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Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Department of Administration (NCDOA) has released a new policy that updates design and construction requirements for new state government and university buildings in flood-prone areas for the first time in over thirty years.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 8:42 am
By: ENC NOW
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will allow a taxpayer from North Carolina to proceed with a lawsuit seeking a 2013 federal tax refund. Judges rejected government arguments that the suit should be dismissed.
Published: Tuesday, July 11th, 2023 @ 5:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s Congressman Dan Bishop, R-08, and members of the newly-created Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, exposed details in its inaugural hearings into what some witnesses called a government censorship campaign.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 10:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has seen a $7 billion improvement over the past year in the shortfall for government retirees’ health benefits. That’s according to a new report from The Segal Group.
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina continues under the Authoritarian yoke of an Emergency Powers executive governing stance as Authoritarian Cooper refuses to rescind his extra authority of Emergency Powers even though his own government's bureaucrats admits that the Covid threat is in a diminishing state.
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 11:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State of North Carolina recruiters will participate in a Virtual Government and Non-Profit Jobs Hiring Event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 27.
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 6:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: David Winstead
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It’s budget season for North Carolina’s local governments, and some officials are taking the opportunity to propose tax increases yet again.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding legal dispute calls for state government to spend an additional $785 million on education-related items.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Those “spending rules” are codified in the North Carolina Constitution and have been since 1776. Our system of government could not run without them.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. announced that state government would begin verifying vaccination status of its workers.
Published: Thursday, August 26th, 2021 @ 4:06 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Leaders of the North Carolina High School Athletics Association are scheduled to testify before the newly created, Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations Subcommittee on Interscholastic Athletic
Published: Monday, April 19th, 2021 @ 9:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As of November, North Carolina’s state government has some $4 billion in unreserved cash in its General Fund, plus well north of $1 billion in its rainy-day account and other reserves.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 12:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 recession in March, North Carolina policymakers have been watching government revenues and expenditures carefully.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 6:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s economy, battered by COVID-19 itself as well as government’s costly attempts to contain its spread, is still struggling to recover.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 7:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state government began its 2020-21 fiscal year with $1.5 billion in cash left over from last year plus another $1.8 billion in rainy-day funds and other earmarked reserves.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2020 @ 3:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An effort by Governor Roy Cooper’s administration is matching North Carolina college students in need of work experience with local governments and nonprofits seeking additional help to support COVID-19 response efforts.
Published: Saturday, July 11th, 2020 @ 12:41 am
By: Governor's Office
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Thanks to a decade of wise, conservative fiscal policy, North Carolina state government is better positioned financially to weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus shutdown.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 10:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In late March, I wrote about how North Carolina state government is likely better financially prepared than most states for the coronavirus shutdown, and certainly more prepared than it was prior to the Great Recession.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 8:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (“NCICL”) offered its assistance to Governor Cooper and local governments in rescinding or revising orders unconstitutionally restricting the rights of the people to free speech and to assembly.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With massive unemployment forced on the people of North Carolina by government decree, the State should sharply curtail and preferably halt its state run gambling business.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2020 @ 9:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina law bans government agencies from making contracts with unions and bans public employees from striking.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 1:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state government entered its 2019-20 fiscal year on July 1 without a new state budget in place. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led legislature haven’t agreed to one, yet.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina General Assembly lags behind most other states as one of seven state governments that doesn't offer video of any legislative sessions or committees
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 7:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rob Christensen, the venerable political reporter for the News & Observer, offers a future vision of North Carolina as Illinois, with out-of-control spending leading to failing government and bad credit
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 5:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That's what Dr. Erin Fraher, health workforce expert at University of North Carolina, had to say to lawmakers at a recent subcommittee meeting that examined how government funds are distributed to help teaching hospitals pay for physician residency programs
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 10:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina state government's reserves are in the best condition they've seen this century
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State agencies reported a record 250 data breaches, identity information thefts, and unauthorized disclosures of personal records in their custody in 2017
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 12:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper called for expanded high-speed broadband service throughout North Carolina in his opening address at the North Carolina Digital Government Summit on Wednesday morning
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 12:41 am
By: Governor's Office
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Regardless of the election results, on Wednesday all of us at the John Locke Foundation will come to work with the same goal we've had since the doors opened in 1990: Restraining government to its core, constitutional functions and enacting policies that expand freedom and opportunity
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 11:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The on-going modernization and efficiency initiatives in North Carolina state government, spearheaded by Governor Pat McCrory, are getting recognition beyond the bounds of North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2016 @ 9:52 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Approximately 55 percent of North Carolina's $21.9 billion state budget is spent on education. About 70 percent of all money devoted to education is spent on K-12 education
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 10:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Few political promises are as common as this one: “My policies will create jobs.”
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2016 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Kellie Fiedorek regarding the U.S. Department of Justice's threats Wednesday against a North Carolina law that protects the privacy of citizens in government facility and public school restrooms and locker rooms
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2016 @ 1:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Carper (D-DE) applauded the Senate for passing S. 2133, the Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act, which will help federal agencies better detect and prevent fraud
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2016 @ 11:30 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The UNC Board of Governors rightly recognizes gaps in its knowledge of the law - and admits its need for coaching on the subject, said Jonathan Jones, director of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition and Sunshine Center at Elon University.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 5:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Building on transformational reforms begun in 2011, North Carolina's elected leaders continued changes in 2015 to curtail spending, instill fiscal responsibility, rein in regulations, improve education, make government open and accountable, and create the best possible conditions for economic growth
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A growing health care alternative in North Carolina that shuns insurance for services provided by physicians at a set price could be incorporated into the state's insurance program for government employees, along with Medicaid
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently, I was asked by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) if, with respect to higher education, I would favor eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Medical technology that seemed relegated to science fiction is at hand, but fast-moving innovations are threatened by established interests and government regulations, said a panel of medical and academic experts at the State Policy Network's recent annual meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 2:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2013, North Carolina's unemployment insurance (UI) program was in terrible shape. Like most states, North Carolina borrowed funds from the federal government to cover increased unemployment benefits during the great recession. The Tar Heel State owed Washington $2.75 billion. As a result, the sta
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2015 @ 4:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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