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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper took to a live streamed YouTube event on Monday to declare a statewide “emergency” over K-12 public school education funding.
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2023 @ 4:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers in the North Carolina House passed a bill Wednesday that would streamline the process of approving new charter schools in the state. The vote was 75-42, with four Democrats joining Republicans in supporting the measure.
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2023 @ 7:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For a lot of people to freeze and die
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2022 @ 7:48 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Secretary Elizabeth S. Biser and North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) Secretary Reid Wilson celebrated Earth Day by participating in a stream clean-up at Chavis Park in Raleigh.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 12:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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Despite not appearing on the ballot in 2022, North Carolina’s first black lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, has been the focus of a week’s worth of negative stories from the mainstream press.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It was hailed as the Bomb Cyclone, a storm consisting of warmer moist air from the Gulf of Mexico that picked up a spinning motion after its center crossed the northern Florida coast, now over the Gulf Stream, and without delay barrelled north up the Atlantic Seaboard.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 9:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) will launch its new electronic system to streamline the process for creating death records with a staggered rollout beginning on October 19 in eight counties
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2020 @ 4:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Gov. Roy Cooper announced a new web portal for North Carolina boards and commissions to streamline the application process for people who wish to serve and provide more information to the public
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 2:53 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Is Ocean Villas really qualified to have ascribed to it the timeshare "gold standard" of Gold Crown? As someone who usually picks the resorts they stay at by the quality of their RCI designation, I would have to admit ... yes.
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 12:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's public schools rely on a steady stream of out-of-state teachers to fill hard-to-staff positions and meet the demands of student enrollment growth
Published: Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 @ 12:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Following "Super Tuesday," both political parties are wondering how they can survive their nominees, while North Carolinians are pondering the impact on our state.
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2016 @ 10:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Two weeks into the hearing over North Carolina’s 2013 election laws, we have reached some conclusions.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Over the past two years, the University of North Carolina has been implementing recommendations laid out by the General Administration and Board of Governors in their 2013 report, Our Time, Our Future: the UNC Compact with North Carolina. For example, the system has streamlined the transfer...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The funds will be distributed to multiple eastern North Carolina counties for the removal of storm debris from streams. The counties include Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washing
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Raleigh, NC – Governor Pat McCrory announced the state has awarded nearly $1 million in grants for 10 projects that will help North Carolina towns and counties restore streams, reduce erosion, study future water supplies and benefit other water resources.
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The N&O chronicles the movie industry crybabies as they pack up to leave North Carolina in the wake of a state decision to trim and streamline benefits for filming in the state
Published: Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 @ 10:35 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Much has been written about the attorneys the Governor and the legislative leaders have hired to defend the Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA) against lawsuits brought by the NC-NAACP, the ACLU and the U.S. Justice Department. In contrast, to date, there have been no stories spotlighting the
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina has a genuine teacher recruitment and retention crisis. But it has nothing to do with tales of teacher discontent spun by the mainstream media, special-interest groups, and teacher unions.
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During most of its history, North Carolina was a state of widely dispersed residents. There were no truly big cities, many small towns, and fewer sparsely populated counties than, say, Virginia or Georgia had. Particularly along the state's rivers and streams, you'd find a thriving mill town or...
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Got a flat tire? *Man, if the Democrats still controlled the legislature, that nail would NEVER have been in the road.*
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 12:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In nearly three decades of writing a syndicated column on North Carolina politics and government, I've always received a steady stream of reader response. In the days before email, I'd get an occasional phone call or personal letter, but most of the response came in the form of letters to the...
Published: Saturday, October 26th, 2013 @ 4:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While North Carolina's mainstream media was on its extended Labor Day vacation, The Heartland Institute decided to pick up the slack and do a little reporting about what's happening within our fair state's public education system
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've heard ad nauseum from Big Bill Barber, his non-working, loitering rabble, and their comrades in the mainstream media about how Republicans in Raleigh are "starving education."
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory's Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina is an innovative approach to redesign the state's Old Medicaid system into a safety net that improves patients' health and saves taxpayer dollars.
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 10:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Drink plenty of Pepto-Bismol before turning on the local TV news Tuesday morning.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's a year before the primary vote to pick a GOP challenger to North Carolina's "Accidental Senator."™
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 11:02 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The mainstream media (MSM) has sounded the alarm and taken to battlestations. Their highest ranking, like-minded, last-standing, pantsuit-wearing political ally is in the crosshairs of the dreaded Republicans.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2013 @ 11:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A Tea Party-aligned Missouri congresswoman and the new North Carolina Department of Transportation secretary are the latest Republicans to get knee-capped by the mainstream media -- courtesy of McClatchy Newspapers.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 5:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's interesting to see what's left of North Carolina's mainstream media thoroughly inspecting Pat McCrory's transition team, agenda, and appointees.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 1:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In nearly three decades of writing a syndicated column on North Carolina politics and government, I've always received a steady stream of reader response.
Published: Friday, August 10th, 2012 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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