Around 55,000 students and their families remain in limbo, stuck on a waitlist for the Opportunity Scholarship program, as uncertainty continues to swirl over whether North Carolina lawmakers will fully fund the program for a new school year that kicks off in a matter of weeks.
House Republicans passed the bill late Tuesday afternoon, securing approval among both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly.
North Carolina legislative leaders say they anticipate a quick vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of Senate Bill 20, a measure that would have restricted abortions in North Carolina past the first trimester.
“Today is indeed a great day for North Carolina,” N.C. Speaker of the House Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said Wednesday about yesterday’s General Election. In a joint press conference at the Legislative Building in Raleigh, he spoke with Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham. “If you look around the nation, North Carolina was indeed a bright spot in so many ways.”
What are the chances of the GOP winning a supermajority in North Carolina's General Assembly in this November's General Election? While the probability of that happening looked pretty good earlier in the year, many experts say the chances for that happening have now diminished.
Left-wing political activist the Rev. William Barber will not get his day at the N.C. Supreme Court. Justices at the state's highest court have turned down Barber's appeal of a 2019 conviction connected to a protest at the General Assembly.
Lawyers representing the state are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to reject an appeal from left-wing political activist the Rev. William Barber. In paperwork filed Friday, the N.C. Department of Justice argues against the Supreme Court taking up Barber’s appeal of a conviction for second-degree trespass. The conviction stemmed from a 2017 protest Barber led...
The N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a second-degree trespass conviction against left-wing activist the Rev. William Barber. The conviction stemmed from a 2017 protest Barber led at the state Legislative Building against Republican leaders of the General Assembly. “Defendant led a group of approximately [50] people through the General Assembly office complex, protesting the...
Six hundred days and counting. Gov. Roy Cooper has ruled North Carolina with a proverbial iron fist since unilaterally enacting a state of emergency March 10, 2020. The order came without following statutory mandates to consult with the North Carolina Council of State, as Rep. John Bell, R-Wayne, wrote recently for Carolina Journal. But Cooper,...
N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, adjourned a quick session Tuesday, Oct. 26, but not before promising a busy week ahead. House Bill 259, the Election Integrity Act, was on the agenda for discussion and possible vote, but the bill’s sponsors — Reps. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort; Kyle Hall, R-Rockingham; and George Cleveland, R-Onslow — asked...
The N.C. General Assembly is in session, but it’s unclear how long it may take lawmakers to deal with economic fallout caused by COVID-19 . Lawmakers converged on the legislative complex to begin work as a few hundred people gathered in downtown Raleigh to protest shutdown orders from Gov. Roy Cooper. The House gaveled in...
