RALEIGH: On November 3, Governor Cooper sent a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan strongly urging EPA to reverse the decision to allow the import of waste material containing GenX to the Chemours facility in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 12:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A Denver suburb voted to ban new gas stations from being built in the name of combatting climate change.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 8:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other”
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even in the bastion of duplicity, representatives in Washington D.C. must attach their names to their pork spending projects in a piece of legislation, a bare minimum for transparency’s sake.
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2022 @ 2:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week Congress passed H.R. 2471, a $1.5 trillion spending omnibus package to fund the government through September. It was loaded with earmarks costing $9.7 billion.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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'If we do the same with the opioid settlement money as they did with the tobacco settlement deal, I’ll vote against myself.” — State Rep. Sasser, R-Stanly, a retired pharmacist who co-chairs the House Health Appropriations Committee
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all of our lives. But few in North Carolina can argue that they’ve taken as big a hit as owners and operators of private bars.
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2021 @ 8:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Let’s settle once and for all if there is bias in the media? YES!
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 6:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Politics is hyper partisan. Government is dysfunctional. People have lost faith that elected officials work for the common good.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 @ 11:47 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Gov. Roy Cooper will open Phase Two of his COVID-19 recovery plans Friday May 22, based on media reports and a document Carolina Journal obtained.
Published: Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 @ 7:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Whoopi Goldberg, on The View, flew into a tirade over the news that Justice Kennedy was retiring and that President Trump would be able to appoint a new Supreme Court justice.
Published: Sunday, July 8th, 2018 @ 5:23 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Reporting about U.S. Supreme Court debates often revolves around disagreements between liberal and conservative voting blocs
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tomorrow is the day we celebrate our nation's founding-and the first time that a nation was deliberately founded on reason and the rule of law instead of on accidents of history. The central question of this article is "how are the founding and related topics treated in today's academia?" It is a...
Published: Sunday, July 12th, 2015 @ 11:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Right-leaning lawyers and legal analysts agree that the courts are a vital venue for preserving constitutional rights. But they note a surprising trend of conservative support for using judicial activism to achieve that aim rather than the traditional conservative deference to state and federal...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A couple of weeks ago I discussed an excellent NC Court of Appeals decision in which the Court held that development moratoria imposed under the Map Act constitute takings for which just compensation must be paid. Today I'm happy to report that the General Assembly is already responding to that hold
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you were tuning in to discover the direction of your nation for the next year, you would have been sadly misinformed.
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is no small irony that Republicans want to investigate left-leaning groups, because for years it was the other way around.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A bill allowing the treasurer more leeway to invest the state pension plan in riskier portfolios is set tonight for its first Senate floor vote.
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The NC Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) recently published an article about nullification, asserting that it not a legitimate constitutional remedy.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The English Bill of Rights was clearly a precursor to our US Bill of Rights.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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