The North Carolina state budget, recently enacted, expanded the powers of the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, a body that has been in existence since 1975.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Legislators Now Exempt from Public Records Thanks to New Budget Addition
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 1:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Daily Wire this week filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over its failure to respond to public information requests for documents related to its Community Relations Service.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 11:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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Legislators added a provision to the state budget that would make them functionally exempt from public records law
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Wednesday that “credible sources” have informed lawmakers that information on UFOs has been improperly kept away from Congress.
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2024 @ 9:22 am
By: Daily Wire
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Nearly three months into the fiscal year, a budget bill has finally arrived
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2023 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state Court of Appeals panel will decide whether Charlotte should have produced city council survey results more quickly when WBTV requested those results as public records.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 3:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC Court of Appeals will allow a former Pinehurst Village Council member to proceed with his open-meetings lawsuit against the village. The decision reverses a trial judge.
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 5:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A House lawmaker spoke on Wednesday about military pilots witnessing a high-flying unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) that appeared to transcend “human capability.”
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 8:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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Are they good? Do they belong in the budget?
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A media coalition is backing WBTV's bid at the N.C. Court of Appeals to secure surveys filled out by Charlotte City Council members in 2020.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 11:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Packing policy into budgets harms transparency and accountability
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sub-Saharan Africa plays a critical role in advancing global priorities to the benefit of Africans and Americans.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 3:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to earn a pension larger than President Joe Biden’s salary upon his retirement, further rendering him the highest-paid federal employee in American history, according to a Thursday report from Open The Books.
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 @ 9:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Folwell said some audit firms have been slow in completing local government audits or not communicating or responding to queries about the status of outstanding audits, in turn leaving communities in non-compliance with the state.
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 6:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Outside watchdog reports
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Possible connection to Hunter Biden's business dealings
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 9:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The General Assembly did not conduct any public business this week.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On major issues, such as local governing transparency among many others, "bipartisan" "Republicans" Frankie Waters and John Rebholz join the Democratic Socialists.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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By a vote of 5 to 2, the Beaufort County Commissioners passed a resolution to request that the North Carolina General Assembly decline any requests from the State Board of elections to change the process of Absentee Voting.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 1:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina general assembly will be back in session on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, and much will be asked of them here in this Age of Coronavirus.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new year ushers in new laws in North Carolina. Here are the laws that took effect on Jan. 1.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The $846 million subsidy deal that North Carolina struck with Apple just topped the “year’s worst” list of a nonpartisan economic think tank.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper signed three bills into law Thursday, Dec. 9, but also vetoed three bills.
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly passed an adjournment resolution Monday evening, Nov. 29, coming amid a flurry of other measures making their way through the legislature.
Published: Friday, December 10th, 2021 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 9
Published: Monday, July 19th, 2021 @ 5:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 1
Published: Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 @ 11:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — June 25
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 3:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — June 18
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 9:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Government Transparency Act of 2021 would require that personnel actions of government employees, like public school teachers or county health officials, be described and maintained in public record
Published: Sunday, June 20th, 2021 @ 11:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC Weekly Update — June 11
Published: Friday, June 18th, 2021 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it.
Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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