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Thank you for your interest in the issue of "NO Ferry Tax". Because of your support, we won!
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The NC General Assembly is moving quickly toward resolve its 2016 budget. The House & Senate have each passed its own version of House Bill #1030 (the budget bill).
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It was a great meeting with a great discovery = we get to direct our own show here. The DOT has changed it's whole approach. No longer are they wanting to cram things down our throats.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I don't understand. North Carolinians OVERWHELMINGLY approve of requiring photo ID in order to cast a vote in the state's elections.
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 10:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Congratulations to everyone who travelled to Raleigh for Monday night's Public Hearing on the ferry tax issue.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 12:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NC DOT has added a third Public Hearing about proposed toll changes on its ferry routes.
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 9:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NC DOT has added a third Public Hearing about proposed toll changes on its ferry routes.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 3:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NC DOT announced today it will hold two public meetings about proposed toll changes on its ferry routes.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCGOP leaders have been patting themselves on the back for getting Pat McCrory into the governor's mansion, and Richard Hudson and George Holding into Congress.
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2012 @ 4:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Pat McCrory, fresh of his rout of Walter Dalton in the governor's race, is putting out the word that we shouldn't expect "major personnel changes right away."
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 11:32 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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There's been a sudden explosion of purple hair and tongue-piercings in the vicinity of Trade & Tryon. Barney Frank -- a/k/a "The Banking Queen" -- checked into his hotel with a belt strapped around his neck.
Published: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 @ 10:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Don't look now, but North Carolina seems to have survived a significant reduction in the duration of the state's legislative sessions.
Published: Friday, August 17th, 2012 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative Democrats did not give the GOP high marks, citing a host of differences in philosophy and approach and that the new laws would result in ineffective or even harmful policies.
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 2:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the second year in a row, Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the state budget approved by the General Assembly. And also for the second straight year, the General Assembly garnered the three-fifths majority vote in both chambers needed to override her veto.
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 7:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In spite of recent statements by gubernatorial candidates Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory opposing the North Carolina International Terminal, Toby Bronstein, a spokeswoman for Save the Cape, fears the proposed megaport may not be dead.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you check out Forbes Magazine's List of the Best Places for Business and Careers, you will find a slideshow of silver skyscrapers hailing the prosperity of Raleigh and other North Carolina metro areas - but failing to show economic reality elsewhere in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Rep. Harold Brubaker, the first and only Republican House speaker of the 20th century and most recently the chamber's senior budget-writer, announced Thursday he's retiring from the Legislature.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the activists who have fought for years to abolish North Carolina's death penalty, the just-completed short session was a crushing disappointment.
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, House Majority Leader, released the following statements today after the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of Senate Bill 416, which modifies the procedures for the death penalty.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An override of Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's budget veto highlighted a day of votes in which the Republican-controlled General Assembly shot down the governor's vetoes three times.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 3:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue on Friday said she planned to veto the budget adjustments passed by the GOP-dominated General Assembly.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Late Friday, June 29, 2012, Governor Beverly Perdue vetoed the 20.2 billion dollar budget proposed by the Republican controlled North Carolina General Assembly, and now that proposal as law becomes more uncertain as both houses of the legislature will search for enough votes to override her veto.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 2:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bill Cook: We have a good budget and the adjustments to our pervious budget are detailed below. If she vetoes this budget bill, we will try a veto override on Friday or maybe Monday. We have done it in the past and I think we can override her this time.
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 @ 7:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm going to out on a limb here and predict that the legislature's new spending plan for 2012-13 will not result in the demise of public education, the collapse of North Carolina's economy, a plague of locusts, or the end of western civilization as we know it.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 2:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The "compromise" budget bill crafted by the conference committee was approved by both chambers of the state legislature Thursday, meaning the bill now moves to Gov. Perdue's desk.
Published: Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Bev Perdue's top legislative aide told a Senate committee on Thursday that altered letters which ended up saying the opposite of what a top ranking Department of Transportation official intended.
Published: Friday, June 22nd, 2012 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Department of Transportation's chief operating officer confirmed that he did not sign a letter to lawmakers saying that money was needed for two toll projects as soon as possible.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 7:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today is the day that officials from the N.C. Department of Transportation are slated to give their story about how altered letters from the department's chief operating officer made into the hands of state legislators last week.
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 @ 6:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate Rules Committee plans an inquiry into two altered letters purportedly from a top N.C. Department of Transportation official which said that money is needed now in order to proceed with two toll projects - the Garden Parkway in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties and the Mid-Currituck.
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 @ 6:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican leaders are determined to pass a voter ID bill this session and they say their resolve is fueled by promises they made to voters during the 2010 election.
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 @ 1:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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With the $20.1 billion budget headed to the Senate floor, lawmakers are beginning to talk seriously about ending the 2012 short session of the General Assembly. Yet a few items remain on their to-do list.
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some of the Democrats in the General Assembly have already begun The Whine about the "devastating cuts" Republicans are making to the UNC system. That's foolishness. They should, in fact, be much more substantial.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 2:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The debate over the State budget's impact on public education has generated much heat and little light in the last few weeks. Democrats point to large budget reductions, personnel losses and talk of the devastating long-term consequences on students and the public schools.
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 @ 8:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, April 23, 2012 the NC Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Transportation met in Raleigh. Rep. Tim Spears (Democrat, Washington County) proposed legislation to repeal any new or increased ferry tolls.
Published: Monday, April 30th, 2012 @ 3:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State officials are scrambling to close a Medicaid shortfall that could be as high as a quarter-billion dollars, or risk being unable to deliver services to recipients and make payments to providers.
Published: Thursday, April 26th, 2012 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina civics lesson continues! Our journey is not over. Just because the NC Attorney General "sided with the legislature" does not mean we have won or lost.
Published: Saturday, April 14th, 2012 @ 9:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Americans for Prosperity Foundation – North Carolina (AFPF-NC) and the John William Pope Civitas Institute, the partners behind NC Real Solutions, today responded to Governor Beverly Perdue’s criticisms of their new television ad.
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 @ 1:44 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Monday, August 29, 2011, two days in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Emergency Management team continued their exhaustive work, but took a break to meet with the politicians, who visited Beaufort County to witness the destructive power of the massive storm.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We in the Legislature have been busy overriding Beverly Perdue's vetoes. Yesterday we overrode her veto of SB 33, Medical Liability Reforms, SB 496, Medicaid and Health Choice Provider Requirements and SB 781, Regulatory Reform Act of 2011.
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 @ 10:36 am
By: Bill Cook
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