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,…
The House Appropriations Committee has passed a more than $250-million hurricane relief bill that places a greater emphasis on resilience and disaster mitigation. The committee took up House Bill 1023, the Storm Recovery Act of 2019, on Wednesday, Oct. 30. H.B.
The General Assembly may finally end the months-long budget stalemate and override the governor’s veto of the budget. The reconsideration of the budget veto was put on the Senate calendar for 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28. The move prompts speculation Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, 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: Donor perks: WRAL reports the Office of State…
Time is running out, and Medicaid transformation is imperiled. State representatives began questioning whether Medicaid managed care will fail under its current timeline. The concerns came during a Wednesday, Oct. 23, meeting of the House Health Committee. If a state budget isn’t passed…
I have written about gerrymandering in these pages before, but the recent Superior Court ruling that the state’s legislative districts constitute an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander makes me want to do it again. This is a prime example of judicial overreach and regrettable encroachment of quantitative social…
Lawmakers spent Tuesday, Oct. 8, advancing four mini-budget plans as the budget veto stalemate drags on into another month. Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the $24 billion budget June 28. The N.C. House overrode the veto, but the Senate has yet to try. In lieu…
Lawmakers will continue to consider mini-budgets. For now. A Senate vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto is still possible, but that probably won’t happen until the candidate filing period ends noon Dec. 20, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said in a news conference Tuesday,…
Clarification: After publication, a UNC spokesman contacted Carolina Journal to correct a portion of the Martin Center’s report. The Campus Free Speech Act doesn’t stipulate “institutional neutrality,” but rather states that a “constituent institution may not take action, as an institution, on the public policy controversies of the day in…
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…
