All news accounts described the recently passed state budget as spending $30 billion
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 1:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since June 1, at least 18,000 people have lost health care coverage who likely would have been able to keep it under Medicaid Expansion
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 11:23 am
By: Governor's Office
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Local elections boards using private donations in the administration of their elections is getting the attention of lawmakers, as some question the fairness and impartiality of the process.
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:58 am
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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ERIC was created with money from Soros' Open Society Institute
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Steed
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The new North Carolina budget has many positive elements, with notable tax cuts and school choice expansion. On balance, there is more good than bad.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With more than three months into the new fiscal year, North Carolina still does not have a budget in place.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 1:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Back in October, General Fund revenues were $50.4 million behind projections, not much when the state expects to collect $23.1 billion for the year. Despite the relatively small difference, the usual advocates for higher taxes were out wringing their hands about the shortfall
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 3:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're not shy about criticizing legislators when criticism is due. That said, we also like to point out when lawmakers do the right thing
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 3:27 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the recently completed legislative session, the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to enact a new budget for state government
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 @ 3:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Surrounded by families, children, first responders, advocates and care providers, Governor Pat McCrory unveiled his budget priorities to further promote a healthy North Carolina. The governor's budget proposal will expand services to strengthen families and support North Carolina's most...
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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If you think government is too large and wields too much power, then you have plenty of reasons to be dismayed by recent national developments. But if you live in North Carolina, there is some good news mixed in with the bad.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With budget negotiations still underway and a third Continuing Resolution that extends funding for essential services until September 18th, it is vital to keep focus on the importance of what the House conferees are advocating for in Raleigh.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:59 pm
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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That’s a mighty apt take on the current environment on Jones Street, as supplied from one disgusted insider who confided in me.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2015 @ 10:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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From what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly's lower chamber. And HE is a leader of a distinct minority in the House.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 9:57 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radios are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation. Or they attack with a sensational
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radio are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 10:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Exhausted legislators finally saw the closing gavel and heard the fat lady sing the "sine die," followed quickly by the Hallelujah chorus striking up the perennial tune, "There has to be a better way to run a state."
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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If you listen to the drive-by media or the zombies and trolls following Bill Barber around, you’d think North Carolina state government was now a shoe-string operation.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 12:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina state government is spending more money per person this budget year than ever before. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents that fact, which gets lost in ongoing debates about state budget "cuts."
Published: Sunday, August 24th, 2014 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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News accounts of the recently-passed $21.1 billion General Fund budget focus primarily on the teacher pay raise provided by budget writers.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Early next year, the John Locke Foundation will be celebrating our 25th anniversary.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rob "Mr. Politics" Christensen - who has spent THREE decades at The N&O missing stuff like John Edwards's blonde with the camera, Mike Easley's corruption, and Dennis Wicker stiffing a pizza guy - thinks he has the state Senate's president pro tem ALL FIGURED OUT.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The NCGOP has the governor AND the lieutenant governor. Yet, the legislature won't have a budget agreement in place by July 1 - the start of the fiscal year.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 @ 3:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yesterday, Thursday, June 13, 2013, the NC Senate, led by President Pro Tem Phil Berger, took a bold move towards cleaning up state government.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2013 @ 11:18 am
By: Fern Shubert
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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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Here is some information about the 2012 Budget we in the House passed last Wednesday night. I voted for this budget after enduring 9 or 10 hours of listening to the Democrats whine.
Published: Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Bill Cook
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Last Friday, Civitas analyzed the budget proposals put forth by the five major state General Fund appropriation committees that make up the majority of the General Fund.
Published: Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 @ 11:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you follow state politics for any length of time, you hear some version of the following assertion: North Carolina may not rank highly in elementary and secondary education, but we make up for it by having one of the best public university systems in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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