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I don’t think North Carolina should expand Medicaid under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2019 @ 6:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina lawmakers have just nine days to draw new voter district maps. They’re off to a rough start.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s been 49 days since Governor Roy Cooper shared a balanced budget compromise offer to Republican legislators.
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ 7:32 am
By: Governor's Office
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N.C. lawmakers, one could argue, have had unprecedented success this legislative session in reforming the state’s archaic laws governing spirituous liquor.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 315, the North Carolina Farm Bill of 2019, passed the Senate June 17 by a 31-14 vote. S.B. 315 officially authorizes and regulates statewide hemp farming, among other things.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With a headline unemployment rate of 4 percent and a healthy 2.8 percent jump in inflation-adjusted median household income last year, North Carolinians are better off economically than they have been in many years.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan group of state representatives filed House Bill 751, resurrecting a 25 percent tax credit program.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 5:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Texas did it in 1985. California did it in 1987. Pennsylvania did it in 1996. New Hampshire did it in 2016. Florida did it in 2019.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 12:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers this session have filed what amounts to a jumble of bills designed to ease restrictive Prohibition-era rules enacted in the first half of the 20th century.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 4:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill filed Tuesday, April 2, in the N.C. House would dramatically revamp how the state governs liquor sales and distribution, including a provision allowing for Sunday sales.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 7:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If Medicaid expansion forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for a service that was either previously paid for some other way or not consumed in the first place, there is no reduction in the cost of care.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Adults who don’t receive health insurance through their employer struggle to find affordable plans when they look to buy coverage on their own from an insurance company
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers still wringing their hands over reforming the state's archaic and draconian liquor-control system should look to Kentucky as an example of what a legislature can do to boost tourism, nurture entrepreneurship, and promote innovation.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 4:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Expanding Medicaid is a temporary, albeit insufficient, fix for the problems of high costs in the health care system.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 @ 12:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission is scheduled to meet 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, to consider and adopt rules for spirits sold and consumed in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 5:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Head distiller Chris Jude steps through a door at the High Wire Distilling Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. Jude, who's from Boone, enters the tasting room and bar, making the short trip from the place spirits are made to the place spirits are served
Published: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 @ 12:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Starting in 2011, North Carolina lawmakers have implemented transformational changes resulting in a strong and growing economy
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some North Carolina lawmakers are looking to simplify the state's complex criminal code
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recent legislative adjustments to North Carolina's 2018-19 state General Fund budget produced two main political controversies that we'll hear more about as we move through the campaign season to the November midterms
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2018 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, nurse practitioners (NP) can't treat patients unless they establish a collaborative practice agreement with a supervising doctor - a written contract that outlines patient management, prescribing authorities, and how the NP and physician will communicate with each other
Published: Sunday, May 13th, 2018 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State and federal leaders are rightly taking steps to rescue victims of human trafficking, but unless lawmakers increase support for survivors' care and rehabilitation, those efforts will be thwarted, a group of North Carolina experts say
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 5:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Faculty leaders at the University of North Carolina's flagship campus recently signed a resolution supporting First Amendment rights
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2018 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Courts have been dealing with gerrymandering - the redrawing of legislative district lines to further a particular political interest - for more than 50 years
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ongoing effort to loosen rules and regulations on North Carolina distillers, brewers and winemakers isn't about alcohol
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 5:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A friend of mine, who, along with a group of his friends, owns a distillery on the N.C. coast, once told me a story about a customer who asked him for a drink
Published: Saturday, February 10th, 2018 @ 10:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year Senators Angela Bryant (D-Halifax), Valerie Foushee (D-Chatham) and Terry Van Duyn (D-Buncombe) introduced legislation (SB 174) to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour as a way “to advance economic security in North Carolina.”
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 7:24 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina lawmakers and the business community have been watching Amazon's search for a second headquarters with bated breath
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 3:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Court intervention in congressional redistricting has some lawmakers wondering whether judges are gaveling their way into legislative territory
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2018 @ 2:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is a national front-runner in protecting campus speech
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 2:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much of the reporting on the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been cluttered with moans, groans, and general derision
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2018 @ 3:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The misguided and ultimately debilitating and tragic ban of alcohol that we called Prohibition was, at its core, about control
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today Anita Earls, the Democrat "Nullifier in Chief, announced her candidacy for the North Carolina Supreme Court. In a blatant anti-democratic effort, last year Earls tried to get the US Supreme Court to cancel the 2016 election results
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 @ 6:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than 10 years after the Commission on the Future of Higher Education assessed the plight of American universities, experts say the problems they identified remain entrenched, and new challenges strains educators even further
Published: Friday, September 29th, 2017 @ 11:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Residents of municipalities and counties throughout North Carolina do indeed enjoy starting their Sundays with a cocktail
Published: Friday, August 25th, 2017 @ 4:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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