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The retrial on bribery and fraud charges for former top NC political donor Greg Lindberg has been delayed to April or May 2024. It had been scheduled for November.
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A motion filed this week in federal court could indicate another delay in the federal retrial of Greg Lindberg on bribery and fraud charges.
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2020 @ 6:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Our political process is under tremendous pressure, no question. In North Carolina and beyond, politics has been overly coarsened, polarized, and trivialized. But the system isn’t irreparably broken.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 7:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper claims to have won the governor's race, incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says votes remain uncounted that could reverse Cooper's razor-thin margin, and several Council of State races swung from Democratic to GOP control in Tuesday's historic general electi
Published: Sunday, January 1st, 2017 @ 7:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A stunning election night ended with several election races - including the contest for governor - unresolved, even as Republicans Donald Trump and Richard Burr scored significant victories and the GOP retained its supermajority status in the General Assembly
Published: Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recommendation that the state might impose ethics-related restrictions on secondary employment and corporate board memberships on the state treasurer - and possibly other Council of State officers - drew a mixed response from those officials
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is concerned that insurers "have left health insurance markets in droves due to the increased burdens" of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 3:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Six years ago today, amid glowing promises of cost-cutting and expanded health care for all, President Obama signed into law his signature Affordable Care Act
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's Democrat Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin publicly denounced Obamacare Tuesday, sharing his concerns over the law's harmful impact on the marketplace and North Carolina families. While Commissioner Goodwin joins the chorus of experts and officials voicing their opposition to...
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2016 @ 12:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Despite recent legislation easing some restrictions on the marketplace, North Carolina's rate-setting structure for car insurance is little more than a government price-fixing scheme that hits consumers in the wallet while protecting the profits of some insurance companies, a consumer advocate...
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 1:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gasoline taxes would drop while vehicle use taxes and auto registration fees would rise under a broad House plan aimed at boosting the budget for highway maintenance, bridge repair, and port maintenance.
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) filed a comprehensive property insurance reform bill, SB 208, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 9:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Election Day 2014, the political prognosticators began laying bets on what will happen by Election Day 2016. At the national level, attention quickly focused on the seemingly endless parade of Republicans seeking to take on Hillary Clinton.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the Catawba Indian Nation awaits a ruling from the U.S. Department of the Interior on acquiring land in Cleveland County to build a $340 million resort/casino, it is battling in South Carolina courts to create a similar gambling property on its border reservation in Rock Hill.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Rate Bureau is back at it again, proposing a 25-35% increase for the coastal area.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Bill Cook
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The South Carolina-based Catawba Nation would not be the first Indian tribe to operate a casino in a state where it has no reservation if it is able to open an entertainment resort in Cleveland County.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kay Hagan, Harry Reid and Barry Obama all sold us on how great this ObamaCare stuff was going to be. We could stay with our doctor if we like him or her.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Earlier, we reported on the cushy treatment North Carolina insurance commissioner Wayne Goodwin has been getting regarding this ObamaCare mess.
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 7:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina officials are scrambling to determine the impacts of accepting President Obama's one-year delay in canceling policies that have been deemed illegal under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2013 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Misallocated mileage reimbursement funds found in two separate investigations of state agencies expose the difficulty of supervising work-at-home state employees and might be only part of a larger problem, State Auditor Beth Wood said.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 4:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to allow auto insurance companies to set their own rates collided with opponents on Tuesday as the bill failed to muster enough votes to get out of committee.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to allow auto insurance companies to set their own rates collided with opponents on Tuesday as the bill failed to muster enough votes to get out of committee.
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 1:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Jeff Collins may have foreshadowed debate on a proposal to rework the way auto insurance rates are set when he told a panel hearing his...
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 4:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Washington Police would like to invite anyone to stop by the Operation Medicine Drop event on Saturday, March 23rd, 10am until 2pm.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2013 @ 7:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NC 20 learned earlier today that NC Department of Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has reached a settlement agreement with the NC Rate Bureau on the Homeowners Insurance Rate Filing that was submitted in October 2012.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 9:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Most everyone agrees North Carolina's Medicaid program is broken, but fixing Medicaid hasn't been a high priority for previous governors or legislators.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2013 @ 10:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Two of the General Assembly's most powerful Republican lawmakers and the Democratic state insurance commissioner are among those ensnared in a legal struggle between private and nonprofit bail bondsmen organizations providing instructional courses for bail agents.
Published: Monday, January 7th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Office of the Governor released the following pool report of Governor Pat McCrory's swearing-in ceremony, prepared by The Associated Press.
Published: Saturday, January 5th, 2013 @ 11:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Homeowners could see their insurance rates go up - some by as much as 30 percent - if a request by the N.C. Rate Bureau is approved.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've changed my mind about the 2012 campaigns for North Carolina governor. I now think they may actually matter.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday April 3rd Republican NC House District 6 Candidate Mattie Lawson met with representatives of the Outer Banks Home Builders Association at their headquarters on Airstrip Road in Kill Devil Hills, NC.
Published: Thursday, April 5th, 2012 @ 9:11 am
By: Mattie Lawson
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State public campaign funding for key races is drying up, a situation with significant implications for a number of candidates in this coming election season.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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