Legislators added a provision to the state budget that would make them functionally exempt from public records law
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state Court of Appeals panel will decide whether Charlotte should have produced city council survey results more quickly when WBTV requested those results as public records.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 3:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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 newly configured N.C. Supreme Court, with a 5-2 Republican majority, hears its first oral arguments on Tuesday.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 10:05 pm
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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"Closed to the public—parents not welcome."
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 6:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Honor Bestowed for Transparency in Providing Information Exposing Fraud in State's HOPE Program
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 11:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly did not conduct any public business this week.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 30
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 4:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 16
Published: Friday, July 30th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 9
Published: Monday, July 19th, 2021 @ 5:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 1
Published: Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 @ 11:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 9
Published: Monday, April 12th, 2021 @ 10:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners have been invited to take a tour of Pamlico Yachtworks, located at 230 Clarks Neck Road, Washington, NC on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 9:00 AM.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2021 @ 1:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Prince William Circuit Court is considering whether the Democrat members of the board violated law by holding a meeting in secret
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 12:18 am
By: Judicial Watch
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Judicial Watch announced today that it has teamed up with residents of Prince William County, Virginia, and their Virginia law firm, McSweeney, Cynkar & Kachouroff, PLLC to file a lawsuit against members of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 5:40 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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At best, 38 legislators are refusing to comply with state law
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 12:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week was Sunshine Week, not that we saw a lot of it, either meteorologically or metaphorically. What we got for the start of the week was dark clouds, some wind and even snow. Some might say it was symbolic of a week designated to shine the light on the need for open government
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 10:41 am
By: Tom Campbell
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s selection for chief deputy attorney general wrote a legal memo supporting “contingency funds” that were outside legislative oversight in an opinion that seemed to be at odds with his boss at the time, Roy Cooper, who now is North Carolina’s governor
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2017 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has been ordered to expedite review of a lawsuit involving a newspaper's request to see records detailing the firing of the superintendent of the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education
Published: Saturday, February 14th, 2015 @ 12:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Indian Trail Councilman David Waddell chose to submit his resignation from the council in Klingon - the fictional language of the aliens from the "Star Trek" franchise - it was just one of many unusual things going on in the bedroom community near Charlotte.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." Unfortunately, Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor - and former dean - at UNC-Chapel Hill's law school, appears to have no...
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 10:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Many would consider it bad enough that a majority of the Wake County Board of Education last week approved an ethics policy that could be manipulated or abused to hammer political opponents on the board publicly. But the rest of the story, as radio commentator Paul Harvey famously said, would...
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After reading letters addressed to him, Nathaniel Macon burned them. More than once, he likely tossed the papers into the fireplace in the spartan...
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the McCrory administration is hailing an overhaul of the way North Carolina recruits business, open government advocates worry that...
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every policy and decision by government has economic costs, and more so when the policy interferes with or, worse, prevents some market choices. Such negative economic effects are what make even more pernicious the practice of cronyism.
Published: Friday, July 20th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An organization founded by ex-Sen. John Edwards was meant to fight poverty, but many clues suggest it instead focuses more on fighting partisan battles- and to avoid scrutiny by North Carolina taxpayers.
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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