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All news accounts described the recently passed state budget as spending $30 billion
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 1:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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WASHINGTON, NC— Beaufort County Community College cut the ribbon on its new building to house its boat manufacturing program on October 26.
Published: Saturday, November 11th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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The North Carolina Senate released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, with the expectation of meeting with the state House to establish a conference budget before the current fiscal year ends on June 30
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, and the North Carolina Senate is scheduled to release its version next before the two chambers meet to establish a conference budget
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Community College awarded the contract for construction of a new building to house its boat manufacturing program to A.R. Chesson Construction.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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ECU leaders extend gratitude for new medical education building funding
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 9:49 am
By: ECU News Services
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The last puzzle pieces of a new budget are finally coming together, as both the House and the Senate passed the $25.9 billion budget for the biennium. It is now headed to Gov. Roy Cooper, who announced earlier this week that he intends to sign it.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly is expected to being voting Tuesday on the newly-released 2021-23 conference budget.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 9:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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East Carolina University and the Brody School of Medicine extend our sincerest gratitude to the State of North Carolina for its investment in a new medical education building and for its belief in Brody’s ability to serve the residents of our state.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 9:04 am
By: ECU News Services
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NCACC Weekly Update — June 25
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 3:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Overall spending growth will be below GOP's self-imposed spending limitation of population plus inflation increases
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 8:40 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: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers spent Tuesday, Oct. 8, advancing four mini-budget plans as the budget veto stalemate drags on into another month.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 7:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In June, the Republican-dominated General Assembly passed a state budget that included pay increases for our public school teachers and for non-certified school personnel.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 3:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders today offered Republican leadership a state budget compromise proposal that would close the health care coverage gap, raise teacher pay, cut taxes for people and guarantee school construction while balancing the budget and saving money in the Rainy Day Fund
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In a news release issued Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper’s spokesman made it clear: Medicaid expansion must be part of any General Fund budget he signs.
Published: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper finally sat down with Republican legislative leaders Wednesday, June 19, less than two weeks before the end of the fiscal year, to negotiate a budget.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate’s proposed biennial budget includes the largest pay raises for state employees in more than a decade, but doesn’t include a cost-of-living increase for state retirees.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 9:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The House proposed budget lowers some taxes, creates others, and cuts against the grain of past Republican efforts to prioritize savings reserves as a rainy day buttress to economic downturns and natural disasters.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 9:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Residents in Wilson, Salisbury, Mooresville, Davidson, and Morganton were being hit with higher taxes and even electricity and water rates as their cities were bleeding money. Why?
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With each step of the budget process, the lines become clearer in the battle over the future of North Carolina for state employees, taxpayers, and citizens.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders have reached agreement on a 2019-20 General Fund budget cap of slightly more than $24 billion, shaving about $500 million from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed spending plan
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2019-20 General Assembly session is well under way. Bills are being filed and committees are meeting, but the attention will soon fall on the biennial budget, which the governor introduced this week and included new and expanded spending, including a 9.1 percent raise for teachers
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Of that money, $1.5 billion would go to public schools. Community colleges would get $200 million, and the state's universities would receive the remaining $200 million.
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 @ 1:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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