Democrat Mo Green is handily besting Republican Michele Morrow in total fundraising to date in the state’s race for superintendent of public instruction, according to recent campaign disclosures.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 6:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the North Carolina Utilities Commission works on a Carbon Plan that would dramatically shape the state’s energy future, the state grew by 133,088 people in 2022 alone, the third fastest-growing state in the nation.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient zero-emissions resources “are available and can replace at scale what gas contributes to the system”
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The general counsel to Gov. Roy Cooper is returning to private practice.
Published: Monday, August 9th, 2021 @ 1:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Government Transparency Act of 2021 would require that personnel actions of government employees, like public school teachers or county health officials, be described and maintained in public record
Published: Sunday, June 20th, 2021 @ 11:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it.
Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina remains vulnerable to fuel shortages because it’s too reliant on a pair of pipelines for gas and energy, industry leaders and experts told lawmakers.
Published: Thursday, May 27th, 2021 @ 2:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"It’s scary and a lot of people are panicking.”
Published: Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 @ 11:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With President Biden in the White House and Democrats in control of both houses of Congress, conservatives are bracing for a flurry of policy changes on issues they care about.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 1:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. attorney general can’t keep and distribute money from a settlement over hog waste that leaked and overflowed from lagoons.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Dem. Gov. Roy Cooper has seemingly taken every opportunity to promote renewable energy in North Carolina
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 12:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, July 20th, 2020 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The end of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline shuts the door on one example of Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive overreach.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2020 @ 4:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 @ 12:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper made the following statement after Atlantic Coast Pipeline owners announced the project was cancelled
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 @ 8:10 am
By: Governor's Office
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Education activists and Democratic lawmakers want to spend more on education, even as the state faces a massive budget shortfall and is entering a potentially disastrous hurricane season.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 6:43 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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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to a public records request, a document Gov. Roy Cooper said was an email appears to be something else.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Duke Energy lobbyist said Gov. Roy Cooper’s senior policy adviser, Ken Eudy, wasn’t truthful when making statements to a legislative committee investigating the Cooper administration’s role in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and an associated $57.8 million discretionary fund.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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How would you describe the year 2019? I’ve pondered the just-right descriptive adjective and finally settled on the seldom used but highly appropriate word quarrelsome.
Published: Wednesday, December 25th, 2019 @ 7:54 am
By: Tom Campbell
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After Democrat Roy Cooper narrowly defeated Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016, the GOP-led General Assembly moved quickly to dispossess the incoming governor of some of the office’s powers.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2019 @ 8:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A decision Tuesday, Dec. 3, by the N.C. Court of Appeals rebuking Gov. Roy Cooper could have ramifications beyond the initial scope of the case, and it could influence a dispute over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 4:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The second-ranking Republican in the N.C. Senate will not run for re-election next year.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Investigators hired by the General Assembly concluded that Gov. Roy Cooper used the power of his office to pressure developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline into creating a $57.8-million discretionary fund as a condition of getting an environmental permit for the pipeline.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2019 @ 9:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On November 20, investigators hired by the North Carolina General Assembly testified Gov. Roy Cooper had “improperly used the authority and influence of his office” to pressure Duke Energy for concessions as it sought permits for a natural-gas pipeline.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2019 @ 4:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor disputes Duke executives' accounts of meetings over $57.8-million discretionary fund
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After two years of baseless political accusations and wasted taxpayer money, Republican conspiracy theories about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline continue to fall flat in the face of undeniable facts.
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2019 @ 3:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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Did Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration require operators of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to provide Cooper a $57.8-milion “mitigation fund” before the state would approve the portion of the pipeline heading through North Carolina?
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 @ 4:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Hurricane victims, struggling rural hospitals, and the state Department of Transportation will get an infusion of cash.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 @ 4:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Governor Dan Forest today issues the following statement in regard to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 1:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A legislative investigation into the permit process for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a sham, say representatives of Gov. Roy Cooper.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 10:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat others, including those whom they hold political or professional power over.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 8:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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