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Outdated? Flash drives and government transparency
The NCGA is upgrading public access to prior committee meetings. However, the step forward is to a flash drive.
Opinion
NC needs the Insko Rule for budget transparency
Leaders at the General Assembly have forgotten two crucial political maxims: sound policy makes good politics, and sound policy comes from good debate.
Opinion
Medicaid expansion supporters should listen carefully to Berger’s analysis
The Senate leader has opened the door to supporting Medicaid expansion. But expansion supporters might not like the compromises they would be required to make.
Opinion
Does Madison Cawthorn have a point about Washington’s morality?
If Cawthorn’s remarks are true, maybe the bigger story is that even somebody with the moral failings that he has is scandalized by the debauched behavior in D.C.
News
National election watchdog issues report calling for cleanup of N.C. voter rolls
A national group that focuses on election integrity issues is calling for North Carolina to clean up its voter rolls before the 2022 election. The group’s latest report points to multiple areas that merit state election officials’ attention. The State Board of Elections offered a point-by-point response to the report’s findings Tuesday afternoon. “North Carolina...
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Locke’s Jordan Roberts explains benefits for N.C. of granting nurses full practice authority
Jordan Roberts, director of government affairs at the John Locke Foundation, discusses “Granting Nurses Full Practice Authority: Benefits for NC.” Roberts offered these remarks March 29, 2022, to the N.C. General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Committee on Access to Healthcare and Medicaid Expansion.
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State Supreme Court rules government retirees had contractual health care right
The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract. The decision reverses the state Court of Appeals,...
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Folwell seeks change that could help lead to seizure of Russian assets
N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell wants Congress to allow state pension funds to seek damages through U.S. courts. His requested change in federal law could lead to seizure of Russian assets and properties. The change could provide possible recoupment of damage done to North Carolina’s pension plans. Folwell said in a press release that he...
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Appeals Court considers lawsuit challenging Cooper team’s 2020 racetrack shutdown
Two years after Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration shut down an Alamance County racetrack during the height of the COVID-19 scare, the track’s owners continue a legal fight against the state. A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in the case. It pits the head of the N.C. Department of Health...
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Senate leader Phil Berger highlights 2022 priorities at CLC
Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, discusses upcoming 2022 legislative priorities during an appearance at the John Locke Foundation’s 2022 Carolina Liberty Conference.
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Locke’s Mitch Kokai discusses prospect of ending N.C. income tax
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the possibility of ending North Carolina’s state income tax. Kokai offered these comments during the Feb. 18. 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
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Legal challenge to governor’s emergency powers one step closer to three-judge panel
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Roy Cooper’s emergency powers has moved closer to a resolution. The senior resident Superior Court judge for Wake County has agreed the case should head to a three-judge panel. That panel will address the lawsuit’s claim that Cooper’s powers under the state Emergency Management Act are unconstitutional. Crystal...
