May I introduce you to some of the first-degree murderers who had their death sentences indefinitely postponed by our state Supreme Court on June 5.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020 @ 2:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's still-young Opportunity Scholarship Program would get a major boost if a provision in the proposed Senate budget becomes law
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2016 @ 3:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC Speaker of the House, Paul "Skip" Stam, released an official statement offering to assist PayPal in finding a new state to do business in, since it has chosen to boycott NC
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2016 @ 1:26 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Politicians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released the following statement in response to Representative Skip Stam's announced retirement from the General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2015 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A rightward shift. That's how two sources - who both had votes in today's leadership vote - described the final results to me.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Then-speaker Thom Tillis, Skip Stam, the Black Caucus, and The John Locke Foundation were all quite passionate about passing reparations for people sterilized by the state of North Carolina from the 20s to the 70s.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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GOP leaders from Thom Tillis to Skip Stam to Pat McCrory have bent over backwards to tell us what a great idea privately-managed toll roads are.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Liberal activists may fume, and left-wing editorialists may grind their teeth, but legislative leaders are going to defend energetically their 2013 opportunity scholarship bill against lawsuits by the teacher union and other special interests.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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He is unable to walk like kids his age, but my niece's son gave his family the best gift ever when he pulled himself up and balanced against a fence while playing in the Arizona sunshine.
Published: Thursday, December 26th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government doling out taxpayer dollars to politically-connected businesses is bad enough, but this week's Bad Bill of the Week takes that concept to even lower depths.
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2013 @ 11:19 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Earlier this week Representatives Rob Bryan (R-Mecklenburg), Brian Brown (R-Pitt) and Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) introduced HB 944, the Opportunity Scholarship Act.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some disturbing reports are coming over the transom about the former NC state House majority leader recently banished to purgatory (a/k/a the post of speaker pro tem).
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 8:51 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Five months after state lawmakers passed a law freeing food truck owners from a regulation that required them to rent space in a restaurant or commissary, no food truck operator has taken advantage of it.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I button-holed a Republican legislator recently to try and get some of the inside skinny on the happenings on Jones Street.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A Cary government watchdog organization believes the town is violating state law by placing a one-sided video on the town's website hailing the benefits of tax increases to pay $80 million for three bond referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2012 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new political climate in the state capital could result in a number of school choice reforms enacted into law next year, a panel of legislators said Tuesday during a luncheon on school choice.
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2012 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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