Leandro plaintiffs are asking the state Supreme Court to reject a petition from state legislative leaders. Top lawmakers want the high court to take another look at the long-running education funding lawsuit.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 7:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers for state legislative leaders have signaled they intend to seek another state Supreme Court review of the Leandro education funding case.
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top N.C. legislative leaders are appealing the latest ruling in the long-running Leandro education funding case to the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2023 @ 7:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Superior Court Judge James Ammons has ordered $677 million in additional state spending to address obligations related to the long-running Leandro case.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 1:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in the long-running Leandro education funding case could set the state's funding obligation between $376 million and $677 million.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 8:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill filed Thursday in the N.C. Senate would repeal a law permitting state employee organizations to draft dues automatically from members’ paychecks.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 10:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Representatives Should Be More Transparent
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new calculation from N.C. state officials says more than $677 million of a court-ordered Leandro education plan remains unfunded.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 2:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While she might not have dreamt of state budgets since she was a little girl, fiscal analyst Paige Terryberry is indisputably an expert today.
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“Border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris‘ big plan to stop illegal immigration is to enact mass amnesty.
Published: Monday, October 17th, 2022 @ 2:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Legislators even create a special “Local Project Reserve”
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 4:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina House leaders have called a Health Committee meeting for first thing Thursday morning, June 23, 2022, to vote on a bill that would direct the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop a Medicaid Modernization Plan by December 15, 2022
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 5:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly convenes the 2022 short session after the longest long session in state history concluded in March.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina General Assembly convened the 2022 short session Wednesday, May 18 after the longest long session in state history concluded in March.
Published: Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 @ 11:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An honest assessment of our current fiscal situation is required
Published: Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 @ 9:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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New study shows state budgets getting slammed by Medicaid costs
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Steed
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Are nurse anesthetists overpaid by 74%? Are telemarketers underpaid by 25%?
Published: Sunday, May 9th, 2021 @ 5:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Here’s a question for North Carolina’s leaders: If what our state is experiencing right now isn’t a “Rainy Day,” pray tell what is?
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 8:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has just been re-elected.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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More than one N.C. political battle in recent years has generated a court case titled Cooper v. Berger.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NCAE is surly – again.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2020 @ 8:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Does our state government spend too much, too little, or just enough?
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2020 @ 6:41 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It’s not difficult to find bad policy examples from government-enacted lockdowns due to coronavirus, yet virtually none are worse than the idea of the federal government bailing out the states.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2020 @ 3:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The John Locke Foundation is leading a national effort to highlight a critical flaw in the $2 trillion federal relief package tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation is leading a national effort to highlight a critical flaw in the $2 trillion federal relief package tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2020 @ 9:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a Washington Examiner article primarily about Michael Bloomberg, Nick Stehle includes an interesting segment about the impact of socialized medicine.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 1:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an incredible act of acrobatics, the so-called “fact checkers” bent over backwards this week in order to simultaneously protect Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper from facing the political ramifications of his actions and take shots at the Republican leadership of the state legislature.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Most of us get the general idea of diminishing returns and diminishing marginal utility — even if we don’t know the technical terms.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 9:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"Leandro" is the name of the lead plaintiff in Leandro v. State of North Carolina, a 1994 lawsuit that centers on the state's constitutional duty to provide a "sound basic education" to all public school students.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although it may not appear so, the leaders of both major political parties in North Carolina favor lowering the tax burden of large businesses.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When North Carolina governors and lawmakers talk about “the state budget,” they rarely tell you the whole truth.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 8:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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