Republican legislators take paid vacation with no one to blame for budget impasse but themselves; Enactment of Medicaid Expansion and teacher raises hang in balance
Published: Thursday, September 14th, 2023 @ 5:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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ECU nursing faculty, staff support care for student's adopted newborn
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 1:39 pm
By: ECU News Services
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State Auditor Beth Wood’s office found that Shelton Jeffries, the former superintendent of Nash County Public Schools, violated his contract and district procedures by ringing up $45,690 in questionable expenses during his three-plus years at the helm.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Salena Zito writes for the New York Post about the damage done by President Biden’s early executive orders.
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 @ 3:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Twenty-four lawmakers leaving N.C. General Assembly in 2020
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Here at three takeaways from the 2019-20 session of General Assembly, which ended in November and will resume Jan. 14.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s been 51 days since Governor Cooper presented a balanced compromise budget offer.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 7:30 am
By: Governor's Office
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If there were one theme that defined North Carolina's legislature this decade it would be that they are a body of reformers
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 11:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The N.C. Senate voted to override two of Gov. Roy Cooper's remaining vetoes during a Wednesday evening session. With total debate time of less than 20 minutes and party-line votes of 30-9, both measures became law
Published: Friday, September 1st, 2017 @ 3:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has shot down legislators' attempts to clarify law allowing one state employee to draw separate paychecks from two state commissions
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been writing a regular column on North Carolina politics and public policy since 1986
Published: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 @ 5:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some education items in the Senate budget will remain, House leaders say
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to try to lure the film industry to make movies, TV shows, and commercials in North Carolina by returning to an abandoned tax incentives program is meeting resistance
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than 80 state, federal and veteran service providers focusing on homeless veterans opened a two-day event at the McKimmon Center today to coordinate innovative actions to address homelessness among former service members. The Rapid Results Veteran Boot Camp is part of Governor Pat McCrory's...
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 1:13 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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I’ve never been a big fan of study commissions organized by politicians. They are almost always easy ways out for politicians looking to avoid having to take a tough stand on a controversial issue.
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 7:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Cumberland County has grown accustomed to political theater, especially when it's engulfed by rumor and innuendo. And for the third straight state Senate election, the dirty drama has returned.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 10:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Responding to a State Board of Elections investigation looking into the possible use of campaign funds for personal benefit, state Rep. Michael Wray, D-Northampton, has submitted a document to the board that is at odds with public statements he has made about his campaign fund spending.
Published: Saturday, August 2nd, 2014 @ 10:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Michael Wray, a Democrat from Gaston who serves as deputy minority leader in the state House of Representatives, owes more than $100,000 in past-due federal, state, and local taxes, according to public records on file in Northampton and Halifax Counties.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory will make three immediate appointments to the State Board of Education.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 2:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The McClatchy gang has its pantyhose in a wad over revelations that Senator Fletcher Hartsell (R-Cabarrus), unopposed in November, spent $100,000 in campaign funds -- much of which appears to be on personal matters.
Published: Sunday, January 13th, 2013 @ 7:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Randell Woodruff, currently the Camden County Manager, is hired to be Beaufort County's next county manager. By a vote of 6 to 1, the county commissioners appointed the 54 year old executive to take over the reins from Interim County Manager Jim Chrisman.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 @ 8:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Butterfield did not pay any lip service to Woolard's demand for his resignation during his speech yesterday morning before the Beaufort County Democratic Party Executive Committee.
Published: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
By: BCN
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