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The state budget may be spared economists’ worst fears from the COVID pandemic, according to a new tax revenue forecast.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 10:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Part II: The rest of the list of salaries the taxpayers are paying in the Sheriff's Office
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 @ 10:04 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Commissioners Vote To Keep Budget Deliberations Away From the Public
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 3:29 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Gov. Roy Cooper is again pushing for a multibillion-dollar infrastructure bond, but Republican leaders caution that North Carolina’s still-unsteady economy makes it impossible to tell whether it would be prudent.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 @ 10:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers are returning to Raleigh, and they have a loaded agenda.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 10:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sheriff Ernie Coleman plays games with budgets. Hood exposes some of it in this article
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 5:36 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Minneapolis City Council members who voted last week to strip $8 million from the Minneapolis Police Department budget and redirect those funds to other community programs say they are not “defunding the police,” even though the vote technically defunds the police.
Published: Sunday, December 20th, 2020 @ 2:25 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Angela Merkel had provisions inserted into the new 7 year European Union budget to punish countries that failed to follow EU dictates on immigration and other issues.
Published: Saturday, November 21st, 2020 @ 3:36 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 recession in March, North Carolina policymakers have been watching government revenues and expenditures carefully.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 6:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper is the classic "do as a say not as a do" politician.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 12:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Adam Kredo and Jack Beyrer write for the Washington Free Beacon about a new plan from U.S. House Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina recently passed the “Coronavirus Relief Act 3.0” with Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature, but it is clear from what happened that the governor did not so much approve of the budget and that he begrudgingly signed it.
Published: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Both the General Assembly and Dem. Gov. Roy Cooper have shared their budget priorities this week.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2020 @ 7:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Contained within the FY 2020-21 spending plan released by Gov. Cooper this week is a section outlining how he’d like the state to spend nearly $1 billion of unspent federal Coronavirus Relief Funds.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2020 @ 1:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Republican lawmakers presented a $1 billion COVID-19 package during a Tuesday, Sept. 1, news conference.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2020 @ 12:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Spokesperson Dory MacMillan shared the following statement after the General Assembly passed a budget bill that spends the state's remaining federal COVID-19 response money and includes some provisions with state tax dollars
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 5:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Both the General Assembly and Dem. Gov. Roy Cooper have shared their budget priorities this week.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 5:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This pandemic has affected every corner of our state, including our state budget needs. For many families, it has also shifted their priorities.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020 @ 11:48 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper’s Budget Proposal Fights the COVID-19 Pandemic While Investing in North Carolina’s Future
Published: Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 @ 2:30 am
By: Governor's Office
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For the first time in state history, the governor is introducing a budget proposal in August.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 10:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“Support for a Determined North Carolina” lays out a path to weather the pandemic while boosting the state in the long term
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2020 @ 10:49 am
By: Governor's Office
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $25 billion budget, Wednesday, Aug. 26, to expand Medicaid, increase unemployment benefits, give teachers higher bonuses, and cut funding to Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2020 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I am addressing these comments to the commissioners, the school board and the citizens of Beaufort County.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2020 @ 8:39 am
By: Ray Leary
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The Budget Passed Like a Ghost Ship in the Night
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 @ 9:58 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Beaufort County Commissioners Meet in a Special Called Meeting to Decide the Tax Rate for 2020 /2021On Monday June, 8, 2020, Beaufort County's Commissioners met to finish the 2020 /2021 budget; make no cuts with a hastily constructed economic recession raging, and retained the .635 per 100 dollars evaluation as the ad valorem tax rate for Beaufort County tax payers.
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Gov. Roy Cooper should stop picking winners and losers in business as he reopens North Carolina’s economy, says N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland.
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2020 @ 9:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Thanks to a decade of wise, conservative fiscal policy, North Carolina state government is better positioned financially to weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus shutdown.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 10:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During last nights budget workshop the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners elected to reinstate the Tuesday, May 26, 2020 workshop that had previously been cancelled.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 @ 11:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners will meet in special session for the 2020 budget workshops.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2020 @ 9:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, in a 4 to 3 vote, decided not to hold the budget workshop meeting on May 26, 2020 - Service Expansion - County & Outside Agencies.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2020 @ 4:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In late March, I wrote about how North Carolina state government is likely better financially prepared than most states for the coronavirus shutdown, and certainly more prepared than it was prior to the Great Recession.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 8:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County has a hole in its budget bucket. It is leaking money. But, the water level never goes down.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 @ 7:49 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Colleges and universities around the country are proving to be easy prey to hackers with ransom demands.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 @ 6:02 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The N.C. Department of Transportation overspent its budget by $742 million last year, a new state audit report shows.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Well it’s budget season for cities in North Carolina and everywhere else—and forgive me for stating the obvious–the coronavirus outbreak will seriously impact those budgets.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I hoped, when Gov. Cooper declared a public health emergency March 14, that he was also planning ways to reduce spending to offset some of the lost sales and income tax revenue.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 12:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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