Today, Governor Cooper, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore issued a statement regarding state economic recruitment following Apple's announced expansion
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 10:45 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper rejects an appeal from legislative leaders to convene a special session this week for Hurricane Florence relief efforts.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 @ 4:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Debate was more civil, but the outcome was the same. House Republicans followed the Senate's lead, voting 66-44 to pass a $23.9 billion General Fund budget, and sent it to Gov. Roy Cooper over Democrats' objections
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican House candidates on average spent 21 percent more than Democrats leading up to the May 8 primary contests But the total fundraising gap between the parties was small
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative leaders will boost tax-paid subsidies available in the $23.9 billion 2018-19 budget proposal to induce multibillion-dollar corporations to locate in the state
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative leaders removed some of the guesswork for the legislative short session starting May 16 by announcing they agreed to a $23.917 billion spending plan for the 2018-19 state budget
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, says an ethics complaint filed against him by a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit research organization is tainted by election-season politics
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With an unpopular president in the White House, a spate of incumbent retirements in competitive seats, and a relentless drumbeat of media hits against them, Republicans are clearly heading into a risky election cycle. So why are GOP leaders, particularly here in North Carolina, feeling cautiously op
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State income tax reforms have removed thousands of North Carolinians from the income tax rolls.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 3:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, used Gov. Roy Cooper's own words to urge him to sign a $23 billion General Fund budget, reminding him the N.C. Constitution gives more power to the General Assembly than the executive branch
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2017 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If it is modeled after a Medicaid expansion program, and is funded like a Medicaid expansion program, it is a Medicaid expansion program
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2017 @ 11:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Left-wing activists spent a year complaining that House Bill 2 was hurting North Carolina's business climate
Published: Thursday, April 6th, 2017 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Cooper administration may have lost a key ally in its attempt to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Cabinet agency that controls Medicaid
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore was unanimously nominated for his second term today.
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 11:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The ordinance threatens businesses with substantial fines and potential jail time should they seek to protect their patrons' safety and security:
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 8:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We hear a lot of lip service from Republicans in Raleigh about the beauty of the free market.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We expect that the official Conference Report will be ready on Sunday night. Please note that it has to be posted online for it to be read-in on Monday.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 3:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Speaker Tim Moore has made it clear that the House caucus will live or die at the hand of Cary's Nelson Dollar. Dollar has been pretty clear that he wants to spend MORE money and will not budge on anything.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2015 @ 8:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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For the second time in a little over three years, Tim Moore’s ethical choices have made him an easy target for Blinkin’ Chris’s comedy website.
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 @ 1:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Not too long ago, Gov. Pat McCrory and Speaker Tim Moore were telling us they could see no real need for a religious freedom restoration act.
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 10:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The House Appropriations Committees on Thursday morning began releasing their spending proposals for the 2015-17 budget cycle. Carolina Journal will post links to the committee reports as they are issued. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, says the chamber plans to complete the budget by the...
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As you may have heard, there is good news out of the state capital: General Fund revenue is now projected to grow significantly faster than budget officials and legislative staffers had once thought. The bad news, however, is that within minutes of this announcement, the spending lobbies and...
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2015 @ 10:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just like Jason Voorhees. You kill off B-corps in the General Assembly, and they rise from the dead.
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 3:15 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Our baby-faced House speaker appears to be caving to the drive-by hysteria on North Carolina's proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 1:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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That's right. You read it correctly. Leftist strategist Thomas Mills is praising the work of new Republican speaker Tim Moore
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2015 @ 8:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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House speaker Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP leadership in Raleigh are crowing about how much better off we’ll be now that they’ve approved an increase in the gas tax and the disbursement of even more corporate welfare.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 3:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Earlier today, the North Carolina General Assembly began its 2015 legislative session and Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement welcoming lawmakers back to the state capital.
Published: Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 @ 11:32 pm
By: Chris Downey
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North Carolina lawmakers will return to the state capital later in January with a lengthy agenda, including taking another crack at Medicaid reform, considering a $1 billion highway bond, and tackling what recent projections reveal to be a $190 million revenue shortfall.
Published: Monday, January 5th, 2015 @ 6:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the news broke that Rep. Tim Moore would be the Republican nominee for speaker of the North Carolina House and Rep. Mike Hager would be majority leader, the usual suspects did the usual things.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 10:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We reported earlier about a pretty harsh memo from the Administrative Office of The Courts explaining that court officials have two choices regarding gay marriages: perform them, or quit.
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I wasn't surprised that Tim Moore was tapped by his GOP House colleagues Saturday to be the next speaker of the North Carolina House.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 12:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory signed the last bill on his desk today.
Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2014 @ 4:35 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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New rules are in place at the Legislative Building, just in time for the short session's first Moral Monday protest. The Legislative Services Commission on Thursday adopted new rules seeking to clarify the definition of disruptive behavior. It's in an effort to address an opinion by a Wake County...
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the Catawba Indian Nation awaits a ruling from the U.S. Department of the Interior on acquiring land in Cleveland County to build a $340 million resort/casino, it is battling in South Carolina courts to create a similar gambling property on its border reservation in Rock Hill.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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