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Holmes’ work as Deputy Industrial Commissioner, Wake County Commission Chair, lawyer brings oversight experience, public service to the post
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 9:32 am
By: Governor's Office
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Forge Nano to launch new battery manufacturing business in Wake County
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 10:48 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On Monday, news broke that state House Rep. Erin Pare, R-Wake, is weighing a run for Congress. Pare is currently the only Republican lawmaker who represents part of Wake County.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 6:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, all seven Democratic Wake County Commissioners expressed their full support for a compromise version of House Bill 99, a bill filed by Rep. Erin Paré, R-Wake.
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 @ 5:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The proposed measure House Bill 99 would make Wake County commissioner races nonpartisan and elect commissioners by the voters in their districts rather than the entire county.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 3:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In 2021, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted to redraw their own district lines and lengthen their terms. They also voted themselves 132% pay increases, more than doubling their salaries.
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 10:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"We can’t wait for the housing market to stabilize itself. We need to be aggressive in our attempts to create and preserve our affordable housing," said Wake County Housing Affordability and Community Revitalization director Lorena McDowell.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 3:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New business services center will support biopharma company
Published: Thursday, February 11th, 2021 @ 1:28 am
By: Governor's Office
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Johnnie Carswell won’t be a tool for Gov. Roy Cooper’s shutdowns.
Published: Friday, October 30th, 2020 @ 2:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For 16 years, former state Rep. Cherie Berry has served as North Carolina’s labor commissioner.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 12:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The protest was larger, the signs more prevalent. A form of detente established between police and demonstrators.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2020 @ 8:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The grassroots group ReopenNC has asked Gov. Roy Cooper and the chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners to clarify COVID-19-related emergency orders, claiming they violate constitutional rights of free assembly and free exercise of religion.
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 @ 5:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Responding to the coronavirus outbreak, at 5 p.m. Friday, March 27, more than a million more North Carolinians face a stay at home order, issued Thursday afternoon by the Wake County Board of Commissioners.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 6:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Microsoft to invest $47.5 million in Morrisville
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The 2020 election season starts unofficially today at noon, with the opening of candidate filing for most races.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2019 @ 10:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Xerox (NYSE: XRX), a Fortune 500 technology company, will build a new Center of Excellence in Cary, creating 600 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 1:16 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Cellectis, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is planning to create up to 200 jobs as it locates its U.S. commercial-scale manufacturing facility in Wake County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 6:08 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Democrats on the Wake County Board of Commissioners have increased support for WCPSS by $90 million since 2015. Since taking the majority on the Wake County Board of Commissioners,Democrats have presided over a 30 percent increase in local support
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 12:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Did anyone else see that it’s not just Republicans who are questioning how Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) spends its money
Published: Friday, June 16th, 2017 @ 8:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If Roy Cooper and North Carolina Democrats regain control of state government in Raleigh, where would they get the money to pay for all the spending promises they are making?
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Things have been looking good for your family's finances over the past couple of years
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2016 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've written before about two N.C. redistricting cases - Harris v. McCrory and Covington v. North Carolina - both from the U.S. District Court for North Carolina's Middle District
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2016 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On June 6, the Wake County Board of Commissioners approved a transit plan. This is not good news
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 11:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commencement season is an often-controversial time. Last year was conspicuous for its wave of politically motivated disinvitations, with students trying, sometimes with success, to get their universities to rescind invitations to commencement speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Condoleezza Rice.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2015 @ 6:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Several bills altering the makeup of local governments are working their way through the current General Assembly session, raising charges by liberal advocates and pundits that the GOP-led legislature is maneuvering to give Republicans a foothold in local governments that now are under Democratic...
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Do you have any interest in reporting the facts?" That's the question I'd like to ask News & Observer editors after reading the recent editorial, "Time for Wake Schools to Build Back."
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 9:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wake County voters swept out all four Republicans on the seven-member Board of County Commissioners in Tuesday's election, but that result is not as stunning as it is a portrait of what may be increasingly predictable in a divided state, a top political observer says.
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 9:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Gary Pendleton believes the tax-cutting and program consolidation strategies he pursued while serving four terms as a Wake County Commissioner are a good template to follow as a state representative in House District 49.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced today that Tony Gurley will be serving as the chief operating officer for the Office of State Budget and Management.
Published: Thursday, March 6th, 2014 @ 11:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After the General Assembly earlier this year failed to enact legislation that would shift control of school building construction and ownership from the school district to the county commission, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 Monday along partisan lines to approve an interlocal agr
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A trio of transportation experts told the Wake County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that more bus service, and less eagerness to move to light rail, appears to be the best next step for Wake County.
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2013 @ 6:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some three dozen people delivered impassioned pleas Monday afternoon to the Wake County Board of Commissioners, urging them to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 8:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans could strengthen their grip on the North Carolina legislature and recapture a majority in the state's congressional delegation in 2012, due in large part to a friendly redistricting plan.
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2012 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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