North Carolina would jump from No. 10 to No. 5 in the Tax Foundation’s state business tax climate rankings, if recently approved reforms took effect immediately.
Published: Sunday, December 19th, 2021 @ 5:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Property and Casualty Insurance is something that we are required to purchase, by either a mortgage company or by a municipality. But what do we know about this? How do we know we are receiving honest and truthful information about a claim?
Published: Friday, November 26th, 2021 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Woodard
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State auditors found that a former finance officer in the troubled municipality of East Laurinburg used town taxpayer money on personal expenses, which resulted in overdrafts of the town’s bank account.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lenoir County was recently joined with Craven and Beaufort counties during the Senate Redistricting process. Previously, Lenoir and Wayne have been grouped together.
Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 @ 3:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina may consider a sports betting bill in 2021.
Published: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, the N.C. Senate Education Committee presented a bill that would effectively end the High School Athletic Association’s role in supervising high school athletics, a role the organization has held since 1913.
Published: Friday, July 30th, 2021 @ 10:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC Weekly Update — June 25
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 3:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Auditor Beth Wood’s office found that Shelton Jeffries, the former superintendent of Nash County Public Schools, violated his contract and district procedures by ringing up $45,690 in questionable expenses during his three-plus years at the helm.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The federal court is recognizing that “there is reason to question whether the transactions violate federal law barring the sale of fetal organs.”
Published: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 @ 10:26 am
By: Judicial Watch
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State lawmakers have begun a sweeping investigation of the N.C. High School Athletic Association, a move that could lead to changes on how high school sports are governed.
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 @ 7:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Board of Elections announced Civitalk a group founded by Cal Cunningham donor, Tony Sease, mailed 11,000 pre-filled voter registration forms in direct violation of state law.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 8:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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$15 million available from the new Job Retention Grant Program (JRG)
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2020 @ 10:15 am
By: Governor's Office
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The 2020 election season started with clear examples of the folly of our unquestioned faith in technology for voting.
Published: Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 @ 2:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Sally Pipes writes for the Washington Examiner about widespread misunderstanding of costs linked to the policy proposal dubbed “Medicare for All.”
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. General Assembly passed two bills to deal with fallout from COVID-19.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 @ 12:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Touchscreen voting systems suffer from numerous defects and the State Board of Elections (SBE) should not have approved of their use in North Carolina Elections.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 3:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The University of North Carolina System will ask the General Assembly for roughly $45 million in one-time money to deal with fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic — all while cutting other budget requests to include only “must do” items.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 @ 6:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If a Florida parent wants to see the personnel file for their child’s public school teacher, the school would hand it over.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 10:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Thursday, February 6, 2020, Congressmen Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and Collin Peterson (MN-07) introduced H.R. 5774, the Veterans Heroin Overdose Prevention Examination (HOPE) Act.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 3:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The massive 2020 Democratic field is altogether outraising President Donald Trump, but Trump is outraising every single candidate individually.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 8:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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While the health care debate has usually focused on questions of insurance coverage and finance, the composition and delivery of medical services have been changing significantly.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 @ 10:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During the golden age of tapping, in the 1930s and early 1940s, this quintessential American art form played a sizable role in pop culture.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you have forgotten who Horace Greeley was, don't feel badly. He probably does not know who you are either.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 3:23 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In the United States, veterans own nearly 2.5 million small businesses.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 2:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Let me be clear, before I get too far into this piece, that I’m a big fan of good health. I try to eat right, I work out or run about every day, and, even at my advanced age, consider myself physically fit.
Published: Monday, October 14th, 2019 @ 8:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and department leaders wrongly spent $22,000 in travel expenses during the N.C. State Fair, a new audit report says.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2019 @ 4:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At almost the same moment our state was boasting of a $900 million cash surplus, one important sector of state government was encountering serious shortfalls.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 12:45 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Record visitor spending in 2018 was reflected with visitor spending increases in all 100 counties, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2019 @ 9:21 am
By: Governor's Office
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Ten years ago, the passage of Obamacare vastly increased the federal government’s role in our health–care system.
Published: Sunday, June 16th, 2019 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina tourism generated record visitor spending in 2018 with a total of $25.3 billion.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 12:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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