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Beaufort County Community College (Beaufort CCC) is proud to announce its top-tier ranking in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) for persistence and progression metrics.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2025 @ 10:31 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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RALEIGH: With Christmas right around the corner, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Emergency Management (NCEM) will once again be monitoring Santa’s progress as he approaches North Carolina.
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2023 @ 8:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper has announced that he will appoint progressive attorney Allison Riggs to the North Carolina Court of Appeal. Riggs will complete the term of Richard Dietz, who won election to the North Carolina Supreme Court last November as part of a Republican sweep of statewide judicial elections
Published: Monday, January 2nd, 2023 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Growing backlash against progressive policies implemented by school boards across the nation could manifest itself this year in North Carolina’s school districts.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2022 @ 12:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The elitist progressives can’t hide their disdain for the working people of North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The progressive left in North Carolina has for years attempted to paint a narrative that the conservative tax reforms over the last several years have starved state government of funding, and have left budgets “cut to the bone.”
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 8:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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About this time last year, progressive activists and Democratic politicians were trumpeting the news that North Carolina was 49th in the country in friendliness to teachers, according to a study by the website WalletHub.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper continues to hold up progress on North Carolina’s state budget – holding it hostage over liberal Medicaid expansion with no guarantee of continued federal dollars.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 7:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, at the opening of the 2019 Opioid Summit, Governor Roy Cooper highlighted the state’s progress in addressing the opioid epidemic over the last two years and launched the updated Opioid Action Plan 2.0 to continue to combat this issue in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 8:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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To honor the progress made in the LGBTQ rights movement, Gov. Cooper proclaimed June as LGBTQ Pride month in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 7:05 am
By: Governor's Office
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The NC Justice Center is the preeminent progressive think tank in North Carolina. The organization describes itself as a "progressive research and advocacy organization."
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released its Health Equity Report for 2018, which shows progress and areas for continued improvement for a healthier North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After years of trying but failing to block the implementation of conservative policies in Raleigh, the state's progressive movement has a new rhetorical theme: North Carolina's recent economic performance has been lagging behind that of our neighbors
Published: Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 @ 9:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 2016 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic politicians, progressive activists, and left-leaning media outlets excoriated Pat McCrory and other North Carolina Republicans for elevating divisive social disputes above the issues that most voters care most about, such as creating jobs and impr
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats, progressive activists, and left-leaning editorialists haven't liked past ideas from Republicans to change the way North Carolina's elections are run
Published: Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 @ 1:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since North Carolina enacted a major tax reform package in 2013, left-of-center politicians and pundits have lamented the disappearance of a progressive income tax
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats believe that their progressive policies would be best for North Carolina's economy
Published: Thursday, September 7th, 2017 @ 1:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are just as many fads in politics as there is in other fields of human endeavor, from entertainment to home remedies
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2017 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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True, longtime Raleigh News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen might have written his latest piece before reading last week’s Carolina Journal Daily Journal on recent progressive changes to North Carolina’s personal income tax
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory is urging people to be aware of dangerous conditions that persist in flooded areas even as relief efforts are making progress in central and eastern North Carolina in response to Hurricane Matthew
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 4:15 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Is There a Formula to Charter School Success?
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's Press Office issued the following statement from Press Secretary Graham Wilson
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 1:11 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Government requires money to do its work. Anarchists disagree. But for the vast majority of us, the real debates involve, first, how much money government needs and, second, how government ought to collect that money
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political progressives aren't the only ones who see value in adding more "progressivity" to the state's personal income tax. A Republican-sponsored bill that won unanimous support last week in the N.C. Senate would accomplish that goal
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Center For American Progress recently released a so-called "study" pegging the economic losses facing North Carolina over its bathroom privacy law at over half a billion dollars.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 12:21 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Progressive critics of North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reforms are quick to seize on topline unemployment rate figures in an attempt to discredit the rate cuts. But a closer look shows that in fact our state has enjoyed stellar job growth since taxes were cut.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Ever since Republicans gained majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 and won the governor's office in 2012, Democrats and Progressives have lamented the decline of higher education and especially the University of North Carolina System. Critics of North Carolina Republicans...
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Historically, higher education has been relatively left alone by the North Carolina legislature; this year represents a slight departure from that trend. For one thing, Governor McCrory has made the community colleges a focus of his administration and has called attention to their needs.
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2015 @ 12:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory discussed the progress North Carolina has experienced in job creation, innovation and public-private sector cooperation as part of a panel of governors at the Milken Institute's 2015 Global Conference held in Los Angeles.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 5:53 pm
By: Chris Downey
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"We must raise the minimum wage." That is one mantra emanating from progressives across the country and here in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, January 24th, 2015 @ 7:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jim Graham, our late Commissioner of Agriculture, used to entertain audiences by braying like a mule, explaining that the mule was not only the symbol of the Democratic Party but also a reminder of our roots as an agricultural state.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:43 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Progressive protesters, including "Moral Monday" demonstrators, have for roughly the past year voiced their opposition to a supposed state "tax increase" passed last year. Specifically, they gripe that the landmark 2013 North Carolina tax reform - which lowered income tax rates on all income...
Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ 8:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Jack Hawke not only epitomized North Carolina's political progress over the past decade, he brought good cheer and upbeat spirits to everyone he encountered.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 @ 9:22 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Absurd headlines are springing up in newspapers all across North Carolina stating: "Tax Credit Costs $336 Million in State Revenue."
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the results of national reading exams. They showed that North Carolina was one of only five states that posted significant gains in 4th-grade reading...
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, I got my bill from Duke Energy Progress, or whatever it is this week. I sure was glad that by paying it I was helping out the beleaguered pig farmers of North Carolina.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2013 @ 9:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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“Fascists,” “bums,” and “killing machines.” That’s how conservatives and Republicans were described at the initial meeting of a new organization of faculty members in North Carolina. The group, named “Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina,” was formed in response to...
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2013 @ 5:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Duke Energy's CEO Jim Rogers issued a veiled threat to the NC Utilities Commission: if they don't approve the 7.2 percent rate increase his company requested Duke could move their corporate headquarters to another state.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The company formerly known as Progress Energy, now part of the Duke Energy monopoly, is seeking a 14 percent hike in electric rates for households in its North Carolina territory.
Published: Monday, October 15th, 2012 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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