The NC Court of Appeals will allow a former Pinehurst Village Council member to proceed with his open-meetings lawsuit against the village. The decision reverses a trial judge.
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 5:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has denied Charlotte's request to give more precedential value to a recent decision in a rezoning dispute.
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte has asked the N.C. Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision not to publish a recent ruling in a rezoning fight.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 12:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper has signed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics bill into law.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 12:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. legislature passed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The conference report for this bill is one of several policy measures working its way quickly through committees as lawmakers look to wrap up a drawn-out legislative session.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 4:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate has given final approval to HB-91, Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics, an effort to reform high school sports in North Carolina. The Senate approved the measure, 28-14, on its third and final reading.
Published: Friday, October 22nd, 2021 @ 8:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate leaders say they value government transparency — especially given the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 @ 6:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The House is wasting little time addressing the challenges COVID-19 has posed to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 2:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If a Florida parent wants to see the personnel file for their child’s public school teacher, the school would hand it over.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 10:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina System over transparency issues hope their case will pave the way for greater openness and accountability at UNC.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 3:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors has a transparency problem. Again.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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John Bussian is the principal of the Bussian Law Firm, which specializes in media litigation and has long been a national leader in defending the First Amendment.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 1:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As a result of a hearing in the Superior Court of Beaufort County on November 26, 2018, the court (Jeffery B. Foster, Judge presiding) denied the motion of the Plaintiffs (William Ray Leary, Donna Lay and Gerald Seighman) to compel the Commissioners.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Civitas Institute has filed a state ethics complaint against Gov. Roy Cooper, seeking a ruling and possible investigation into questions of his handling of $57.8 million from a utility coalition building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 @ 2:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As hundreds of bills are filed in the General Assembly, I ask: What problem are lawmakers trying to solve? If there is one, what should government do about it
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Media law experts believe the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission violated the spirit — if not the letter — of state laws requiring the conduct of public meetings in a transparent manner
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 9:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said he is "alarmed" that the state Department of Public Instruction and State Board of Education agreed, possibly in violation of state open meetings laws and legislative requirements, to shift funds intended to help children learn to read into maintai
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 6:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether this immutable fact threatens your delicate sensitivities or not, Commissioner Richardson is far often than not on the right side of every issue he challenges, and in a fairly wide manner.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2015 @ 5:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Monday heard arguments in a public records case pitting an Alamance County newspaper against the local school board in a dispute that could establish guidelines for resolving future government secrecy complaints.
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Sunshine Week meeting to discuss a proposed new law making a violation of the state's open government laws found some senators not too keen on the idea.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week state Sens. Thom Goolsby (R-New Hanover) and Tom Apadoca (R-Buncombe) sponsored legislation (SB 125) to make it a class 3 misdemeanor to violate public records and open meetings laws, which would at long last give those laws some teeth.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We got it right last week with the article that accused the Economic Development Council (EDC) of trying to delay the approval of changes in the laws and by-laws until after the November election. Stan Deatherage and I had a stop gap measure which was the presentation of thirteen resolutions to th
Published: Monday, October 15th, 2012 @ 10:30 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Those who complied with N C General Statute 131E-13 are to be commended. They likely prevented a challenge to the contract with UHS being brought.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 @ 11:23 pm
By: Velma Hickman
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