An 18-member legislative committee will start work Tuesday, Nov. 5, on a new N.C. congressional map for the 2020 election. A court called for the new map one week ago. The interim Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Legislative Office Building in…
Harry Smith, former chairman of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors, has officially resigned from the board. In September, after months of publicly tense relationships with some members of the body, Smith announced he would step down as board chairman…
The 2019 session of the N.C. General Assembly began Jan. 9, both in the House and the Senate. The session ended on Halloween, which was Wednesday, Oct. 31. Lawmakers left without a budget, failing to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, which came in June. To date, Cooper has…
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review: Comments on Kay Hagan’s death: Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., died Monday,…
Legislators looking into how Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration handled an environmental permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have asked Cooper and three of his top staffers to testify in Raleigh at a legislative committee meeting Friday, Nov. 8. The request came a few days after Cooper’s…
The 2019 legislative session won’t end until 2020. The N.C. House and Senate are adjourning Thursday, Oct. 31, and will return Nov. 13 to consider redistricting matters and possibly tie up a few loose ends, per a joint resolution. After that,…
N.C. Transportation Secretary James Trogdon is a bad manager and should be replaced, says State Treasurer Dale Folwell. The transportation department, which is in a financial bind after overspending by about $2 billion this year, deserves a leader with better oversight,…
Rep. Jeffrey Elmore, R-Wilkes, said one of his teaching colleagues inadvertently took a pay cut. Elmore is the House Education K-12 Committee co-chairman and the only public school teacher in the General Assembly. He said Thursday, Oct. 31, his friend increased the contributions to her retirement…
The House passed a franchise tax cut and expanded film grants despite an attempt to shoot down the expansion of film grants. Rep. Larry Pittman, R-Cabarrus, tried to strip the film tax credits from Senate Bill 578. In the spirit of Halloween, he likened them…
A corporate tax cut expected to pass at the end of the General Assembly’s session surprisingly wound up on the cutting room floor. The House Finance Committee killed a franchise tax reduction bill Wednesday, Oct. 30, even though Republicans, who hold…
