It was only a matter of when, not if. The state Senate announced shortly before 8 p.m. on Monday that it voted 33-15 along party lines to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 68 to create the North Carolina Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement. The veto override is now...
The House on Wednesday afternoon swatted down Gov. Roy Cooper’s first veto in a 74-44 override vote that would reinstate House Bill 100. The measure restores a longstanding practice of identifying District and Superior court judicial candidates on election ballots by political party registration. The Senate scheduled a vote on a veto override Thursday. Cooper...
Rick Henderson on ObamaCare's rate spike; John Skvarla on balancing the environment & economic growth; GOP legislators debate a bill that could make it easier to hire illegal immigrants; Andy Taylor on N.C.'s Senate race; and Terry Stoops on homeschooling
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RALEIGH — Holiday cheer gave way to Scrooge-like griping during two contentious sessions Wednesday and early Thursday morning in which Republicans overrode Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of a bill that eliminates an automatic dues check-off option for members of the state teacher’s association.
