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As Congress continued to conduct its final pieces of business before the holiday break, lawmakers warned that a total government shutdown could ensue if an agreement to send an additional package of tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine is not made by Friday.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 10:32 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A group representing N.C. bar owners wants the state Appeals Court to revive a lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 6:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers for the University of North Carolina System argue that a recent N.C. Appeals Court decision exposes the university to "massive liability." The university urges the N.C. Supreme Court to consider an appeal.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 11:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Nearly 60,000 North Carolinians never re-entered the labor force after the Covid shutdowns.
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Details about actor Bill Murray allegedly engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a female movie production staffer earlier this year have been revealed in a new report.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 4:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Red flares and clouds of thick black smoke billowed in the skies Thursday night as around 400 members of the so-called anarchist group Antifa protested roughly one mile from where Dr. Jordan Peterson spoke at an event in Berlin, Germany.
Published: Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 @ 8:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) attempted to demonstrate her support of Michigan’s small businesses Tuesday, promising her commitment to the local economy.
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2022 @ 11:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Bar owners suing the governor in connection with his COVID-19 shutdown are relying on a state Appeals Court ruling in a separate case involving a shuttered racetrack.
Published: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 1:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the nick of time, Congress has passed a bipartisan $12 billion funding bill, narrowly avoiding a Ukrainian government shutdown.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap bill Thursday, seeking to avoid a partial government shutdown while also sending billions of dollars more to Ukraine.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2022 @ 6:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A lawsuit challenging Gov. Roy Cooper's COVID-related shutdown of N.C. bars continues to make its way through the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 9:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While newly released data show four-year graduation rates for North Carolina public schools are comparable to pre-pandemic rates, there are deeper concerns about what knowledge and skills students have when they graduate and also about the persistence of racial achievement gaps
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. health and human services secretary is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a ruling against him. It involves the 2020 shutdown of Ace Speedway in Alamance County.
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 @ 3:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Department of Transportation declared a regional emergency Saturday affecting four Midwest states after a fire earlier this week caused an “unanticipated shutdown” of a BP oil refinery in Indiana.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 8:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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Owners of an Alamance County speedway can move forward with a lawsuit against the state's top health official. The suit stems from a COVID-19 shutdown order.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 5:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ShutDownDC announced on Friday that organizers would pay anyone who could tip protesters off to the locations of the conservative Supreme Court justices — and the price increased if they were still at the named location 30 minutes later.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 8:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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The ruling class thought they could shut down large swaths of the economy during Covid, and paper over any negative effects by flooding the economy with newly-printed money. But all they did was delay the inevitable economic carnage.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two years after Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration shut down an Alamance County racetrack during the height of the COVID-19 scare, the track’s owners continue a legal fight against the state.
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis told members of the Cuban exile community in Miami on Tuesday that he would like Florida companies to help Cuban dissidents by beaming in internet services to groups coordinating protests on the ground in Havana.
Published: Sunday, August 8th, 2021 @ 4:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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No surprise here to those with common sense
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 8:50 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Heavy drinking among women aged 30 to 80 spiked by 41% during pandemic shutdowns.
Published: Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 @ 3:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Cooper participated in calls with US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Department of Energy Officials on the impacts of the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline.
Published: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 @ 5:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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After seemingly months of speculation, the Carolina Panthers finally made their choice in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 @ 5:05 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Nearly a year ago, Governor Cooper shut down North Carolina’s public schools via executive order and refused to reopen with an executive order.
Published: Friday, March 12th, 2021 @ 11:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The San Francisco Chronicle detailed a report in late January displaying how minority children and those from low-income families have been academically harmed by the pandemic more than wealthier, white students.
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2021 @ 9:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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Among the North Carolina businesses hardest hit by Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 shutdowns are bars, taverns, and distillers.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As he stood on his porch, watching the flames consume his studio, Brant Barnes wasn’t thinking about the fire.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2021 @ 3:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Bar owners from six counties across North Carolina are going to court to challenge the governor’s executive orders shutting down their businesses.
Published: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 6:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Owners of a popular Greenville bar claim Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 shutdown orders violate their constitutional rights.
Published: Friday, January 1st, 2021 @ 9:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Stephen Moore writes at Real Clear Politics about an inconvenient fact for left-of-center supporters of COVID-19 lockdowns.
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A California restaurant owner is suing California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom over an order that forced her to close down amidst the coronavirus pandemic after she shared a viral video of a television production with tables set up next to it right by her establishment.
Published: Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 @ 12:43 pm
By: LifeZette
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North Carolina has an opportunity. Meaning North Carolina as a whole, but also as a sum of its complex and diverse parts.
Published: Saturday, November 28th, 2020 @ 5:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After previously saying he would be willing to impose a national shutdown along with a mask mandate, Joe Biden now says he would not implement a national lockdown.
Published: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 @ 8:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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In the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, New Vision Therapy is still fighting the opioid epidemic.
Published: Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s shutdown orders have produced difficult economic times for North Carolina families and businesses.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 @ 4:26 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Lt. Governor Forest's comments on Gov. Cooper trying to shutdown North Carolina without telling the public
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2020 @ 2:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Why can’t we get it right? This response to COVID-19, I mean.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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John Podhoretz of Commentary magazine questions the close link between COVID-19 government lockdowns and an important political milestone.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 3:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With school districts shutdown everywhere because of the covid-19 pandemic, "When will our schools rep-open again?" Is a question that on everyone’s minds all across this country.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2020 @ 6:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Because the state hasn't passed an actual budget bill since FY 2018-19, however, the recommendations are essentially spending adjustments because there is no actual budget to adjust.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Thursday, Governor Cooper and NC DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D. updated the public that North Carolina’s COVID-19 trends remain stable.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 2:53 am
By: Governor's Office
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