The University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors is taking concerns over North Carolina’s budget impasse straight to the General Assembly — in the form of a resolution asking lawmakers to quit stalling and pass an updated spending plan. The board met Friday, Jan. 17, days after lawmakers failed to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto...
What’s at stake without a budget? Try as they might, the General Assembly has had a hard time garnering the needed votes from the Democratic caucus to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto. Try as he might, the governor has had a hard time persuading the General Assembly to give in to his Medicaid–expansion–or–nothing demands. It’s been a long hot summer on...
Republicans are getting impatient. Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper insists Medicaid expansion be included in the General Fund budget, and the Republican-dominated General Assembly unequivocally refuses. Lawmakers passed a budget bill and sent to it the governor, who vetoed it June 28. Republicans plan to pass a budget anyway. One piece at a time. The hope...
North Carolina taxpayers could get a check from the state by late November. General Assembly leaders in a news conference announced a plan to return to taxpayers money from the $900-million surplus. Income-tax payments and sales tax collections ran higher than expected. Lawmakers were tasked with deciding what to do with the windfall, with ideas...
The state budget impasse won’t affect recent college-bound graduates of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. University of North Carolina system leaders announced Thursday, Aug. 15, they have found a temporary funding source to provide tuition grants to the more than 170 graduates of NCSSM. In 2018, the General Assembly authorized a tuition...
North Carolina’s failure to pass a budget could affect a state-mandated financial literacy course requirement for all public high schools. Gov. Roy Cooper in July signed House Bill 924, which made completing a financial literacy course a requirement for graduation. Ninth-graders starting classes in the 2020-21 school year will have to complete the course to...
John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood discusses the latest developments in the N.C. budget impasse pitting Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper against Republican legislative leaders. Hood offered these comments during the Aug. 2, 2019, edition of “NC SPIN.”
The General Assembly’s nonpartisan Fiscal Research Division said the state collected nearly $900 million more than anticipated for the fiscal year which ended June 30. Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown, R-Onslow, who also chairs that body’s budget committee, used a news release to announce the findings. Brown said personal income-tax payments ran $150 million above...
A bill allowing federal funds to continue flowing to North Carolina hasn’t earned Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature yet, but one political analyst said it would be wise for the governor to let it become law. Weeks have passed since Cooper vetoed the biennial budget bill. Negotiations have stalled on a compromise between the governor and...
Please sign a truce over the budget, University of North Carolina System interim President Dr. Bill Roper asks of the warring branches of state government. In the weeks-old budget battle between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly, much is at stake for public higher education, Roper told Carolina Journal in an...
An appropriations bill approved by the General Assembly ensures federal money can flow into certain programs as the stalemate over the budget continues. N.C. House lawmakers on Wednesday, July 24, voted unanimously to concur with the Senate on House Bill 961, Ensuring Authorization of Federal Funds. The bill heads to Gov. Roy Cooper for his...
