100 of most violent murderers just released, more to come, sending to US
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Steed
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State Still Collected $3 Billion in Surplus Revenue
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 10:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Safety vs politicians want for more money
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2023 @ 5:29 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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House Bill 750 Protects State Pension Plan, Retirees and Employees from 'Wacktivism'
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2023 @ 1:20 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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This week, North Carolina House legislators concurred with Senate changes to a bill legalizing sports gambling in the state, advancing the legislation to Governor Roy Cooper’s desk. Cooper has indicated he will sign it into law.
Published: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 12:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The $1.4 billion allocation for a non-profit called NCInnovation in the state Senate’s budget plan has raised some eyebrows. Given that this appropriation to the barely five-year-old non-profit organization would amount to nearly five percent of the entire state General Fund budget, it should.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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sex with the Speaker pays!
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2023 @ 9:10 am
By: John Steed
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"This is proof positive that North Carolina politicians and bureaucrats are prepared to trample on the rights of private property owners in order to benefit favored business interests,” said Jon Guze, Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the John Locke Foundation.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When the Affordable Care Act was passed it contained an option for states to extend Medicaid coverage to adults with an income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, beginning in January 2104.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 10:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Locke President Donald Bryson on Today's Medicaid Expansion Deal
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 5:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and State Treasurer Dale Folwell released documents from the Plan’s Request for Proposal process to change its third-party administrator from North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield to Aetna at a media event Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan announced in a press release on Friday that it had rejected protest appeals for the Third-Party Administrative Services (TPA) contract from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and UMR, Inc.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2022 General Election has come and gone. And while the oft-prophesied national “red wave” failed to materialize, North Carolina Republicans had a successful election season.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2021 long session brought North Carolina a “First in Freedom” budget, with pro-growth tax cuts which will continue to reward taxpayers in 2023 and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's largest hospital systems profited from billions COVID relief funds and Medicare payments.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House Bill 1027 would require identification of legislators who request special provisions in the state budget bill.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 5:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new statewide poll out Thursday shows that a majority of Republican primary voters oppose expanding North Carolina’s Medicaid entitlement program.
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 7:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During his oversight of the Leandro case, Judge David Lee failed to scrutinize the comprehensive remedial plan that bears his signature
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On March 10th our General Assembly adjourned a session that spanned 14 months, starting in January of 2021.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 9:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
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N.C. House, Senate Urge Congress to Change Law so State Pensions Can Recover Losses from Russia
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 9:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Calls on Congress to Amend Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to Allow Possible Recoupment of Investment Losses; Urges General Assembly to Pass Resolution
Published: Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 @ 10:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On the heels of my colleague Jon Sanders highlighting that the cost to North Carolina taxpayers for each promised job from government handouts to corporations comes to $586,000 each, the N&O reports that two previous corporate welfare deals are being canceled because the promised jobs never came.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 11:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My previous research brief discussed that last year Gov. Roy Cooper pledged over $1.3 billion in corporate welfare to just 58 corporations from state “economic development” incentives programs whose stated purposes are about “job creation.”
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina State Treasury Controller Linda Combs was fighting for 1.7 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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2021 brought many tax changes to North Carolina with the passage of the state budget, and in the end, everyone will see a bit more in their wallets.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 9:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Both chambers of the General Assembly passed an adjournment resolution Monday night. Looks like Dec. 30 is the date. It’s been a long legislative session, but a very productive session.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 8:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $846 million subsidy deal that North Carolina struck with Apple just topped the “year’s worst” list of a nonpartisan economic think tank.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Department of Transportation continues to be under the watchful eye of the state auditor, who in a report released this week says that department failed to exceed its developed spending plan only by pure luck.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative legislative leadership has held state spending growth in check over the last decade.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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