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A $2.5-billion-dollar bond referendum is slated to be placed on the November ballot this year, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) looks for support to fund 30 different projects in the school district.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 10:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Folwell said the consolidation of healthcare has resulted in lower quality, lower access, and higher cost.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 7:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Approves Nearly $750 Million in School Bonds for Durham, Union, Watauga Counties
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 11:05 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Raleigh, Charlotte Also Given Green Light to Finance Over Half-Billion Dollars in Bonds
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 10:29 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Property taxes on homeowners will increase $418 on average after vote on new $861 million budget
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Americans for Tax Reform lauds N.C. legislators as national leaders in "advancing pro-growth tax policies."
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 5:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Guilford County accused of illegal electioneering in favor of school bond referendum, sales tax hikeA candidate for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has accused the county government of using public dollars to illegally promote the passage of a $1.7 billion school bond and quarter cent sales tax increase.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Guilford County has a 1.7 billion dollar school bond referendum on their upcoming primary ballots. There is now a complaint that the county government has been involved in violating state election laws
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 10:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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If all goes as planned, Wake County voters will be asked to approve a nearly $900 million bond referendum this November.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is poised to make great gains as we recover from the pandemic.
Published: Saturday, April 10th, 2021 @ 1:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House.
Published: Sunday, February 14th, 2021 @ 8:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The proposed $1.6 billion Guilford County Schools bond–and the proposed sales tax hike referendum to pay for it—were on thin ice anyway in the wake of the coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 @ 5:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week I posted the Rhino Times story on Guilford County Schools’ plan to bus students to the polls for early voting.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 8:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine if you could buy a home with no debt. Wouldn’t you do that? State government has the option to do something similar with the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund, but Gov. Roy Cooper prefers debt.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 1:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ford Porter, spokesperson for Governor Roy Cooper, shared the following statement after the House and Senate Republicans released their conference budget:
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 3:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Despite objections from Democrats, the Senate Rules Committee passed a bill giving charter schools another avenue for approval of private bonds to pay for or refinance their facilities.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 10:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A nearly $2 billion school construction bond proposal sailed through its initial House vote with bipartisan support.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 5:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Those who want to build a new Beaufort County jail are back. They are the same kind of scheme that cost Beaufort County taxpayers over 40 million dollars in new schools about ten years ago.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 @ 1:05 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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With growing concerns about school safety, should schools be forced to open their doors to hundreds of unchecked adults?
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 2:41 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Roy Cooper today released his recommended budget for 2019-2021, Investments for a Determined North Carolina
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 6:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A Senate plan to pump $2.03 billion of tax revenue into K-12 public school construction would both outspend a competing House plan and do so with cash rather than debt, Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown, R-Onslow, said Wednesday.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2019 @ 12:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"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
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That famous punchline also comes to mind as this fan considers debate over state-funded public school construction in North Carolina. Yes, I'm linking one of North Carolina's most pressing policy discussions to "This Is Spinal Tap."
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 3:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Following a ceremonial and organizational session in early January, the General Assembly returned on Wednesday to begin the business of the 2019 long session.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 3:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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No self-respecting columnist passes up the obligatory prediction column the first week of the year. So here goes mine
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 11:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In addition to choosing representatives, and deciding six statewide constitutional amendments Tuesday, Nov. 6, North Carolina voters approved more than $1.8 billion in local bonds for K-12 and community college projects, parks and open spaces, low-income housing, and street improvements
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 @ 2:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few people seem to be noticing but property taxes for Wake County homeowners may be going up yet again
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2018 @ 10:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Stough Elementary school has seen a handful of repairs and renovations since it was built in 1968. The aging facility soon will be torn down, and a new building will take its place to accommodate more students without the need for mobile trailers
Published: Friday, August 10th, 2018 @ 8:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It would be easy to dismiss the recurring political battles between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly as pure partisan posturing
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Gov. Roy Cooper toured the halls of Stough Elementary School in Wake County, he criticized legislators for failing to put a nearly $2 billion school construction bond on the November ballot
Published: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 @ 9:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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