Governor Cooper Announces $7.7 Million for Mental Health Programs in State Colleges and UniversitiesRALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced $7.7 million in new funding to support North Carolina’s postsecondary institutions in providing additional mental health services to students.
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Governor's Office
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Republican budget writers released their conference budget adjustments for the new fiscal year on Tuesday, circumventing the traditional appropriations process.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Senate passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, legislation introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) that will reduce violence and protect the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 @ 12:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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98% of mass shootings from 1998 to 2022 have taken place in gun-free zones.
Published: Monday, June 13th, 2022 @ 7:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed June as LGBTQ Pride Month to honor the state’s LGBTQ+ community, their fight for equality and North Carolina’s efforts to create a welcoming community for all.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 11:02 am
By: Governor's Office
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President Donald J. Trump is signing funding legislation that provides vital support for our military.
Published: Monday, December 23rd, 2019 @ 5:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump at the White House Mental Health Summit
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2019 @ 2:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Measure to be introduced in 2020 aims to cut suicides by increasing access to key services to our men and women — and offer unconventional treatments, too, such as yoga and acupuncture
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 9:42 am
By: LifeZette
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And the Raleigh News & Observer wasn't alone. "School safety panel calls for resource officers in every NC school," according to WRAL.com.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2019 @ 10:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Friday, CNN's Anderson Cooper ran a segment on "Anderson Cooper 360" featuring far-left activists David Hogg and Cameron Kasky in which both made a series of misleading statements using divisive rhetoric.
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 1:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers approved six recommendations during the final meeting of the School Safety Subcommittee on Student Health
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every child deserves to grow up in a safe community surrounded by a loving family and to have a future filled with opportunity and with hope.
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) supported the 21st Century Cures Act, bipartisan legislation that increases funding for Alzheimer's and cancer research, strengthens and improves important mental health programs, and gives additional money to fight the opioid crisis across the nation.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 9:52 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The race for North Carolina's House District 88 is a hotly contested showdown between two-term Republican Rep. Rob Bryan and Democratic newcomer Mary Belk, a Charlotte native who says Bryan's policy decisions are disconnected from the district's needs
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 11:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone is talking about the $22 billion+ House Budget and what will happen to the spending plan now that it has crossed chambers and is in the hands of the Senate. Senate leaders will be meeting all this week to start their preparations before it is debated in sub-committees. We should expect a...
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For many of us, Labor Day signifies the last day of summer. For local governments, it is the day property tax bills are sent to millions of citizens. Property taxes are one of the oldest forms of taxation in North Carolina and were used through the 1930s as a joint tax by state and local...
Published: Saturday, September 6th, 2014 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's mental health system is "very fragile," straining beneath the weight of psychiatrist shortages, emergency rooms overflowing...
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's mental health programs have faced fiscal challenges for several years, and the programs now are running a $35 million deficit.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov.-elect Pat McCrory has ordered an "immediate review" of North Carolina's school safety measures in light of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., and said it will be accompanied by scrutiny of the state's mental health programs.
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2012 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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