North Carolina legislators have filed a Parents’ Bill of Rights bill
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 7:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 1027 would require identification of legislators who request special provisions in the state budget bill.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 5:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Americans for Tax Reform lauds N.C. legislators as national leaders in "advancing pro-growth tax policies."
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 5:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law complies with the state constitution and should survive a legal challenge.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State lawmakers defending their latest election maps are urging a three-judge panel to avoid conducting a “beauty contest” over competing plans.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 11:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Sen. Chuck Edwards, Republican candidate for the 14th Congressional District, announced today that the following state legislators have endorsed his campaign:
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 2:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers are asking big questions about the state program that puts federal dollars into the hands of renters facing eviction during the pandemic.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 11:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Superior Court Judge David Lee, the presiding jurist in the decades-long Leandro lawsuit, said at a hearing Tuesday, April 13 that he won’t tell lawmakers how to spend money on public education.
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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ADF attorneys represent House speaker, Senate president in lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 1:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Arizona Republicans on Monday called for the decertification of their state's false election results.
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 5:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A Houston-based group that focuses on election integrity is throwing its support to N.C. legislators in a dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you wear a skimpy swimsuit on North Carolina’s Kure Beach, you’re a criminal.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 7:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In reaction to the legislature adjourning without passing needed funds to continue Medicaid Managed Care implementation, spokesperson Megan Thorpe offered the following comment:
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced that because the NC General Assembly did not take needed action, managed care implementation and open enrollment for NC Medicaid must be suspended.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers will return to Raleigh Wednesday, Nov. 13, two weeks after adjourning a very, very long session.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 8:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper today sent a letter to Republican legislative leadership encouraging them to stay in Raleigh and negotiate teacher pay with him.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 7:36 am
By: Governor's Office
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Legislators looking into how Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration handled an environmental permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have asked Cooper and three of his top staffers to testify in Raleigh at a legislative committee meeting Friday, Nov. 8.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 12:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican leadership continues to play games with teachers by excluding them from raises that other state employees received this week.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 5:16 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Legislative Republicans headed home last week without passing a budget or teacher pay raises and don’t plan to return until September 30th.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 3:40 am
By: Governor's Office
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Last week, Governor Cooper and Democratic legislators put forward a detailed, responsible compromise budget proposal and invited Republican legislative leaders to meet and negotiate.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 2:06 pm
By: Governor's Office
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When defending their pay-as-you-go statewide school construction plan, Republican legislators sometimes appear perplexed.
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2019 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Expect continuing partisan shots as Republican legislators and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration haggle over state government’s response to Hurricane Matthew.
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 @ 3:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a letter, Governor Roy Cooper urged Republican legislators to use recently announced surplus revenue to invest in public education and health care in the 2019 – 2021 state budget.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 1:23 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Wednesday, January 9, 2019 one-day session featured the swearing in of all legislators who had not already taken their oaths in local ceremonies.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 9:27 pm
By: S. Henri McClees
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Do you remember the public discussions which went on for years about the proposed equal rights amendment to our federal Constitution?
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:26 pm
By: Publius Huldah
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Do governors and state legislators really have much to do with the performance of state economies
Published: Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 @ 2:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state legislator is hoping to give disabled veterans and spouses of fallen first responders a break on their property tax bills
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2017 @ 5:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the election just around the corner, there is no shortage of polls willing to tell others what the public thinks. So when a pollster tells you they surveyed State Legislators about what they think on K-12 education, choice-based policies and the profession, it catches your attention
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 11:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Regardless of one's opinion on HB 2, it cannot overshadow or remotely counteract what North Carolina has done legislatively over the last five years to become one of the most attractive places in the country to do business, invest, live, raise a family, and retire. Since Republicans took control...
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Voters, candidates, and political partisans exchanged sharply divided views and occasional vitriol Monday in a marathon public hearing about North Carolina congressional redistricting in the wake of a federal court decision placing the scheduled March 15 primary in jeopardy
Published: Thursday, February 18th, 2016 @ 2:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If there is an Article V convention, we will lose the Constitution we have, and another Constitution will be imposed.
Published: Monday, February 15th, 2016 @ 5:13 am
By: Publius Huldah
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In 2013, RTI International teamed with LaCapra Associates to report on "The Economic, Utility Portfolio, and Rate Impact of Clean Energy Development in North Carolina." Prepared for the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA), the report made fantastic findings that North Carolina's...
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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