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The $1.4 billion allocation for a non-profit called NCInnovation in the state Senate’s budget plan has raised some eyebrows. Given that this appropriation to the barely five-year-old non-profit organization would amount to nearly five percent of the entire state General Fund budget, it should.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson issued an order stating that the state budget fell short of the Leandro comprehensive remedial plan by $785 million.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 2:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tucked into the new state budget are billions of dollars from Washington for Covid relief. The American Rescue Plan Act, for example, sent $5.4 billion to the state.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 1:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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A pay-as-you-go approach to capital projects sets the Senate apart from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, whose budget plan called for a $4.7 billion statewide bond package.
Published: Friday, June 25th, 2021 @ 6:55 am
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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North Carolina legislative leaders released their agreed-upon budget proposal Monday, with votes expected to take place this week
Published: Monday, June 4th, 2018 @ 11:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you've ever put together a jigsaw puzzle you can understand the task of assembling a state budget. Like a puzzle, one piece of the spending and tax plan builds upon another as lawmakers construct a two-year budget that spends more than $23 billion a year
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 @ 10:12 am
By: Tom Campbell
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About a week ago, in his state of the state address, Cooper talked about many things. He discussed his budget plans and House Bill 2. He talked about education and the need to recruit the best teachers
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the state budget agreement moves through the legislative approval process toward Gov. McCrory's desk, there is plenty of media coverage summarizing the major issues addressed in this year's spending plan, such as teacher pay, tax cuts and rainy day funds
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Early Friday morning, the state Senate approved its version of the $22.2 billion General Fund budget, setting the stage for negotiations with the House on a spending plan that legislative leaders hope will be completed before the new fiscal year begins on July 1.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State lawmakers in Raleigh are about to release their budget plans for the 2016-17 fiscal year
Published: Thursday, May 19th, 2016 @ 3:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Unable to reach an agreement on a state General Fund budget, legislative leaders plan to extend their temporary budget continuing resolution until September 18...
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2015 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Vidant Health continues to assess the potential impacts of an incomplete state budget, including the uncertainty of Medicaid reform, its Board of Directors approved the fiscal year 2016 operational plan today.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 4:31 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The North Carolina Senate this week unveiled its state budget spending for the upcoming FY 2015-16 fiscal year. The plan includes total spending of $21.47 billion, compared to $22.15 billion in the House budget plan.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2015 @ 3:23 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State lawmakers have started reviewing Gov. Pat McCrory's budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium. It sets out McCrory's General Fund spending plan for $22 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. The General Fund makes up a significant chunk of the overall state budget of more than...
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the weeks leading up to Walker's February 3 state budget address, the governor leaked his plan to cut the system's budget by $300 million during 2016 and 2017. (The university system made up about 19 percent of the state's overall spending in 2013-15.) The president of the system, Ray Cross...
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 1:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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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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Gov. Pat McCrory's budget calls for teachers and state employees to get raises, the environmental police to add 19 positions to monitor coal ash, and budget authors to keep the state's spending plan structurally sound.
Published: Saturday, May 17th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
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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