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North Carolina students returning for the spring semester are facing a disconnected classroom environment, following a Jan. 1 state deadline that required all public school boards to enact strict bans on the use of smartphones and laptops during instructional time.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 6:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations Subcommittee on Hurricane Response and Recovery will meet Tuesday, January 23 at 10 a.m.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 8:09 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina state budget, recently enacted, expanded the powers of the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, a body that has been in existence since 1975.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s election reform bill, Senate Bill 747, would require the state and county boards of elections to provide more information on elections and increase the frequency of list maintenance
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2023 @ 11:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the midpoint of the Atlantic hurricane season approaches, victims of Hurricanes Matthew and Florence are still waiting to return home years later.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 7:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The budget our legislature has passed is the cherry on top of the upside-down power grab cake our lawmakers have been baking since January.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Watch the entire debate with public comment here. The joint legislative Rules Committee spent two hours debating legislation that among other measures would ban abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy with some exceptions
Published: Thursday, June 15th, 2023 @ 12:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It was a case of rinse and repeat for North Carolina lawmakers as they heard much of the same testimony from North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) officials on efforts to help those who lost homes due to Hurricanes Matthew and Florence.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Representatives Jon Hardister, R-Guilford, and Zack Hawkins, D-Durham, announced the formation of a new historically black colleges and universities caucus, along with senators Gladys Robinson, D-Guilford, and Carl Ford, R-Rowan.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 6:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Ben Moss, R-Richmond, called for re-evaluating the “antiquated” county tier system, a system that ranks N.C.’s counties based on several economic factors, in his legislative agenda released on Tuesday.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 7:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, today announced his intended committee appointments for the 2023-24 legislative biennium.
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 10:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A presentation to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on Nov. 29 revealed marginal improvements in reading proficiency for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade, although learning loss from pandemic school closures is having an impact, particularly for minority students.
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 7:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In the 2021 state budget, lawmakers combined the state's two school-choice grants for special needs students into one program.
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 11:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Sen. Amy Galey, R-Alamance, argues that state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls "has no business" taking part in the Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 12:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne) has been appointed by Speaker of the House Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) to serve as Co-Chair of the newly formed Subcommittee on Hurricane Response and Recovery under the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina House leaders have called a Health Committee meeting for first thing Thursday morning, June 23, 2022, to vote on a bill that would direct the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop a Medicaid Modernization Plan by December 15, 2022
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 5:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly was full of activity this week with various committees acting on a myriad of policy legislation as the legislature looks to wind down committee work ahead of adjournment as early as the end of this month.
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday the N.C. General Assembly’s Senate leadership announced a health care proposal that includes Medicaid expansion under the federal entitlement program, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly convenes the 2022 short session after the longest long session in state history concluded in March.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House Bill 1005 would strengthen penalties associated with organized retail theft.
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 10:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A Democratic state representative from Raleigh proposes a statewide ban on transporting dogs in open vehicle beds and cargo areas.
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2022 @ 7:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new statewide poll out Thursday shows that a majority of Republican primary voters oppose expanding North Carolina’s Medicaid entitlement program.
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 7:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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pushes for key part of Roy Cooper's leftwing agenda
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Steed
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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The bill is the latest step in getting modems out of voting machines
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly did not meet to take public votes this week.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This news release from N.C. Senate Republicans arrived this morning in my in box.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 9:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Outgoing N.C. Health Secretary Mandy Cohen told lawmakers recently that schools could still close in the event of a COVID infection surge this winter.
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 5:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The last puzzle pieces of a new budget are finally coming together, as both the House and the Senate passed the $25.9 billion budget for the biennium. It is now headed to Gov. Roy Cooper, who announced earlier this week that he intends to sign it.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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