Nearly three months into the fiscal year, a budget bill has finally arrived
Published: Monday, December 11th, 2023 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lower access to health care, higher tax burdens add up to ‘bad medicine’ for N.C.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 4:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper says his proposed 2022-23 budget adjustments would address unfunded pieces of a court-ordered Leandro school funding plan.
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Before agreeing to a schedule for adjourning this year’s legislative work, state lawmakers rejected one final push from Democrats to consider Medicaid expansion.
Published: Sunday, December 12th, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 105 will require a second vote Friday morning.
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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, April 10th, 2021 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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: Sunday, April 4th, 2021 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 recession in March, North Carolina policymakers have been watching government revenues and expenditures carefully.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 6:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Few people outside the bubble of N.C. state government seem to be paying much attention to the lingering impasse over a vetoed state budget.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 @ 8:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The budget passed the N.C. House in a controversial veto override, but the debate over Medicaid expansion is far from over.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Try as they might, the General Assembly has had a hard time garnering the needed votes from the Democratic caucus to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 6:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state government entered its 2019-20 fiscal year on July 1 without a new state budget in place. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led legislature haven’t agreed to one, yet.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the biennial budget bill, saying North Carolina residents are dying because Republicans won’t expand Medicaid rolls.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 1:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Every one of us could find some productive use of an extra $20. Those at the lower end of the income scale are most likely to notice whether that money ends up in their wallet or with the N.C. Department of Revenue.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 4:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The second week of the 2019 long session saw continued bill filing and a handful of legislative committees.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 7:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s 2018 "short" legislative session will get into full swing later this spring – after the brief special sessions begun last week conclude
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 12:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Cooper offered no details, and it's not clear how he allocated various pieces of the tax package included in the 2017-19 budget plan
Published: Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Civics class teaches us that each member of a legislative chamber has an equal vote. Crossover week at the N.C. General Assembly reminds us that some of those votes are more equal than others
Published: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hurricane Matthew still sits a couple of days away from the North Carolina coast, and those in its projected path root for the storm to turn to the east
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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So far this year, we've had three state budget plans submitted by the three main actors in the drama: Gov. Pat McCrory, the North Carolina House, and the North Carolina Senate
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2016 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's largest cities dealt with nearly 240 economic development contracts and promised $65 million in incentives from 2009 to 2014
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 7:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radios are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation. Or they attack with a sensational
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory yesterday unveiled his recommended budget adjustments for the 2014-15 fiscal year. The governor's plan would make changes to the second year of the two-year state budget plan passed last year.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The latest federal employment data for North Carolina support the case that a fiscally conservative approach to state fiscal policy is helping improve the economy's long-term outlook. That's the assessment from John Locke Foundation President John Hood.
Published: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 10:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Gov. Pat McCrory released his first state budget plan on the morning March 20, I happened to be driving to Charlotte for a meeting.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, the Governor released his state budget plan for the next two fiscal years. I regret to inform you that the plan would divert all of the funds that the Golden LEAF Foundation would normally receive beginning in April 2014 and thereafter.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 9:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina taxpayers struggling with a sluggish economy would not have to worry about new taxes or fees under the 2012-13 state budget plan moving through the N.C. House.
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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