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In a Tuesday evening press conference at the N.C. General Assembly, Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced an agreement to abandon, for now, efforts to legalize casinos through the state budget.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This week on The Debrief: The N.C. Senate kicked off the week presenting its version of the state budget and wrapped the week giving it bipartisan passage.
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 @ 1:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Inside the 2023 N.C. House budget, measures intended to improve transparency of classroom materials include setting up local "community media advisory committees" for every local board of education.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 8:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House's proposed budget would raise the mandatory retirement age from 72 to 76 for members of the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 12:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last Wednesday, North Carolina House leadership released a biennial budget proposal that over the next two years would, among other things, increase spending on public schools, raise average teacher pay by more than 10%, and expand school choice.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 7:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, and the North Carolina Senate is scheduled to release its version next before the two chambers meet to establish a conference budget
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. State Budget Director Charlie Perusse will retire Nov. 1 after serving in the role for Democratic Governors Mike Easley, Bev Perdue, and now Roy Cooper. Cooper announced on Monday that Perusse’s successor will be Deputy Budget Director Kristin Walker, who has served in her role since 2017.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 10:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed 11 bills into law Thursday, the closely-watched state budget was not one of them.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The budget has a surplus of $6 billion, a projected Rainy-Day Fund of $4.75 billion, and a $1 billion State Inflationary Reserve.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 11:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Teachers will see an average raise of 4.2%, non-certified school employees get average raise of 4%.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal by Video - LIII: Locke’s Terry Stoops analyzes Leandro’s impact on N.C. budget dealThe Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 1:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us most here in North Carolina, and is distilled for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 7:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A state senator is drawing attention to the new N.C. state budget’s measures to fight human trafficking.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Tar Heel State’s budget for the new biennium includes $100 million in supplemental pay for public school teachers in some of the state’s smallest, poorest counties.
Published: Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 @ 2:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Many North Carolinians breathed a sigh of relief last week when the GOP-led legislature and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper came to terms on a budget for the new biennium.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly is expected to being voting Tuesday on the newly-released 2021-23 conference budget.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 9:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republicans of the N.C. General Assembly have once again delivered a budget that cuts taxes for all, leaving even more of North Carolinians hard-earned money in their own pockets.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: Jeff Moore
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N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell has joined 24 state treasurers in signing a letter opposing a portion of national Democrats’ $3.5-trillion budget reconciliation bill that would expand the power of the Internal Revenue Service.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 3:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill intended to prohibit conflicts of interest by local elected officials is stalled in the N.C. legislature, as lawmakers wrangle over the state budget and the end of session remains uncertain.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 11:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, was joined by House budget chairs Monday, Aug. 9, for a news conference outlining the chamber’s biennial proposal.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 3:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate rolled out a budget proposal this week that would expand school choice across the state while raising teacher pay and seeking to remedy student learning losses due to closed classrooms because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Less than a year after an audit of the N.C. Department of Transportation found massive overspending, a blue-ribbon panel is recommending the department get a 40% budget hike.
Published: Saturday, January 16th, 2021 @ 9:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released its annual “Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget” on May 18.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 5:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Department of Transportation overspent its budget by $742 million last year, a new state audit report shows.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A recession is coming, if it’s not already here, the state budget director at the N.C. Office of State Budget and Management told lawmakers in a meeting of the House Select Committee on COVID-19.
Published: Sunday, April 12th, 2020 @ 11:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Few people outside the bubble of N.C. state government seem to be paying much attention to the lingering impasse over a vetoed state budget.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 @ 8:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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 top officer in the N.C. Senate has issued a statement urging Democratic colleagues to help Republicans override the state budget veto next year.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 3:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate will conclude its business this week, with or without overriding the governor’s budget veto, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said during a Monday, Oct. 28, news conference.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 4:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With most of the Democratic caucus absent from the chamber, the N.C. House voted to override two of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2019 @ 9:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly is continuing its push to pass mini-budgets as the stalemate over Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the General Fund budget continues into another month.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 5:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After several starts and stops, on Tuesday, July 9, the N.C. House failed to vote on an override of the governor’s budget bill.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As N.C. legislators prepare to consider overriding Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of their 2019-21 budget deal, Republican senators are drawing attention to funding priorities threatened by the veto.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate passed its budget plan for the next two years Friday by a 30-16 vote.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 @ 11:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate’s proposed biennial budget includes the largest pay raises for state employees in more than a decade, but doesn’t include a cost-of-living increase for state retirees.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 9:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After more than two hours of debate, the N.C. House Friday afternoon passed a $24.5 billion General Fund budget by a 61-51 party-line vote.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 8:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House, as lawmakers began reviewing the budget May 1, supported a sprawling transportation budget, allocating $2.3 billion for North Carolina’s Highway Fund, and $1.6 billion for the state’s Highway Trust Fund for fiscal year 2019-20.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 11:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With each step of the budget process, the lines become clearer in the battle over the future of North Carolina for state employees, taxpayers, and citizens.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the N.C. General Assembly drops its state budget for 2018-19, North Carolina's public colleges and universities vie for money to back career and technical education, employee raises, and system upgrades
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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