6:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During a campaign stop in what has long been the least unionized state in the country
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2016 @ 2:30 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Frustration with the rising cost of health care gave politicians the ammo they needed to hang this ObamaCare monstrosity around our necks.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A Democrat named Arthur Williams represented the Outer Banks-centered Sixth District in the North Carolina House from 2003-2011. During that time, he was a good Democrat — a good soldier for then Senate boss Marc Basnight and then-House speaker Jim Black.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 9:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Education is the campaign focus as the North Carolina House District 118 race heads toward the finish line.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nothing undercuts the enjoyment of watching football (Go Steelers!) on a Sunday afternoon more than tiresome political ads, particularly those pro-Kay Hagan ads that employ "political sleight of hand" to substantiate claims of funding cuts to public education in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I believe South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson would like to have a word with the Hagan campaign, state and national Democrats, and their lackeys in the drive-by media.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 9:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It was late in the game. The House was at bat to take its cut at the state budget. The State Senate team had thrown them a wicked curveball. Did the House have the skill and the moxie to respond in this modern-day "Casey-at-the-bat" scenario?
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 11:35 am
By: Tom Campbell
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State Sen. Gladys Robinson is facing her stiffest election test to date in the May 6 Democratic primary for District 28 as she squares off against former Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston.
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Representative Paul Tine announced his re-election bid for the North Carolina General Assembly today. Tine will run for re-election in House District 6, which covers Dare, Hyde, Washington, and parts of Beaufort County.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 6:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I was out at a social gathering last night, when I overheard a conversation that bothered me. These were some folks I know - low info voters who are moderate to conservative in their politics - who I know voted for Pat McCrory in 2012.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Vladimir Lenin said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Professional educrats (education bureaucrats) and their buddies in the mainstream media have taken this quote to heart.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 6:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In Wake County, the open-seat contest in N.C. House District 35 features two candidates with ties to the Wake County school board, which recently has been roiled with controversy over partisan politics, especially over student assignment policies.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 11:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some of the Democrats in the General Assembly have already begun The Whine about the "devastating cuts" Republicans are making to the UNC system. That's foolishness. They should, in fact, be much more substantial.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 2:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While Republican Senate leader Phil Berger introduced a comprehensive education reform package at the opening of this year's short legislative session, his GOP House colleagues are offering more limited, targeted changes in school policy.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2012 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's been a lot of talk recently about education funding in North Carolina. But if you want to know the truth about school budgets, there's no better place to go than local superintendents. This video shows that superintendents across North Carolina know that there's a problem.
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2012 @ 11:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When pressed to either make cuts in spending, and making better decisions to make wiser decisions in the allocation of our People's scarce resources, Democrats will evoke certain images to assuage any brief consideration of a more practical path.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2012 @ 3:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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High school graduation rates improved in 2011, increasing to 77.7 percent, the highest four-year graduation rate ever reported in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2011 @ 6:09 pm
By: Anna Deatherage
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