NC budget writers propose law enforcement raises, more prosecutors, school safety funding, and child welfare reforms in public safety plan.
Senate budget appropriations would spend almost $750 million from the Stabilization and Inflation Reserve Fund.
Appropriations in the House budget proposal would replenish the savings reserve to pre-Helene levels.
"I'm hopeful, and frankly, optimistic, that we'll be able to get a budget done this summer... And it's possible still that we'll get it done in June. I know that's my goal at the end of the day."
State Treasurer Brad Briner and Controller Nels Roseland are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling favoring a local school system involved in a money dispute with state government. A split state Appeals Court panel ruled in April that the Richmond County Board of Education could continue to pursue a $272,000 court judgment against the state.
Leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly traveled to Washington, DC, on Tuesday to meet with Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd amid ongoing calls for Congress to provide immediate assistance to North Carolinians affected by Hurricane Helene’s devastation.
A bill filed Tuesday in the N.C. House would identify legislators who request special provisions in the state budget. It’s an idea the John Locke Foundation’s president has touted as the “Insko rule.”
The General Assembly convened Jan. 13 and has met for well over 100 days. More than 1,700 bills have been filed; bills on election reform, appropriating federal COVID money, energy modernization, medical marijuana, sports betting, constitutional amendments, education reforms, health care advancements, regulatory reforms, unemployment benefits, confirmations, and appointments — to name a few. ...
Budget writers working on the state’s 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation that makes the goal of adding...
State Rep. William Brisson has represented North Carolina House District 22 since he ran unopposed in 2008, but attorney Ben Snyder, who moved to North Carolina from West Virginia in 2010, says he is challenging the incumbent in the March 15 Democratic primary to give voters a “greater choice.” If elected, Snyder said, he would...
Like the creature of Greek mythology, state legislative committees keep sprouting new heads. The big picture suggests that Democrats will retain their policymaking dominance in Raleigh.
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