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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says a revised Senate Bill 117 would eliminate some costly benefit options and impose forfeiture of retirement benefits for some criminal offenses
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The final day of a sometimes divisive election year legislative session ended with bipartisan back slaps, and emotional farewell speeches injected with folksy humor, good-natured jabs, reminiscence, and heartfelt thanks from those who will not return next year
Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2018 @ 6:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite vigorous arguments from opponents, the N.C. Farm Act of 2018 became law over Gov. Roy Cooper's objections
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 4:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House completed the snub of Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto with a 73-44 override vote, as a single Democrat, outgoing Wake County Rep. Duane Hall, joined a unified Republican caucus
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $23.9 billion state General Fund budget for 2018-19 is a step away from being sent to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $23.9 billion state General Fund budget for 2018-19 is a step away from being sent to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2018 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders’ decision to hold secretive budget deliberations was bad politics, and could further motivate angry Democrats to flood the voting booth this fall, political observers say
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2018 @ 7:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative leaders will boost tax-paid subsidies available in the $23.9 billion 2018-19 budget proposal to induce multibillion-dollar corporations to locate in the state
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, the day after a Senate panel on judicial reform discussed alternatives to judicial elections and possible changes in judicial districts, the leaders of the Senate and House agreed to create a joint legislative panel to address the issues
Published: Sunday, January 21st, 2018 @ 8:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Couples therapy might be dissolving into irreconcilable differences after Thursday's bumpy initial meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Judicial Reform and Redistricting
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2018 @ 8:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Republicans sent strong signals with Thursday's passage of the Electoral Freedom Act of 2017 that they may still scrap judicial elections in exchange for some form of merit selection for judges
Published: Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If the separation-of-powers undertones in the judicial redistricting process weren’t already obvious, state Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, left no doubt Tuesday
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2017 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Jimmy Dixon, a retired Duplin County hog farmer, pleaded with fellow House members to remember the people who put food on the table
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2017 @ 2:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Representative John Szoka (R- Cumberland) and Representative Holly Grange (R- New Hanover) issued the following statement this morning
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 4:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Standing in front of the state's Triad Regional State Crime Lab, local Guilford County legal experts and law enforcement officials refuted Attorney General Roy Cooper's lie.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ 9:45 am
By: Russell Allen
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The 2015-16 session of the North Carolina General Assembly adjourned just before midnight Friday after a 14-hour legislative day that included moving tributes to retiring lawmakers and senior staff members
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2016 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On June 7, 2016, the State of North Carolina held its primary election for the North Carolina Supreme and Superior Court, as well as the United States House of Representatives
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Conservative state Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds prevailed in a primary election he didn't think he'd have to contest, and incumbent Rep. Renee Ellmers of the 2nd Congressional District was trounced by 13th District U.S. Rep. George Holding
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2016 @ 5:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Anticipated low voter turnout, new geographic boundaries, 23 candidates, and a court-induced, drastically compressed campaign schedule present a fascinating political script
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2016 @ 2:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, they did it. Thumbed their collective noses at those of us who voted to give them super-majorities in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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After several major revisions, Medicaid reform that had delayed budget approvals during recent years passed the General Assembly on Tuesday. Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday signed the measure.
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina voters soon could vote for governor and lieutenant governor as a team under a measure approved Tuesday by the House Elections Committee.
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 8:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're seeing a lot of chest-thumping from a lot of folks talking about what a player he or she thinks she is on Jones Street. But we're finding that a surprising number of legislators are having a challenging time making it to the floor TO VOTE.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 11:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla III and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. announced today that Ecolab Inc. will expand its Kay Chemical Company operations in Greensboro and create 45 new jobs over the next three years. The company plans to build a new...
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:27 am
By: Chris Downey
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I wasn't surprised that Tim Moore was tapped by his GOP House colleagues Saturday to be the next speaker of the North Carolina House.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 12:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the Raleigh political circus.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Today, we're celebrating the birth of our nation — which began with resistance to bureaucratic tyranny and protests against excessive taxation.
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 11:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Republican primary for House District 94, which includes all of Alleghany County and most of Wilkes County, features two candidates with political experience and who should be familiar to Wilkes Countians.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I first heard about John Rhodes in 2003 while he was serving in the North Carolina House. He was raising questions about the ethics of Democrat House speaker Jim Black and his Republican co-conspirator co-speaker Richard Morgan.
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 10:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The power of incumbency, gerrymandered election districts, and a growing national distaste for politics in general might be the causes of having voter ballots for the May 6 primary election showing more blanks than the responses to a pop quiz.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax reform legislation working its way through the General Assembly could affect a Taxpayer Bill of Rights measure originally intended to return...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Josh Stein (D-Wake) and the Crayon Corps at McClatchy-Raleigh are really, really peeved at Sen. Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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