NCACC Weekly Update — May 7
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 10:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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One measure passing the committee directs the Legislative Research Commission to study ABC rules in other states
Published: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 @ 10:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House committee on Alcoholic Beverage Control moved several bills Wednesday, May 5, including measures to expand growler sizes, to allow alcohol service on charter buses, and to set up “social districts.”
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 6:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 30
Published: Thursday, May 6th, 2021 @ 7:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state legislature adjourned the 2017 long session June 29. They were done, right? Expected back all afresh and new in spring of 2018 after a long break of doing nothing? Not exactly
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 12:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper signed the following bills into law
Published: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 @ 12:07 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed into law House Bill 7, An Act to Strengthen the Savings Reserve, as Recommended by the Legislative Research Commission.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2017 @ 4:22 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Here's the good news: North Carolina's state budget is solidly in the black
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2017 @ 6:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. General Assembly’s Legislative Research Commission officially endorsed this afternoon a plan to set new standards for the state’s "ainy day" spending reserves
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 1:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators agreed this week to use millions of dollars from North Carolina's "rainy day" reserves. Some of them are also pursuing clearer rules for using those reserves in the future
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Legislative Research Commission's Committee on Booze Desert Zones recently concluded that nearly 28.3 percent of North Carolinians lack adequate access to hard liquor.
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2016 @ 11:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, responding to legislative action to replace Common Core State Standards in North Carolina, issued the following statement
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 7:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Speaking directly to our elected officials is a privilege that citizens often take for granted.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The NC General Assembly should create two permanent commissions that would be charged with raising the quality and rigor of state English Language Arts and mathematics standards, curricula, and assessments.
Published: Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new permanent commissions should help North Carolina leaders decide whether to modify or replace controversial Common Core public school standards.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new permanent commissions should help North Carolina leaders decide whether to modify or replace controversial Common Core public school standards. That's the recommendation the John Locke Foundation's top education expert puts forward in a new Spotlight report.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2014 @ 5:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The full N.C. General Assembly returns to work in May. In the meantime, many legislators are busy working on oversight and study committees, including roughly 20 new groups set up since the end of the long legislative session last summer. Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for...
Published: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal activist organizations are challenging two new laws. In North Carolina Association of Educators, et al, v. The State of North Carolina, the state's teachers union challenged recent changes to North Carolina's tenure (aka "career status") law.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a spring and summer of growing public discontent over the Common Core State Standards and their effect, the General Assembly decided it was finally time to study the issue.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 3:20 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Supporters of a bill giving the state treasurer's office greater flexibility to invest money from the state's $81 billion pension plan affecting teachers...
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory continues to build a strong team of talent by naming Tony Almeida as Senior Advisor to the governor for Jobs and the Economy, Fred Steen as the governor's Legislative Liaison and Chris Estes as State Chief Information Officer.
Published: Monday, January 7th, 2013 @ 10:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"The Devil is in the details" should be the theme of the Legislative Research Commission's Age of Juvenile Offender Committee. This committee is meeting to discuss what to do about last year's "Raise the Age" bill.
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2012 @ 5:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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There will be No ferry tax for 2012-2013. Because coastal citizens stood up for our rights, we won!
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 3:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Senate and House completed work on the 2012-13 state budget on Thursday, June 21, by adopting the joint conference report that makes changes to the second year of the state's biennial budget.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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