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Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Nearly 2 million Americans have turned down jobs because the unemployment benefits are too lucrative
Published: Friday, July 30th, 2021 @ 7:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law today: House Bill 238 & 10 others
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 @ 11:43 pm
By: Governor's Office
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It’s now a time in North Carolina to dismiss policy based on politics and embrace a move toward legislation focusing on common sense
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 8:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed more legislation than all other North Carolina governors combined.
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 6:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A poll found that 61% of North Carolina voters supported ending the federal unemployment supplement.
Published: Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 @ 10:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Burke regarding North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the Human Life Non-Discrimination Act
Published: Monday, July 12th, 2021 @ 3:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It’s his second veto in a week and third overall this year.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 3:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The bill would have allowed concealed carry during non-school hours in houses of worship that also operate schools.
Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2021 @ 1:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Cooper’s Budget Proposal Seeks ‘Opportunity in Crisis,’ Pushes for More Spending, Medicaid ExpansionGov. Roy Cooper introduced a $55.9 billion budget proposal on Wednesday, March 24, that includes many of the goals he’s had since taking office.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 8:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Education has voted unanimously to switch social-distancing requirements under a “Plan A” return to public school classrooms to 3 feet rather than the previous six feet.
Published: Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 @ 1:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s latest two-year budget plan would spend far too much money, setting North Carolina’s state government on an unsustainable future path.
Published: Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Something exciting has happened in North Carolina and we’re not talking about March Madness.
Published: Sunday, March 21st, 2021 @ 4:46 am
By: Tom Campbell
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For more than a decade, Republicans have controlled operations of North Carolina’s General Assembly.
Published: Friday, March 19th, 2021 @ 9:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly has two firearm bills on the calendar for March 9. H.B. 48 and H.B. 49 should pass the House on March 10.
Published: Saturday, March 13th, 2021 @ 10:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Syrian presidency released a statement on Monday confirming that President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, Asma, have both tested positive for the coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 8:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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When it comes to an inherent right, nothing is regulated quite like the Second Amendment.
Published: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 8:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A majority of North Carolina public school students failed to pass end-of-course tests in fall 2020, according to new data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s 11th-hour veto of a school reopening bill Friday isn’t sitting well with nearly half of North Carolina likely voters, a Civitas Flash Poll shows.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Senate on Monday failed to override Governor Cooper’s veto of SB37, legislation that would have required districts to provide in-person learning.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. General Assembly on Monday, March 1, tried but failed — by one vote, 29-20 — to override the governor’s veto of a bill to reopen schools.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican leaders in the N.C. General Assembly say they will consider overriding the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 37, the school reopening bill, as soon as Monday, March 1.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 8:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed bipartisan legislation to reopen N.C. public schools statewide.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 1:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the following bill: Senate Bill 37
Published: Monday, March 1st, 2021 @ 10:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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If one isn’t paying attention to Second Amendment issues, they might not know North Carolina has lost a lot of ground compared to other states over the past few decades.
Published: Thursday, February 11th, 2021 @ 1:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Sen. Kathy Harrington, R-Gaston, doesn’t seem impressed at becoming the first female majority leader of the N.C. Senate.
Published: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 @ 9:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s lawmakers are moving to advance school choice.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2021 @ 4:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In the forthcoming print edition of Carolina Journal, I make the case that the General Assembly should expand Second Amendment protections in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 12:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The coronavirus pandemic has created a window of opportunity for school choice, says a panel of experts at a John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 @ 10:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Gov. Roy Cooper won a second term. But he had no coattails.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 1:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When the last of the three waves of the 1918 Spanish Flu subsided in 1920, America began an incomparable period of economic growth, good times and opportunity called “The Roaring Twenties.”
Published: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 9:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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