Increasing funding in the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program is just one indicator of a growing movement for school choice. The Republican-controlled General Assembly plans to increase funding for the Opportunity Scholarship Grant Fund Reserve by $10 million every year for the next decade. The state will…
RALEIGH — It was anything but quiet Tuesday morning at the North Carolina General Assembly. The House Finance Committee had planned to approve that body’s tax plan during an early morning meeting. A news conference was scheduled at 11 a.m. to unveil the House finance package. The…
ROBBINS — Julie Morgan saw the environmental hazard in her Moore County hometown created by yesteryear’s textile mill technology, and she saw the industrial materials that supported it. She hopes the contaminated remnants of the crumbled Robbins Silk Mill lead to preventive studies on what advocates hail as an industry…
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper gave General Assembly Republicans a Memorial Day weekend present: yet another legal challenge to legislation the governor claims unconstitutionally limits his executive powers. Cooper’s office announced late Friday he filed a lawsuit seeking preliminary and permanent injunctions…
RALEIGH — The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate’s plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday. House leaders took a hard look at the $22.9 billion General Fund budget for 2017-2018,…
One lawmaker thinks it’s high time that North Carolina sack a ban on plastic bags. A proposed committee substitute from Sen. Bill Cook, R-Beaufort, aims, as part of House Bill 56, to repeal the longstanding ban. The provision, enacted in 2009, prohibits…
North Carolina is violating state laws and the constitutional rights of thousands of citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities, charges a lawsuit filed in Wake County Superior Court. The state’s programs for disabled people pay excessively for services that deliver inferior care.
Ron Heiniger isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. He has spent years as a crop and soil scientist helping hard-pressed farmers to get maximum yield and quality from their crops. The N.C. State Cooperative Extension Service professor says it’s his calling in life. These days Heiniger, who works at…
North Carolina professional basketball fans can rejoice: The 68th NBA All-Star Championship will be held Feb. 17, 2019, at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte. Charlotte originally was set to host the 2017 All-Star Championship, but the NBA rescinded the award in response to House Bill 2, otherwise known as…
The N.C. Department of Justice is considering how to respond to a Superior Court judge’s ruling that the state unconstitutionally charged health insurance premiums to state retirees. Already wracked by $42 billion in unfunded liabilities, the State Health Plan might have to absorb billions of dollars…
