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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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After a New Mexico sheriff stated that his office would not enforce a segment of the Democratic governor’s order suspending the right to carry open and concealed guns publicly the governor mocked the sheriff, declaring “It’s not for police to tell me what’s constitutional or not.”
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 7:08 am
By: Daily Wire
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Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency over inflation on Tuesday and suspended the gas tax in Georgia, saying federal spending and energy policies were to blame for high fuel prices.
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 5:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Russia issued a warrant on Monday seeking the arrest of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after the release of an edited video that made it appear the lawmaker was celebrating the United States spending money on the killing of Russians in Ukraine.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 4:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina General Assembly is set to take up the veto override of SB20, the Care for Women, Children, and Families Act, much to the chagrin of Gov. Roy Cooper, who has conducted a pressure campaign in an attempt to swing legislators.
Published: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 4:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Legislative leaders call for new Leandro Judge James Ammons to slice the state's education spending obligation from $677 million to $377 million.
Published: Sunday, April 9th, 2023 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper gave his fourth and final State of the State address Monday night to what appeared to be, at times, a divided room between Democrats and Republicans.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 6:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina would face a new limit on state government spending growth under the Taxpayer Protection Act legislation filed Monday in the N.C. House.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on Biden’s $6.9 trillion tax-and-spending spree:
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 5:55 pm
By: ENC NOW
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) today questioned witnesses from the United States Secret Service, the Justice Department and the Government Accountability Office on improper government spending of federal COVID-19 relief money.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:01 am
By: ENC NOW
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something NC should do
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 10:32 am
By: John Steed
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U.S. State Department officials defended themselves Sunday after awarding Ecuador a grant of over $20,000 for a cultural center to host drag shows for LGBTQ communities in the South American country.
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 10:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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State visitor spending in 2021 would have needed to be another $2 billion higher to break even with the 2019 record
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 2:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court questioned lawyers on both sides of a dispute over $785 million in additional education spending tied to the Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 6:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Joe Biden is set to embark on part three of his two-week vacation away from doing God knows what in the White House. With no traditional press conference lined up, Americans have no way of knowing what the president is really up to in The First State — where he currently is spending his ti
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 10:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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Moody's states that the average family is spending nearly $6,000 more than last year.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2022 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) unloaded on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in a statement on Monday evening after Manchin explained earlier in the day that he was opposed to Biden’s massive social spending bill because it would cause an “economic crisis.”
Published: Monday, August 8th, 2022 @ 8:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Who decides the standards and curriculum? The state? Local school boards? We'll talk to NC Treasurer and State School Board member Dale Folwell and ask him about this and public school spending.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Woodard
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National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said on Wednesday that the United States can address high inflation by passing more spending bills.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 9:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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State legislative leaders argue a trial court's $785 million Leandro spending order exceeds judicial authority over public education.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers representing the N.C. State Board of Education label a forced transfer of $785 million for Leandro spending "appropriate" and "necessary."
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 8:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs seeking $785 million in new state education spending are renewing their appeals to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit signaled Friday that he will produce an order next week calling for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Soars to No. 2 Ranking on Key National Economic Outlook Index; State Debt Set to Fall Over 60% in 8-Year Period
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Plaintiffs and N.C. Justice Department lawyers are urging a judge to order $795 million in new state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New Treasury guidance on state and local Covid relief spending is a nod to government and a flippant disregard of taxpayers and small businesses.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A report from the leftist site Mother Jones states that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has told his colleagues he may exit the Democratic Party if President Joe Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill stonewall his demand for a reduction of the social spending bill from a whopping $3.5 trillion to $1.75.
Published: Sunday, December 19th, 2021 @ 7:09 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a retired trial judge’s order forcing state officials to transfer $1.7 billion out of the state treasury for education-related spending.
Published: Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Local tech CEO bankrolls consultants, universities, and politicians in an effort to control the state's education spending and inserts a political agenda into the classroom.
Published: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 8:05 am
By: John Woodard
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) released the following statement after voting against President Biden’s social spending agenda, H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 11:48 am
By: Kate Currie
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The N.C. Department of Transportation continues to be under the watchful eye of the state auditor, who in a report released this week says that department failed to exceed its developed spending plan only by pure luck.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative legislative leadership has held state spending growth in check over the last decade.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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“[Expanding Medicaid would] provide health care to tens of thousands of hard-working North Carolinians and save state taxpayers’ millions in the process.”
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Although there are already hundreds of different types of potatoes in the United States, the government wants additional varieties and is spending $2.5 million to develop more kinds.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 4:17 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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The Trump re-election campaign is pulling television ads from the air in several swing states including Ohio, Iowa, and Nevada, amid concerns about over-spending and a smaller-than-expected August fundraising haul.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Because the state hasn't passed an actual budget bill since FY 2018-19, however, the recommendations are essentially spending adjustments because there is no actual budget to adjust.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Many years ago the head of Sears Roebuck’s advertising department reported that half of all the dollars they spent on advertising was wasted, he just didn’t know which half.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 @ 10:05 am
By: Tom Campbell
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