State Attorney General Josh Stein’s office is willing to go along with a delay in implementing a $1.7 billion school funding order. A court filing from Stein’s office Tuesday morning marked the latest development in the long-running Leandro lawsuit.
Published: Monday, December 13th, 2021 @ 8:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Controller Linda Combs is going to court to block a recent ruling in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers are trying to fix the Department of Transportation’s spending problems that triggered mass layoffs, project delays, and chaos in the transportation industry.
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2020 @ 9:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state panel that determines how much money North Carolina can prudently borrow over the next 10 years rejected an appeal Wednesday by Gov. Roy Cooper's budget director to triple the state's debt ceiling from $2.03 billion to more than $6 billion.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2019 @ 2:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The final numbers are in on North Carolina's budget surplus. They are informative. They ought to provoke significant debate and discussion. Instead, they have gotten virtually no media coverage or public comment
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's nominee for State Controller, Dr. Linda Morrison Combs, was sworn-in today during a ceremony at the Executive Mansion
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 @ 5:25 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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There are some really good things on the table as the budget conferees discuss, debate, compromise, and finalize North Carolina's government spending for the next two years
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 8:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Concerns about the costs of a fiscal transparency measure in the Senate budget raised by local governments and some McCrory administration officials are misplaced, says Sen. Andrew Brock, R-Davie, who introduced the plan.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A funny thing has happened on the way to North Carolina's great budget crisis of 2015. Well, strictly speaking, what happened is funny if you are on the Right side of the political spectrum. If you are a liberal activist or Democratic politician, the emotions you may be feeling right now are...
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to the latest monthly report from State Controller Linda Combs, the state of North Carolina has collected about $6.5 billion in General Fund revenue during the first four months of the 2014-15 fiscal year. That's a lot of money. But it's almost $400 million less than what the state...
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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