US District Judge William Osteen heard nearly three hours of arguments Thursday in state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls' lawsuit against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @ 5:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A hearing is scheduled Nov. 2 in Greensboro in state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls' federal First Amendment lawsuit against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 10:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of 16 self-described civil rights organizations and 20 legal ethics professors have filed separate briefs supporting a First Amendment lawsuit from state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 7:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission is urging a federal court to reject a preliminary injunction and dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit from state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2024 @ 8:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live Cafecito and tele-town hall on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss Medicaid expansion, who is newly eligible, ways to apply and which qualified immigration statuses are eligible for health care coverage
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 11:19 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Federal Judge William Osteen criticized state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls and the state Judicial Standards Commission on Friday for "inflammatory" language in recent court filings.
Published: Monday, December 25th, 2023 @ 3:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolinians involved in the criminal justice system are assessed financial obligations that can add up to thousands of dollars—and most are poor and cannot pay them.
Published: Sunday, December 24th, 2023 @ 1:34 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls objects to the state Judicial Standards Commission's request for a two-week extension in its response to her federal First Amendment lawsuit.
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2023 @ 2:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls' federal First Amendment lawsuit has been reassigned from a judge appointed by former President Barack Obama to a colleague appointed by former President George W. Bush.
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 5:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls has filed a federal lawsuit against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission. Earls says the commission is trying to chill her free-speech rights.
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2023 @ 10:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A report by the left-wing North Carolina Justice Center claims to have uncovered 61 instances of private schools receiving more funds from the Opportunity Scholarship Program than they have students enrolled.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Over the past few weeks, Governor Roy Cooper has continued to sound the alarm on dangerous Republican plans that would gut funding for public education and expand private school vouchers so anyone – even a millionaire – can get taxpayer money for their children’s private school tuition.
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina continues to make headlines for its economic development incentives
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 11:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Dec. 8 at Raleigh’s City Club, panelists from both the left and right sides of the aisle were largely in agreement that North Carolina’s booming urban areas are not seeing enough homes being built for how quickly populations are growing
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 11:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Leandro case on August 31
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 8:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Gov. Roy Cooper and nine other Southern Democrat governors, present and past, signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief in support of UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard in a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding their “race-conscious admissions” policies.
Published: Sunday, August 7th, 2022 @ 8:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to North Carolina boards and commissions.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 11:21 am
By: Governor's Office
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If you’ve read a news story about climate change or renewable energy lately in a North Carolina newspaper, there’s a good chance the author’s salary was not paid by that newspaper but rather by funding from an environmentalist organization or other outside money.
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Left insists government is better poised than you to spend more of your hard-earned money.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 9:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. senators are moving forward an omnibus criminal justice reform bill that would make a wide range of changes to state law in response to recent cases of rioting, violence against first responders, and accusations of police brutality.
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 11:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU dental school alumna creates garden to fight food insecurity
Published: Monday, December 14th, 2020 @ 1:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump signed legislation extending the PPP [Paycheck Protection Program] deadline for small business owners.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2020 @ 7:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal group suggests Gov. Cooper replace Folwell as Treasurer April 1, 2020 by Donald Bryson image_print In an article published on April 1, NC Policy Watch’s Rob Schofield makes a series of concerning arguments about the North Carolina State Treasurer’s office.
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 @ 2:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Victims of human trafficking can feel mistreated in the North Carolina justice system, facing charges for offenses they committed while under the influence of coercion and deception, state policymakers say
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2018 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House Rules Committee passed two potential constitutional amendments Thursday
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2018 @ 6:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Civitas Institute released a statement on the nomination of Damon Circosta, executive director of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, to the State Board of Elections and Ethics as the "unaffiliated" ninth member of the board
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2018 @ 6:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Cooper today announced his appointments to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound, Basic Education
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 @ 8:22 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Should public schoolteachers be compensated as professionals? All four panelists at a recent "Hometown Debate" staged at the Old Post Office Playhouse in Newton agreed that teachers should, indeed, be treated this way
Published: Monday, October 30th, 2017 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians and policy analysts clashed Tuesday over school construction costs and who should pay
Published: Sunday, October 29th, 2017 @ 3:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators and policy experts agree that North Carolina teachers need more pay. They disagree on how to dole out the money
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 3:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parental choice in education is popular. About a fifth of North Carolina students are educated outside of district-run public schools, and this share will probably grow to a quarter or more in the coming years
Published: Saturday, October 21st, 2017 @ 5:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Sen. Rick Horner can quip with the best of them. During a recent debate about school construction needs in North Carolina, the Wilson County lawmaker and former school-board chairman argued that the state lottery ought to fulfill its original mandate by producing more money
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2017 @ 1:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan's reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015 or the political races of 2016.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, a working group from the UNC system's Board of Governors drew national attention and student and faculty protest after it announced plans to discontinue three of the system's 237 centers and increase oversight of thirteen others.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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