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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law:
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law:
Published: Thursday, September 7th, 2023 @ 7:17 am
By: Governor's Office
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An undercover video from a conservative news outlet reveals that several public school districts across North Carolina are teaching topics connected to Critical Race Theory.
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2023 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill meant to curb the teaching of elements of Critical Race Theory in public school classrooms fell short of gaining any Democrat support in the North Carolina House on March 22.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 3:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republicans moved a bill through the House Education Committee on March 14 that would prohibit the teaching of Critical Race Theory in North Carolina public school classrooms.
Published: Friday, April 7th, 2023 @ 11:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill that won approval by the House Education Committee on March 14 would give North Carolina public school districts more leeway in creating disciplinary policies in classrooms.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 11:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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would require teaching of both sides of contested historical narratives
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Steed
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson reformed state election laws on Wednesday by banning mail-in ballots and requiring all registered voters to show a photo ID in order to cast a ballot.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 10:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Along with the rest of the nation, North Carolina is facing an unprecedented health challenge with the COVID-19 virus.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 12:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Advanced-practice nurses, federal officials say regulation limits access to health care and increases costs
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 @ 2:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Hospitals have called the treasurer’s bluff. The deadline for hospital signups onto the State Health Plan expired Monday, yet the plan remains bereft of major hospital networks.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 5:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Roughly a week after State Treasurer Dale Folwell sweetened the State Health Plan, major hospitals don’t seem tempted by the treasurer’s latest carrot.
Published: Sunday, August 4th, 2019 @ 10:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Cooper signed the following bills into law:
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 10:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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As hospitals fight cost-cutting reforms to the State Health Plan, State Treasurer Dale Folwell remains undaunted.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 @ 5:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There has been no shortage of debate on health care issues in the North Carolina General Assembly this session. One of those receiving quite a bit of attention is State Treasurer Dale Folwell's Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 7:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With a deadline just 13 days away, Community Care Physician Network, North Carolina’s largest network of independent physician clinics, announced Monday, June 17, it signed on to the State Health Plan’s cost-cutting Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fresh off N.C. Department of Insurance approval of cost-reducing reforms, Treasurer Dale Folwell is optimistic doctors and hospitals will join a new State Health Plan provider network.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The state House passed a bill Wednesday, April 3, limiting State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s plans to make the State Health Plan more solvent. But the bill may not get a hearing in the Senate, letting Folwell move forward.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Folwell is locked in a heated battle with state hospitals, health systems, doctors, and legislative supporters of House Bill 184, which is slated for a House floor vote Wednesday, April 3.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 3:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If Medicaid expansion forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for a service that was either previously paid for some other way or not consumed in the first place, there is no reduction in the cost of care.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A plan by State Treasurer Dale Folwell to reform the nearly insolvent State Health Plan faces legislative pushback, prodded by hospitals and large medical providers.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The House Health Committee overwhelmingly approved a bill blocking State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s controversial State Health Plan reforms while moving up a deadline to study alternatives.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 3:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Dr. Mike Waldrum, CEO of Vidant Health and chair of the North Carolina Healthcare Association (NCHA) Board of Trustees, spoke about Stand Up For ENC at this afternoon's Power Luncheon hosted by the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As North Carolina's population ages, and demands for health care rise, nurses need the freedom to do more
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Republicans beat back several attempts Wednesday by Democrats to expand the regulatory scope of a bill dealing with the GenX contaminant dumped into the lower Cape Fear River region, as the measure passed 116-0.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2018 @ 12:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medical researchers should be allowed to dive "into the weeds," a handful of U.S. senators who want to roll back regulations for marijuana studies say
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper signed the following bills into law
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 2:23 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A compromise vehicle for the controversial "bathroom bill" could exact political consequences on Republican General Assembly leaders and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, one political analyst says
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2017 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper issued the following statement on H.B. 186
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 @ 10:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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Guess what! Another budget extension has been passed by the General Assembly. Which means North Carolina is still without a spending plan for the current fiscal year. North Carolina's fiscal year began July 1st, with the state continuing operations under a temporary spending plan.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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