Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday announced plans to provide over $60 million to help homeowners rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Ian, and took a swipe at FEMA for not kicking into the program.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In a desperate attempt to get help for its citizens and deal with the growing humanitarian crisis in the area, a Florida town devastated by Hurricane Ian has taken the unusual step of raising the Ukrainian flag, hoping to convince Congress to send aid.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 11:22 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Vice President Kamala Harris (D) was confronted over the weekend in response to controversial racial remarks that she made late last week about distributing relief aid in responses to natural disasters.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 8:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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New courses are the first of their kind for NC nurses
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 8:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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Why does our School Board not stop this?
Published: Sunday, June 6th, 2021 @ 7:51 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Despite his over a three-decade career in public office, Governor Roy Cooper utterly failed to administer the Hurricane Matthew recovery process.
Published: Friday, October 16th, 2020 @ 7:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The House is wasting little time addressing the challenges COVID-19 has posed to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 2:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The $34,800,795.75 grant will be used for beach and dune replenishment caused by Hurricane Florence
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2019 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the season of giving at hand and Giving Tuesday 2019 right around the corner, it is a great time for state employees to consider volunteer work with groups that are helping hurricane-impacted areas recover and rebuild.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2019 @ 5:06 am
By: Governor's Office
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The N&O this weekend published an editorial declaring that North Carolina’s corporate income tax cuts are “not working.”
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Outside consultants can get a bad rap. Often they deserve it. They might recommend cookie-cutter solutions to problems while failing to account for important, unique local factors.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 9:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat others, including those whom they hold political or professional power over.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 8:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The House Appropriations Committee has passed a more than $250-million hurricane relief bill that places a greater emphasis on resilience and disaster mitigation.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @ 11:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Republican Party Communications Director Jeff Hauser released the following statement in response to the press conference by House Minority Leader Rep. Darren Jackson
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 3:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined leaders at the N.C. General Assembly to discuss the state administration’s slow pace of federal assistance to the victims of Hurricane Matthew
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 4:27 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis was flanked by N.C. House Speaker Moore, N.C. Senator Berger, and other eastern North Carolina Republican leaders as they highlighted the unacceptable pace at which Governor Cooper has allocated disaster relief for North Carolinians
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ 6:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sixth-year head coach Cliff Godwin formally announced ECU baseball's 20-man incoming class Friday, which features six position players, 12 pitchers and a pair of two-way players.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 4:46 am
By: ECU Sports
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Gov. Cooper has appointed the following individual to the North Carolina State Board of Elections
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 5:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper shared the following comment after the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the upcoming Federal Register for $168 million in hurricane recovery mitigation funds for North Carolina.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 12:51 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina may soon see $168 million in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery, after more than a year-long delay.
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2019 @ 9:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper continues to hold up progress on North Carolina’s state budget – holding it hostage over liberal Medicaid expansion with no guarantee of continued federal dollars.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 7:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has been 25 days since Governor Cooper vetoed the bipartisan $24 billion state budget because it does not include his demands for expanding government-run Medicaid in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 3:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After several starts and stops, on Tuesday, July 9, the N.C. House failed to vote on an override of the governor’s budget bill.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As N.C. legislators prepare to consider overriding Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of their 2019-21 budget deal, Republican senators are drawing attention to funding priorities threatened by the veto.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders today offered Republican leadership a state budget compromise proposal that would close the health care coverage gap, raise teacher pay, cut taxes for people and guarantee school construction while balancing the budget and saving money in the Rainy Day Fund
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Co-chairmen of the House Select Committee on Disaster Relief panned sluggish hurricane relief efforts by the Cooper administration. They want renewed oversight authority.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 3:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Our legislature has been in session since January 30th and at last count 17 bills had been approved by both houses of the legislature and sent to Governor Cooper’s desk for approval or veto.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 2:37 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Lawmakers return to Raleigh next week for the 2019 session of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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State budget writers have more challenges than normal as they prepare for the next biennium. First, there are economic headwinds from tariff and trade wars and a broader concern about when the next recession will arrive
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 @ 12:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced 40 new appointments to various North Carolina boards and commissions
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2018 @ 11:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Nobody knows when a hurricane or a recession will hit North Carolina, but everybody knows they will
Published: Friday, December 21st, 2018 @ 5:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that Democrats have erased the GOP's veto-proof majorities for the 2019 legislative session, Republican lawmakers could try to rush initiatives through a lame duck legislative session scheduled for Nov. 27, a top political observer says
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 @ 2:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative leaders plan to allocate $794 million for Hurricane Florence disaster relief when they return to special session on Monday, Oct. 15
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 2:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 12:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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