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deserves our vote and support
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2024 @ 9:10 am
By: John Steed
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The NC Court of Appeals ruling this week against Wilson County schools in a pension-spiking dispute could affect outstanding cases in Harnett and Union counties.
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 8:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wilson County Board of Education owes more than $400,000 to help fund a former assistant superintendent's retirement benefits, based on a ruling Tuesday from the state Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 8:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Attorney General Josh Stein and three local district attorneys urge a federal court not to block North Carolina's new anti-riot law.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 2:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Three members of North Carolina's congressional delegation voted to grant voting rights to noncitizens
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 11:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the center of the debate surrounding the new state budget, public school advocates claim it falls hundreds of millions of dollars short of a court-ordered mandate to increase funding to improve public education.
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 12:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina will be in the news once again next October as the US Supreme Court hears the case Moore vs. Harper, a case that could alter not only our state, but our democracy. We need to pay attention to this one.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 8:54 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Local political Conservative and retired Lt. Colonel Pete Benton endorses Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage in his bid for re-election to the office that he currently holds.
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 9:00 am
By: Pete Benton
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On May 4, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s far west in Congress, commented on Twitter that the release of a sexual video of him was “blackmail.”
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 10:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On February 2, the NC Public Health Commission Board at their regularly scheduled meeting will be voting on a request by some ASU professors to add a mandate that all students in NC 17 years old or older be injected with the current COVID19 gene therapy shots.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Woodard
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This resolution to request the NC General Assembly to begin the process of a NC Constitutional Referendum to develop the ability to recall themselves back into session by a simple majority vote seemed like a good idea at the time, but failed on a 3 to 3 split vote.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2022 @ 3:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Another month, and another Beaufort County Commissioner General Meeting later, we will, by the mention of just two resolutions, determine, once again, who are the real Republicans and who are not.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In an inestimable year of damage done to our Constitutional Republic by the politicization of Covid, and to the People and small businesses of North Carolina, who are damaged by the tyranny of bad governing by an Authoritarian executive branch, accountability must now reign.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When the reports of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE), working in concert with, and for a Democratic Socialist: state's attorney general, governor and plaintiff lawyer to subvert a Representative created general statute regarding elections, I did write this resolution.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 10:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Supreme Court Justices Tamara Barringer and Phil Berger Jr. confirmed late Friday afternoon that they will take part in a high-profile case involving two challenged amendments to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Constitution’s protection of economic liberty could help a fired Durham police sergeant in his lawsuit against the city. A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court’s ruling against the fired officer.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 7:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly will consider a measure to enshrine North Carolina’s right-to-work policies in the state constitution.
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The vast majority of respondents to a new John Locke Foundation poll of likely 2022 general election voters in North Carolina support the state’s right-to-work law and would support a right-to-work amendment to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 9:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When it comes to an inherent right, nothing is regulated quite like the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest round in the fight over redistricting has begun in the General Assembly.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 12:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Touchscreen voting systems suffer from numerous defects and the State Board of Elections (SBE) should not have approved of their use in North Carolina Elections.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 3:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A recent court ruling has potentially opened the door to recognizing that parents need more choice in determining where to send their children to school.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 10:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Loretta Biggs, a federal judge in North Carolina’s middle district, issued a preliminary injunction on New Year’s Eve in NC NAACP v. Cooper.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Should a convicted felon who has not completed his or her full sentence be allowed to vote? The North Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) thinks so.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 12:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This is the second of a two-part series critiquing several redistricting reform proposals in the North Carolina General Assembly on their adherence to principles of redistricting reform.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 3:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We've been hearing a lot about "redistricting" lately.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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There’s no N.C. equivalent to the celebration surrounding national Constitution Day. Perhaps it’s a good idea to start one.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 11:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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There are several candidates who are seeking the Congressional seat from the 3rd District that was held by the late great Walter B. Jones, but only one is a tried and true conservative.
Published: Friday, March 15th, 2019 @ 6:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This overview is written for the purpose of educating North Carolina voters on the six proposed amendments to the North Carolina state constitution.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 4:55 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Having selected our usual annual location, the Dare Center in Manteo, the energized Dare County Republican Party met Saturday March 10th 2018 to renew friendships, confirm resolutions which cement our mutual commitments to our US and NC Constitutions and to support President Donald Trump, our electe
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 5:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some members of the General Assembly seem to think so.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 2:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's constitution states that the governor's Cabinet picks must receive "advice and consent" of the State Senate
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2017 @ 12:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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