Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within one year of enactment declare per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as hazardous substances.
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 @ 7:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with the Mountain Area Health Education Center to increase the number of doctors who graduate from North Carolina residency programs with the training necessary to provide medication-assisted treatment for patients
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 @ 5:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When are special interest subsidies not just special interest subsidies?
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that North Carolina is strengthening its fight against the opioid epidemic by expanding the number of pharmacies participating in the Controlled Substance Reporting System
Published: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 @ 11:00 am
By: Governor's Office
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Twenty-two local health departments in North Carolina will receive a share of $1.8 million to implement high-impact, community-level strategies to address the opioid crisis based on the NC Opioid Action Plan
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 10:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, I have signed into law H.R. 6, the "Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act," also known as the "SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act" (the "Act").
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2018 @ 3:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina will receive $27 million over the next year to fight the state's opioid epidemic by getting people off opioids and preventing others from misusing them, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 11:31 am
By: Governor's Office
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On 7-24-2018, The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Kendall Jermaine Warren, 35 years of age, of 215 Springs Road in Washington and Naikira Speller, 26 years of age, of 215 Spring Road in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As China tangles with the President Trump over trade, North Carolina growers fear a collapse in demand, and say that even Trump's proposed $12 billion boost in farm subsidies won't stanch the billions they would bleed in a prolonged trade war
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 11:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 08-03-2018, The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Kenneth Earl Spain, 44 years of age, of 208 Spain Drive in Washington
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is a puzzling term regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, is the ultimate goal of their protectionist trade policies. The phrase is "reciprocal trade."
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Democrats have never opposed lowering taxes on big business. You may hear a lot of rhetoric to the contrary during the election cycle. Here's why, to borrow a phrase, you should take that rhetoric seriously but not literally
Published: Monday, June 4th, 2018 @ 4:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed new state budget would not expand the state’s overall film grant program this year
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
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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Today, Gov. Roy Cooper named 21 new appointees to various state boards and commissions, including the North Carolina Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services and the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 9:33 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper signed into law S.B. 582, an act (i) to make technical, clarifying, and other modifications to the current operations appropriations act of 2017 and to related legislation and (ii) to make agency technical corrections
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2017 @ 11:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The 2017-18 General Assembly may soon try to keep alive its unblemished record of overriding Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes
Published: Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 @ 9:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Another session of the N.C. General Assembly - this one especially short - should convene at noon Oct. 4.
Published: Friday, October 6th, 2017 @ 1:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new state grant program seeks to make fresh produce available in underserved communities, but research suggests the government's tactics won't make people healthier
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government is bigger and more expensive than it needs to be, thanks to an economic concept called the "special interest effect."
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 @ 5:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Patients deserve better access to both life-saving and life-preserving health-care treatments
Published: Saturday, June 17th, 2017 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the selection of two hospitals for grant awards to increase the number and availability of inpatient psychiatric and substance use treatment beds in rural hospital beds across the state
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2017 @ 5:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Film director Rob Reiner and other Hollywood notables have railed against North Carolina, threatened not to work in the state again, and raised the possibility of economic boycotts because of House Bill 2, the so-called bathroom bill
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking applicants to develop recommendations of Governor Pat McCrory's Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use, including employing case management and other targeted strategies to help those with mental health and substance use is
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 8:46 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory are partnering with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse to recognize Family Day in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:24 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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