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joins West Virginia and Montana in ending Renewable Portfolio standards
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2024 @ 11:04 am
By: John Steed
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson comes out with a significant lead in a hypothetical primary GOP race for governor.
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 @ 8:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Donald Trump and Senator Thom Tillis led Republicans to strong victories across the state in Council of State, judicial and legislative races.
Published: Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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 N.C. House Rules Committee rejected on a voice vote a proposal to limit the number of days a veto override vote could remain in limbo on the House's calendar
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 9:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the 115th Congress convenes in early January, North Carolina's delegation is poised to play a prominent role in charting a post-Obama course on a host of policy issues
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 10:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Republican Party today released the following statement in honor of National School Choice Week...
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 12:30 pm
By: Chris Downey
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North Carolina features "undoubtedly the premier governor's race of the country" for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval ratings, said Tom Jensen, director of the Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 6:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was paid $1.35 million since last May for three speaking engagements for a network marketing company that has been accused of being nothing more than a pyramid scheme.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 1:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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House Republicans are taking another whack at ending subsidies attached to government-mandated purchases of renewable energy. House Bill 681 would require solar and other "green" power to compete with traditional fuel sources in the government-regulated electricity industry and determine the energy
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2015 @ 12:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan's reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015 or the political races of 2016.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240 research centers scattered among the system campuses. It recommends further review of only 13 and closure of just three.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since conservatives won majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly and began reducing taxes, spending, and state regulation, liberals have predicted doom.
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Democrat named Arthur Williams represented the Outer Banks-centered Sixth District in the North Carolina House from 2003-2011. During that time, he was a good Democrat — a good soldier for then Senate boss Marc Basnight and then-House speaker Jim Black.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 9:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The N.C. Supreme Court says the state can commence administrative preparations for the Opportunity Scholarship Program while it considers an appeal from a lower court's order that ruled the program unconstitutional.
Published: Friday, December 19th, 2014 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Supreme Court is likely to decide the "tremendously important" separation-of-powers lawsuit filed by Gov. Pat McCrory against General Assembly leaders over appointive powers to legislatively created commissions, former Justice Bob Orr says.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 1:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two aspects of the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Months ago, as the 2014 election cycle was shaping up as a good one for Republicans, the Democrats in North Carolina resolved to buck the trend. They had a great deal of help
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate contests nationally, Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis of Mecklenburg County knocked off incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan in a race capping a night that saw the GOP seize the majority in the upper chamber, unifying control of Congress.
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 8:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education is the campaign focus as the North Carolina House District 118 race heads toward the finish line.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I seriously can’t understand the logic behind having TWO prominent Republican leaders go public – right in front of a HUGE election — with their desire to expand Medicaid.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The newest Civitas Poll showed state House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican, with a slight edge over Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in voters' views of the U.S. Senate candidates.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:22 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yep. That's the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the biggest motivating factors in politics is anger.
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 9:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan did her best at a debate Thursday night to portray North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis as a crony of corporate CEOs seeking tax favors at the expense of the middle class and poor people who would take that practice to Washington.
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 5:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Kay Hagan's husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's 2014 general election will take place under the election laws enacted last year by the General Assembly as the result of a ruling late Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A mere 22 days before the start of early voting and with 4 million voter guides in the mail to North Carolina residents, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the state cannot enforce...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1781, Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis of the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene in a brief but critical Revolutionary War skirmish later known as the Battle of the Guilford Court House.
Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As we go to press, polls are showing incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan with a slender lead over her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis. And Hagan received a minor bump after Labor Day, no doubt as the result of a host of ads from Hagan and allied groups on education funding...
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radios are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation. Or they attack with a sensational
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now, it appears WCNC in Charlotte has found one more questionable scenario involving Tillis, some wealthy donors, their real estate deals, and the proposed I-77 toll lane project enthusiastically backed by Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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