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The NC General Assembly has wrapped the scheduled October session, but tensions are still running high between the chambers over a Medicaid rebase stalemate and its increasing sticker shock.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2025 @ 5:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly continued taking up significant, and at times controversial, policy items this week.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Neither state Senate Democrat who initially voted for the Free the Smiles legislation last month was willing to stick with that “yes” vote this week.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 5:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives wants colleagues to override the governor’s veto of a bill ending school mask mandates. It would mark the first time in a year that lawmakers have tried to overturn a gubernatorial veto.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It was my vision, my words, North Carolina's problem, the general assembly's senate initiative, and our state's Democratic Governor's negligence in favor of political expediency, and Beaufort County's Commissioners just can't make a suitable stand to do what is right.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Who among us truly cares enough to reverse this malaise that I predict will continue to fester into our largest unwelcome worry for this new generation of children, rising up, if immediate action to remedy this impossible course of utter inaction is not reclaimed. from apathy?
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 10:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Carteret County resident Christine Hanks never cared much for politics.
Published: Saturday, April 17th, 2021 @ 8:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents in 14 North Carolina public school districts would have the option of sending their children to full-time, in-person instruction under a local bill approved by the N.C. House K-12 Education Committee on Tuesday, March 9.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 5:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says lawmakers are negotiating with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, on a plan to reopen schools.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 4:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After coming up one vote short in its first effort to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill to reopen schools, the Senate is moving to try again.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 10:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday, March 4, calling on all public school districts to give parents the option of in-person learning by the end of March.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A majority of North Carolina public school students failed to pass end-of-course tests in fall 2020, according to new data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on Senate Bill 37
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 12:11 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s 11th-hour veto of a school reopening bill Friday isn’t sitting well with nearly half of North Carolina likely voters, a Civitas Flash Poll shows.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Senate on Monday failed to override Governor Cooper’s veto of SB37, legislation that would have required districts to provide in-person learning.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. General Assembly on Monday, March 1, tried but failed — by one vote, 29-20 — to override the governor’s veto of a bill to reopen schools.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican leaders in the N.C. General Assembly say they will consider overriding the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 37, the school reopening bill, as soon as Monday, March 1.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 8:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed bipartisan legislation to reopen N.C. public schools statewide.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 1:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Mental health experts who are also parents with students in Wake County Public Schools are sounding an alarm over a rising mental health crisis due to a lack of full-time classroom instruction.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the following bill: Senate Bill 37
Published: Monday, March 1st, 2021 @ 10:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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Republicans in the General Assembly are criticizing Gov. Roy Cooper for his inaction on a bill that would reopen schools for in-person instruction.
Published: Thursday, February 25th, 2021 @ 9:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State House lawmakers from two of the state's largest school districts are calling on Governor Roy Cooper to stop delaying and sign Senate Bill 37, which ensures every family in North Carolina has access to in-person learning in K-12 public schools if they so choose.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 10:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — February 19
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 12:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As state lawmakers try to sort out when students can go back to school full time, members of the House are sponsoring a bill that would offer a voluntary summer school program for North Carolina students.
Published: Thursday, February 18th, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s call for more money for schools while also indicating he would veto a bill that could send students back to school has many in the state scratching their heads.
Published: Monday, February 15th, 2021 @ 9:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the North Carolina House approved bipartisan legislation (Senate Bill 37) to ensure families have the ability to choose between in-person instruction or remote learning in K-12 public schools.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCACC Weekly Update — February 5
Published: Monday, February 8th, 2021 @ 9:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. lawmakers have sent a bill to reopen schools for K-12 students to the Senate floor.
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2021 @ 5:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate has tentatively voted to reopen schools, despite pushback from Democrats to block full in-person learning for older students.
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2021 @ 10:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Both political parties are throwing their weight behind school reopening in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2021 @ 11:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law: Senate Bill 379 & 10 others.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 11:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate Bill 584, Criminal Law Reform, is another attempt to clean up North Carolina’s mishmash of criminal laws. Picking through the disarray is proving a slow process for lawmakers.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 8:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The House Energy and Public Utilities Committee on Tuesday, June, 25, approved a version of a bill to restrict new wind turbines near military bases, eliminating a proposed ban that was part of the original bill.
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2019 @ 7:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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