This week Apple Inc. announced North Carolina will be the new home to a billion-dollar campus working in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. The move will create 3,000 jobs that pay an average of $187,000 annually. It is a high-impact announcement for the area around the state capital,…
The N.C. House is not planning to move the Save Women’s Sports Act (H358) this session, according to North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland. In an interview with the Associated Press, Moore said that votes are not needed at this point. The bill would apply to college,…
Republicans last overrode a Cooper veto in August of 2018, on a bill dealing with judicial elections.
Civility and trust among North Carolina politicians were already being sorely tested, and now the controversy surrounding an override of the governor's budget veto has greatly damaged both.
House Speaker Tim Moore, Senate leader Phil Berger, and their colleagues are determined not to repeat North Carolina's sad history of spending too much during boom years and then having to raise regressive sales taxes during recessionary years.
The General Assembly will take up legislation to resolve the GenX water pollution case and judicial redistricting and reform when it returns to special session Wednesday. But what else is on the agenda, or even how often and how long lawmakers will meet, remains a…
Gov. Roy Cooper has given a high political profile to the discharge of the GenX chemical compound into the Cape Fear River. A joint legislative committee will meet Wednesday to begin investigating his administration’s handling of the problem. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Senate Leader…
State and local expenditures make up a combined 9.17 percent of GDP in North Carolina — our lowest rate of government spending in many decades.
Just as most North Carolinians never volunteered to become grunts in some national war over LGBT rights, most sports leagues and corporate interests never signed up for a perpetual twilight struggle.
RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper sought common ground during his first State of the State address to the Republican-controlled General Assembly on Monday night. While the governor’s 37-and-a-half-minute speech asked lawmakers for cooperation with his plans to improve…
