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Commutations are first after Governor’s Juvenile Sentence Review Board examined cases
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 3:55 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Members of the N.C. General Assembly may meet for only one day this week — Tuesday, Jan. 14 — and will potentially hold a vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 10:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says a revised Senate Bill 117 would eliminate some costly benefit options and impose forfeiture of retirement benefits for some criminal offenses
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The final day of a sometimes divisive election year legislative session ended with bipartisan back slaps, and emotional farewell speeches injected with folksy humor, good-natured jabs, reminiscence, and heartfelt thanks from those who will not return next year
Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2018 @ 6:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $23.9 billion state General Fund budget for 2018-19 is a step away from being sent to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $23.9 billion state General Fund budget for 2018-19 is a step away from being sent to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2018 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans want to protect their supermajority in the General Assembly. No surprise there
Published: Sunday, October 29th, 2017 @ 5:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers won't consider race when they redraw legislative maps to meet a Sept. 1 federal court deadline
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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All but one of the 29 speakers at Friday's public hearing of a joint legislative redistricting committee encouraged and admonished Republican lawmakers to dramatically alter the way North Carolina's electoral districts are drawn
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2017 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After two rushed committee meetings Tuesday, Senate Bill 68 seems on its way to quick passage. The floor vote on the measure merging the State Board of Elections and the State Ethics Commission is on Thursday’s House calendar
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hurricane Matthew still sits a couple of days away from the North Carolina coast, and those in its projected path root for the storm to turn to the east
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A move to rein in the appointment powers of Democratic Gov.-elect Roy Cooper moved swiftly through the GOP-controlled House on Thursday with almost no debate in committee before it reached the full House for approval.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 7:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly on Friday approved a broad array of electoral changes including a separate June 7 congressional primary and new congressional district boundaries before adjourning the two-day special session Gov. Pat McCrory had called.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 2:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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An unusual coalition of 12 liberal Democrats and 11 conservative Republicans comprised the only formal opposition to the $22.1-billion General Fund budget passed around 1:15 a.m. May 22 by the state House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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AFP-NC’s Donald Bryson has labeled the House’s action on the budget as “reverse Robin Hood.”-
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 8:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina voters soon could vote for governor and lieutenant governor as a team under a measure approved Tuesday by the House Elections Committee.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 8:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would shift next year's North Carolina presidential preference primary from late February to March 8. That chamber also nixed a proposed amendment to the N.C. Constitution that would have required a party's candidates for governor and...
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has one of the most aggressive Certificate of Need (CON) programs in the nation. A bipartisan bill introduced this week in the North Carolina House would loosen some of the CON reins.
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Removing outdated legal barriers to consumer health care choices could help corral rising Medicaid costs in North Carolina, reform advocates say.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hoping to loosen the monopoly hospitals have on a variety of medical procedures and facilities, State Rep. Marilyn Avila, R-Wake, has introduced House Bill 200, a measure repealing portions of the state certificate-of-need regulatory statutes.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Argos Therapeutics will be expanding in Durham County. The company plans to create an additional 236 jobs by the end of 2018 and invest $56.6 million to build a commercial FDA compliant...
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Chris Downey
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With a wink and a nod, the left-wing media continues to help push the deceptive agenda of the teachers union (NCAE) in the Tar Heel State. It is readily apparent that neither the NCAE nor the media support real educational reform in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Leaked email, UNC BOG nominations cause problems for NCGOP, bumps in the road for Senator-in-WaitingFor years, the UNC Board of Governors has been known as a popular destination for political cronies seeking patronage payoffs. Though, recent scandals within the university system had prompted state Republicans to talk up the idea of shaking the place up.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A tax reform package cleared a key committee Thursday and is headed for a House floor vote, possibly as early as today. The bill passed the House Appropriations...
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 10:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state House has approved a bill that would remove a vestige of Jim Crow days from the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Following nearly three years of debate, the state House Wednesday gave its approval to a bill requiring North Carolina voters to provide photo identification...
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 12:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A key House committee gave its blessing to a voter ID bill after grinding through hours of debate on Wednesday.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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