|
taxpayers reject spendthrift government that raised taxes 28%
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 @ 7:59 am
By: John Steed
|
|
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 @ 9:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Congress passed the annual defense policy bill this week, authorizing $886 billion for a host of national security programs for the current fiscal year that began on October 1 — about 3% higher than the previous year’s levels.
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 12:09 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
The writers strike which has dragged on for 148 days has come to an end as the WGA (Writers Guild of America) agreed to a deal.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 4:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Merit-based teacher pay rewards excellence and encourages outstanding teachers to enter and remain in the profession
Published: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The State Employee Association of North Carolina (SEANC) is lobbying on behalf of state workers in favor of a 5% pay raise for the next two years.
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 @ 1:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Democrats are pushing a plan to give federal workers a massive pay raise because they claim that former President Donald Trump was “cruel” and because the coronavirus pandemic was hard.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 @ 4:07 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
President Joe Biden is planning to give federal employees a substantial pay raise in 2023.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 9:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
US taxpayers funding Ukrainian parliament's raises
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
|
|
The Biden administration is considering using taxpayer funds to pay for women in states where abortion may be outlawed to travel to obtain them, a move sure to raise legal questions in the wake of Friday’s decision striking down Roe v. Wade.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Some will make more than the elected folks
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 10:20 am
By: Countrygirl1411
|
|
The new state budget provides an increase of 1.3 percent for each step of the salary schedule. In addition to several bonuses the budget also gives teachers an average 5 percent pay raise over two years.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The House on Thursday passed by voice vote an annually required measure to increase cost-of-living adjustments tied to veterans benefits in parity with the COLA approved by the Social Security Administration.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 @ 12:18 am
By: George H. Schryer
|
|
North Carolinians support Governor Roy Cooper’s push for increased school funding, higher teacher pay raises and affordable healthcare by wide margins, a new poll release Friday shows.
Published: Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 @ 8:45 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
In all likelihood, Gov. Roy Cooper will have a competitive race for reelection in his bid for a second term in 2020.
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2019 @ 11:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
|
|
Today, Governor Cooper met with teachers in Durham to talk about the need for a significant pay raise.
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2019 @ 3:23 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
General Assembly would have to modify resolution for next week's session or call separate session to schedule overrides before January
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 @ 9:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Governor Roy Cooper called on legislators to stand with him and North Carolina’s teachers to demand negotiations on a real pay raise for all educators on the state payroll.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 8:11 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
North Carolina Republican Party spokesman Jeff Hauser released the following statement after Governor Cooper vetoed teacher pay raises and additional tax relief
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Rep. Jeffrey Elmore, R-Wilkes, said one of his teaching colleagues inadvertently took a pay cut.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Republican lawmakers are forcing their Democratic colleagues to choose between sustaining Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto or securing higher teacher pay raises.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 11:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
On Tuesday, Governor Cooper announced the creation of the Governor's Advisory Council on Film, Television and Digital Streaming at Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington.
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Today, Governor Roy Cooper held a roundtable discussion with teachers and administrators at Dixon Elementary School in Onslow County.
Published: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
The legislature has once again gone on vacation without doing anything for teachers who have started the school year without a state-funded pay raise.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 @ 5:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Governor Roy Cooper was in Asheville yesterday meeting with teachers to talk about the need for a significant teacher pay raise.
Published: Monday, October 14th, 2019 @ 3:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Today, Governor Roy Cooper heard from local educators in a roundtable discussion at North Buncombe Elementary School.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2019 @ 8:18 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
As legislative Republicans refuse to compromise with Governor Roy Cooper, another week has passed without a raise for North Carolina teachers.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 @ 11:10 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Legislative Republicans headed home last week without passing a budget or teacher pay raises and don’t plan to return until September 30th.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 3:40 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
The N.C. House on Wednesday, Aug. 28, unanimously passed pay raises for state employees.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 6:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
While the budget stalemate continues, lawmakers are working to pass pieces of the General Fund budget bill with measures that include pay raises for some state employees.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
It has been 52 days since Governor Roy Cooper sent Republican leaders a balanced budget compromise offer that included an 8.5% teacher pay raise that would keep North Carolina competitive in teacher salaries.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 11:23 am
By: Daniel Bunting
|
|
Today should be like any other day as children and teachers return to school: reunite with friends, new classes and new challenges, and another teacher pay raise.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
It’s been 44 days since Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders presented a balanced compromise budget offer that included a robust teacher pay raise.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 8:22 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
As they prepare for the start of the new school year, educators from across the state participated in a roundtable discussion with Governor Roy Cooper in Raleigh today.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 @ 2:14 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Many North Carolina teachers head back to school this week to prepare for the first day of class. Unfortunately, these hardworking teachers have not received a state pay raise this year because Republican stalling is holding up budget negotiations.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2019 @ 3:48 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
The Senate’s proposed biennial budget includes the largest pay raises for state employees in more than a decade, but doesn’t include a cost-of-living increase for state retirees.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 9:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The House on Monday, April 29, unveiled a $14 billion education budget for fiscal 2019-20.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 11:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
State Superintendent Mark Johnson has put a price tag on his plan to make North Carolina the best place for public school educators to begin, learn, and teach by 2030.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
"North Carolina should put a school bond to a vote so the people can decide whether to fix our old schools and build new ones. Skimming money that should go to teacher pay raises and other school funding is like using your gas money to buy a car."
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 7:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Five years ago, Senate Republicans made a promise to dramatically raise teacher pay in North Carolina. We've kept that promise. Moreover, the numbers speak for themselves
Published: Thursday, May 24th, 2018 @ 9:35 am
By: Bill Cook
|