GOP Clashes With Perdue Over Regulatory Reform Agenda
RALEIGH — Senate Republicans are moving two bills aimed at reforming the state's regulatory environment. They said these measures would boost the state's economy.
RALEIGH — Senate Republicans are moving two bills aimed at reforming the state's regulatory environment. They said these measures would boost the state's economy.
RALEIGH — In filings submitted last week, Attorney General Roy Cooper asked the nation’s highest court to review a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year that upended North Carolina’s case against the multistate utility.
RALEIGH — Almost half of the nation's largest postsecondary schools — including N.C. State University in Raleigh and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — automatically enroll students in the abortion-providing coverage.
RALEIGH — For years, Republicans and limited government advocates have criticized Golden LEAF as a political slush fund, but Democrats at the Senate Appropriations/Base Budget Committee hearing defended it as a job-creator.
For committed political junkies, and even ordinary Americans, the fact that The New York Times is a left-wing newspaper comes as no surprise. From the editorial page to news copy to cultural reviews, the Gray Lady operates from a liberal worldview — and a blatant one at that. William McGowan has done newspaper aficionados a service by giving us a birds-eye view of the Times’ journalistic malpractice, mainly over the last two decades. The many tales of woe come neatly packaged in a 276-page tome titled Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of The New York Times Means for America.
RALEIGH — The same day a federal judge in Florida struck down ObamaCare as unconstitutional, North Carolina Democrats assembled at the Legislative Building in Raleigh to assail a GOP-led effort to exempt state residents from the law’s most controversial aspect — the individual mandate.
You don’t have to sit in ivy-covered buildings to get the benefits of a college education.
RALEIGH — The first Republican House speaker in more than a decade conducted a wide-ranging interview with Carolina Journal reporters this week.
RALEIGH — Republican leaders have pledged a unified front on budgeting and redistricting. Their goal is to wrap up the session, which convenes today at noon, by the close of the state’s fiscal year June 30. At the same time, they’ve alluded to potential battles with Democrats on several fiscal and social issues.
RALEIGH — Presumptive Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger expects the House and Senate to be more in sync; says to not anticipate any quick revenue fix from video poker.
RALEIGH — The abortion-ban amendment was included in the initial U.S. House version, but the Senate later stripped it from the legislation and passed a final compromise that didn’t include the abortion limits.
RALEIGH — Media reports indicated that opponents of the school board’s conservative majority were gunning for John Tedesco’s job and questioning the nonprofit’s diversity because of his employment there.