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Yesterday the State Senate approved major charter school legislation. HB 618, passed by the Senate on a straight party-line vote, transfers the right to authorize charter schools from the State Board of Education to the newly-created, Charter School Review Board.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Major charter school legislation moved a step closer to reality on Wednesday as the Senate Education committee approved HB 618 by a party-line voice vote.
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 8:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Trump just achieved energy independence
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 5:10 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Swashbucklers of all ages will converge on the banks of the Tar River, a paradise located in Uptown Greenville, for the 14th annual PirateFest on April 17th and 18th, 2020.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 @ 3:28 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Swashbucklers of all ages will converge on the banks of the Tar River, a paradise located in Uptown Greenville, for the 14th annual PirateFest on April 17th and 18th, 2020.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 7:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Notice how completely the hospital lobbyists wanted to remove Treasurer Folwell from anything having to do with the State Health Plan. He wasn't even made a "voting" member of the Committee to study the Plan and to come up with a "recommended design" for it.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 10:57 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The "anti-Folwell" bill, HB184 made it out of the Health Committee yesterday, putting it on a course to possibly become law. It is a bill that 2 sides see very differently.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), legislators in the House Health Committee will vote on HB184 - a bad bill that will cost taxpayers and State Health Plan members more than $1 million per day if it's enacted.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Ms. Lois Ann Armstrong Boyd, a resident of Archbell Road, Bath, NC passed away Friday, August 18, 2017 at her residence
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 1:08 pm
By: Announcements
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As H.B. 318 protesters arrested in front of the Executive Mansion are set to appear in court, the North Carolina Republican Party questions whether Ken Spaulding and Roy Cooper stand with the protesters and their moral Monday type tactics. Do Ken Spaulding and Roy Cooper support these protesters...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: Chris Downey
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Six people sat down on a Raleigh street - connected by PVC pipe (for some reason) a little while back to protest the actual enforcement of immigration laws by the state.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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During a visit to CPCC in Charlotte yesterday, Roy Cooper continued to dodge tough questions about his support for sanctuary cities. When asked if he would have signed or vetoed H.B. 318 while on the campaign trail, Cooper failed to answer the question...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:01 am
By: Chris Downey
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released the following statement following Governor McCrory signing HB 318 into law, ending sanctuary cities in North Carolina...
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 @ 9:14 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Likely North Carolina voters overwhelmingly favor a measure to restrain the growth rate of state spending. According to the April 2011 Civitas Institute poll, 67 percent of respondents support the ideas contained in HB 188 - which would limit the growth rate of the state budget to a formula based...
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 1:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed the following bills into law.
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 @ 1:43 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Last week the NC House voted unanimously to approve a bill (HB 183) that would repeal in its entirety a contentious piece of legislation known as the Map Act. As I explained in a previous newsletter, when the General Assembly passed the Map Act in 1987 its declared purpose was...
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2015 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jessie Anna Cayton Archbell, age 87, passed away peacefully at DePaul Hospital located in Norfolk, Virginia on October 18, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 @ 3:55 pm
By: Announcements
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Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some "pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site" spilled the beans before the plan could get underway.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2014 @ 9:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement after the overwhelmingly bipartisan passage of a Medicaid reform bill (HB 1181) by the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Published: Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 @ 10:48 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory signed the following bills into law.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week’s “Bad Bill of the Week” is House Bill 188, Early Voting on Weekends.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Known as the Youth Skin Cancer Prevention Act, HB 18 would require all North Carolinians under 18 years of age to have a written prescription from a doctor in order to use a tanning bed, essentially banning all minors from indoor tanning.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Juvenile Age to 18 (HB 632/SB 506), otherwise known as "Raise the Age," seeks to modify the criminal court system by allowing minors (under age 18) charged with most misdemeanors to be tried in juvenile court.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 5:15 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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