All news accounts described the recently passed state budget as spending $30 billion
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 1:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Final Approved Budget for the Fiscal Year 2023-24 is now posted on Beaufort County’s website, BeaufortCountyNC.gov.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 11:55 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The $1.4 billion allocation for a non-profit called NCInnovation in the state Senate’s budget plan has raised some eyebrows. Given that this appropriation to the barely five-year-old non-profit organization would amount to nearly five percent of the entire state General Fund budget, it should.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday night, the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners received the Manager’s Recommended Budget for the Fiscal Year 2023-2024.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 8:47 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Spring Lake's former town finance director faces four years in prison after admitting to embezzling more than $500,000.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 10:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell will not approve payment for Spring Lake's newly hired town manager Justine Jones.
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 @ 9:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The former town manager of Spring Lake, Gay Cameron Tucker, pleaded guilty in September to embezzling more than $500,000 from the town.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina can take a pension away from the period of time that a person is indicted or convicted of embezzlement or a sex crime, etc. under a felony forfeiture law.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 9:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lower income taxes allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money and spend it on their needs
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has one of the best rainy-day funds in the country, according to a Pewstrust.org article.
Published: Monday, August 8th, 2022 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Cooper signed the state’s $27.9 billion budget into law Monday afternoon, avoiding a last-minute deadline.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state auditor’s office found that a former accounting technician in the town of Spring Lake misappropriated more than $430,000 in taxpayer funds for personal use and has referred its report to the FBI and State Bureau of Investigation for a possible criminal investigation.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We’ve heard the characterization plenty of times over the years: Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the working class.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 10:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina breaks top 10 list
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative legislative leadership has held state spending growth in check over the last decade.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A far-left coalition of groups in North Carolina calling itself “NC United for Survival & Beyond” (NCUSB) is back again
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Richard Weaver’s famous book “Ideas have Consequences” has a pithy and poignant title.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Trump administration and congressional leaders are at loggerheads over another COVID-19 relief package that may effectively provide state and local governments with another bailout.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 9:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The turmoil surrounding COVID-19 derailed much of the work the General Assembly had done before the pandemic.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 @ 6:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Teachers and retirees are suffering without a budget in place, two freshman Democratic lawmakers said during a March 10 news conference.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 8:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s the third straight year CJ journalists have been honored by the NCPA and the third straight time CJ has received more awards than the previous year.
Published: Sunday, March 8th, 2020 @ 11:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Don’t despair North Carolina, despite continuing cries the state is without a budget — even after months of consternation, frustration, accusations, political wrangling, and dead–end negotiations.
Published: Friday, January 24th, 2020 @ 6:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly is going home without raising teacher pay and without passing a full budget.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 9:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper always had a strategy that was destined to fail.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 @ 11:18 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The State Judicial Council convened Thursday, Dec. 5, to discuss judicial branch reforms and to push for increased funding.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 11:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A long-anticipated report from an education consulting group suggests North Carolina should boost public school spending by at least $8 billion over the next eight years to satisfy its constitutional obligations.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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General Assembly would have to modify resolution for next week's session or call separate session to schedule overrides before January
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 @ 9:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Jeffrey Elmore, R-Wilkes, said one of his teaching colleagues inadvertently took a pay cut.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican lawmakers are forcing their Democratic colleagues to choose between sustaining Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto or securing higher teacher pay raises.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 11:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate will conclude its business this week, with or without overriding the governor’s budget veto, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said during a Monday, Oct. 28, news conference.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 4:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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