The recently passed NC state budget contains a provision that would not allow local governments and municipalities to establish minimum wage and other employment-related requirements for private employers.
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 12:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the state will pay the largest one-time supplemental bonus in history for benefit recipients of the Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System, Consolidated Judicial Retirement System, Legislative Retirement System and the Local and Governmental Employees’ Retirement System.
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2022 @ 3:10 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC), North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM) and North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition (NCMMC) together call on Congress to provide significant direct and flexible financial assistance to local governments of all sizes in NC
Published: Saturday, May 16th, 2020 @ 12:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well it’s budget season for cities in North Carolina and everywhere else—and forgive me for stating the obvious–the coronavirus outbreak will seriously impact those budgets.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced North Carolina boards and commissions appointments.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 7:44 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Cooper has appointed the following individual to the Alamance Community College Board of Trustees
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 11:51 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Republicans in the General Assembly have contended nonpartisan elections mask important candidate information from the voting public
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2017 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory updated elected officials from many of the North Carolina League of Municipalities' 540 member cities, towns and villages today on the ongoing efforts to recover from Hurricane Matthew, including the latest on the governor's Hurricane Matthew Recovery Task Force he established
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 9:45 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Concerns about the costs of a fiscal transparency measure in the Senate budget raised by local governments and some McCrory administration officials are misplaced, says Sen. Andrew Brock, R-Davie, who introduced the plan.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Republicans are pushing bills to reduce the state corporate income tax rate from 5 percent this year to 3 percent in 2017, and restructure the manner in which corporate taxes are calculated. The intent behind the legislation is to make the state more business-friendly and better able to...
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 10:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spurred on by Gov. Pat McCrory, who has assembled a coalition to restore discontinued historic preservation tax credits, state Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Klutz on Thursday directed her statewide whistle-stop tour to Eden, home of Senate leader Phil Berger.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement upon signing House Bill 1050.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 6:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With a few notable exceptions, government agencies in North Carolina do not expect a major hit from Obamacare mandates in the coming year. But that could change in 2015, when large employer requirements kick in for organizations such as the UNC system, where as many as 10,000 temporary employees...
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Sen. Jeff Tarte, R-Mecklenburg, believes Special Assessment District revenue bonds may be the fairest method of taxation for economic development infrastructure projects even if the financing instrument attracted only one successful applicant in the five years the bonds have been an option...
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill passed Wednesday by the House Elections Committee would require local government special elections to be conducted during regularly scheduled general elections and primary elections in even-numbered years.
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2013 @ 8:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Further announcements regarding additional appointments in the McCrory Administration will continue to be made in the weeks ahead leading up to the January 5th swearing-in ceremony.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 6:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lumberton officials are using an unprecedented taxation defense in an Internet sweepstakes lawsuit before the state Supreme Court that features constitutional separation of powers issues and arcane legal protections dating from the Great Depression.
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 @ 11:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Red-shirted property owners flooded the General Assembly yesterday, as they did about a year ago, to put pressure on lawmakers voting on historic annexation reform.
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2012 @ 3:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In what some are calling "punishment" to the cities that sued over annexation reform legislation passed last year, state lawmakers have rewritten the law so that it is even more unfavorable to cities wishing to engage in involuntary annexation.
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2012 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's courts have ruled it is legal for local governments to use taxpayer resources to lobby the General Assembly on legislation, and that's exactly what nearly two dozen cities and counties are registered to do as the May 16 legislative short session nears.
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2012 @ 6:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Republican state lawmaker pledged to protect property owners from being annexed involuntarily into the five cities that sued the state over Annexation Reform legislation that passed last year.
Published: Monday, April 16th, 2012 @ 7:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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