A backroom deal will result in a multi-million dollar boondoggle
Published: Monday, May 13th, 2024 @ 6:16 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The suit alleges that BlackRock is 'deceiving consumers' about its leftwing agenda
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 10:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed two bills including one that would prevent state pension money from being invested using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in state investment decisions.
Published: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 8:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers vote to ban ESG investing in state pension plans, pushback on plans to tap Mandy Cohen for head of the federal Centers for Disease Control, and Fort Bragg gets a name change
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Taxes collected from all the people should be spent only for the benefit of all of the people, not selected groups.
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 8:28 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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After nearly half of a decade, Congressional Democrats finally released former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns and you won’t believe what happened next!
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 3:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former Vice President Al Gore lambasted Vanguard following the company’s decision to sever ties with the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative on Wednesday.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 1:35 am
By: Daily Wire
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South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis intends to pull the state’s remaining $200 million of holdings in asset management company BlackRock by the end of the year.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 8:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former President Bill Clinton and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink discussed the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement during a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:30 am
By: Daily Wire
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financial firm puts ''woke'' ESG political agenda ahead of fiduciary duties
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Steed
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‘Full-On Battle Mode’: Conservative Leaders Put Walmart On Notice For Promising To Pay For Abortions'We are shelving our polite silence and in full-on battle mode.'
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 6:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Members Also Vote to Approve Series of Infrastructure, Building Projects
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell wants Congress to allow state pension funds to seek damages through U.S. courts. His requested change in federal law could lead to seizure of Russian assets and properties.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 9:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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First, I want to thank Commissioner Hood Richardson for bringing Sheriff Coleman's out of control spending and abuse of the overtime budget line item to my attention.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 1:48 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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I regret to inform you that I will not be in attendance at the meeting this evening.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 8:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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I do not know of anyone who has an unlimited supply of money.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 12:30 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioners voted to form a committee to "investigate the jail situation". The committee is empowered to look at all alternatives. This sounds good until one examines the whole situation.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2020 @ 8:17 am
By: Hood Richardson
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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: Saturday, October 12th, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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What is it about birthdays that make you reflect on what has been and think about what’s to come? The birthday I recently observed wasn’t one of those milestone events, but after you pass your seventh decade, every year should be both a celebration and a time for reflection.
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2019 @ 11:22 am
By: Tom Campbell
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About half of the jail is shut down at an unbudgeted cost oaf about $2,500 per day.
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2019 @ 7:50 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell summoned the state's key health care players to a roundtable and instructed them to help the State Health Plan save $300 million each of the next five years
Published: Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 @ 7:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants UNC Health Care to post a $1 billion performance bond guaranteeing medical costs would not increase for State Health Plan participants, or hit state taxpayers in the wallet, if the system enters into a proposed partnership with Carolinas HealthCare
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's pension plan value surpassed $100 billion for the first time in recent days, but volatility in the stock market has eroded a chunk of the gains, state Treasurer Dale Folwell reported
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 12:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thanks to a recent donation to the College of Business, the Student Pirate Investment Fund is set to go live
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 12:39 am
By: ECU News Services
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Even though Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to expand North Carolina’s Medicaid program unilaterally has been halted in federal court, some GOP lawmakers say they are open to considering a limited enrollment increase
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2017 @ 5:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday December 21, 2016 Judge Gregory McGuire heard the complaints filed some of the stock holders against the Pantego Creek, LLC managers.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 1:28 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Students could face punishment, including the possibility of expulsion, for engaging in conscious acts stifling the First Amendment rights of others, and the UNC system would be required to implement free speech rules, under a plan Lt. Gov. Dan Forest hopes to turn into law.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tethered in a warm embrace, this delicate waltz of Hillary B. and committed Democrats, may prove disastrous in 2016, and beyond for today's Socialist /Liberal.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 12:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An advocacy group has raised concerns about a nine-month old law that they say places an undue financial hardship on some charter schools.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 @ 2:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tough decisions need to be made during this legislative session, but are they being made in the best interest of the taxpayer or in the spirit of efficient government? Two questions came before the House Finance and Appropriations committees on Tuesday, a change to the state's gasoline tax as...
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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But turning the ship of higher education around is a herculean task (we at the Pope Center are engaged in the same enterprise-ACTA's president, Anne Neal, serves on our academic advisory council-so we know). Furthermore, the context of the university is changing in unpredictable ways.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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