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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 which included a number of bipartisan provisions spearheaded by Senator Tillis.
Published: Thursday, December 16th, 2021 @ 1:23 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The Beaufort County Community College Foundation dedicated its nursing simulation laboratory in honor of Glenn and Kathleen Simpson on November 1.
Published: Thursday, November 25th, 2021 @ 5:19 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Today, the President's Commission on White House Fellows announced the appointment of the 2020-2021 class of White House Fellows.
Published: Friday, October 30th, 2020 @ 11:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolinians who buy their own health insurance need to enroll by Dec. 15
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2019 @ 1:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The N.C. Senate passed a $24 billion General Fund spending plan without debate. The House took nearly an hour Thursday, June 27, before following suit and approving the 2019-21 compromise proposal, House Bill 966.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 4:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As a member of the President’s Commission on Combatting Drug Addiction and Opioid Crisis, Governor Cooper today submitted comprehensive recommendations for the Commission’s preliminary report and encouraged a coordinated approach in tackling the opioid crisis
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2017 @ 9:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Dr. Mandy Cohen has a sterling pedigree with Ivy League credentials and a previous job at the highest level of federal health care
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2017 @ 11:38 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: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 2:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Roy Cooper refused to fight Obamacare during his time as attorney general and continues to stand by the devastating health care law today
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 12:05 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The official deadline recently passed for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's exchange policyholders to pay their January health insurance premiums. The deadline was extended at the behest of President Obama due to serious problems with the federal HealthCare.gov website. The days of...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 3:10 pm
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, January 20th, 2014 @ 12:09 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: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 11:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A rhetorical battle over whether young adults should sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act reached the White House last week, when President Obama called a conservative group's efforts to inform so-called millennials about alternatives to the health care law "bizarre."
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2013 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents key Obamacare flaws and offers alternatives for addressing health care needs.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina can help prevent unnecessary increases in health care costs by repealing a 35-year-old law that has failed to address that goal. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report delivers that verdict.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 5:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joe Biden stumbled into Chapel Hill this week to offer his, um, assistance to our hapless junior US senator. Around Haymaker HQ, we were gleefully awaiting more of that patented Biden wisdom and eloquence.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The General Fund cost of operating the State Health Plan is expected to rise about $90 million from fiscal years 2013-14 to 2015-16, but that is a slower growth trend than in past years, and Obamacare will have little effect on it, officials say.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Concern is rising among community health centers that serve nearly a half million patients in North Carolina yearly - most of them uninsured - that Obamacare may drain away their patients and doctors. Meantime, officials say, patients are antsy about how the law will affect them.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've been watching politics in this state for quite some time and I CANNOT recall any prior administration in Raleigh having its appointees subjected to such invasive public scrutiny.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2013 @ 3:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine's Task Force on Early Childhood Obesity Prevention, which has spent the last two years brainstorming new policy ideas to decrease obesity in children, soon may go beyond school cafeterias and private child care facilities and take its programs right...
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From taxes and spending to regulation, education, and transportation, the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly proved historic in producing positive reforms for state government. That's the assessment from top John Locke Foundation staffers reviewing this year's legislative scorecard.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 8:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From taxes and spending to regulation, education, and transportation, the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly proved historic in producing...
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $20.6 billion General Fund budget is on its way to Gov. Pat McCrory's desk. Both chambers of the General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to...
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 2:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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College students all over our state and country went nuts for Kay Hagan and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. They voted for these two libs and worked tirelessly for them in both cycles. How did this devotion get repaid?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Much of the debate about the 2010 federal health care reform law involved the so-called "individual mandate," the notion that the government could force everyone to buy...
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the first pieces of legislation approved this year by the Republican-controlled N.C. General Assembly was a bill barring the state from expanding Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 5:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"In North Carolina, we are making tough decisions and setting clear priorities to fix our economy and make government more efficient and effective. We ask our leaders in Washington D.C. to do the same."
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Is he "the centrist mayor of North Carolina's largest city who campaigned as someone able to work across party lines?
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to sign soon legislation that says no to implementing the federal health care law's most costly provisions -- a state-run insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion--and rightly so.
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gunga Din was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in literature -- and later in movies. He was a poor, hapless, shuffling, kowtowing, water-carrying man-servant to some British soldiers in India.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2013 @ 11:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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First in Freedom documents problems linked to both key pieces of Obamacare
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 3:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gavels in both the House and the Senate are set to fall at noon as the General Assembly begins its 2013 session in earnest.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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