The 23-member committee is tasked with reviewing factors that contribute to rising local property taxes and identifying ways to reduce the burden on homeowners.
State Rep. Cecil Brockman, D-Guilford, resigned from office Friday after the state House's Republican speaker formed a committee to consider his expulsion.
Rep. Julia Howard, R-Davie, joked about the lobbyist who has prevented progress on the bill for years.
“With the advent of YouTube and other forms of social media, criminals are actually teaching people how to use the system to trespass (squat),” Rep. Steve Tyson, R-Craven, told the Carolina Journal.
NC House Oversight Committee co-chairs Reps. Harry Warren, R-Rowan, and Jake Johnson, R-Polk, are among the primary sponsors of a bill to clawback half a billion dollars in state taxpayer funds from NCInnovation (NCI), a private nonprofit founded to help commercialize more public university research in the state.
As the North Carolina General Assembly prepares to gavel in the long legislative session, new House Speaker Destin Hall makes appointments to key committees responsible for shepherding policy through the state's lawmaking process.
A bill filed Wednesday in the N.C. House would raise North Carolina’s mandatory judicial retirement age from 72 to 76. If approved, House Bill 71 could help state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby serve his full eight-year term. Without action, Newby would be forced to retire no later than May 30, 2027. That would...
On Tuesday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced committee assignments. House Republicans have 71 out of 120 seats, and would need 72 out of 120 for a gubernatorial veto override. This will likely be a focus when issues that are especially partisan - abortion, 2nd Amendment laws, voter ID, tax policy - come before members.
Rep. Julia Howard, R-Davie, has been removed from her powerful role as senior chair of the state House’s tax-writing Finance Committee. Howard has been reassigned to the budget-writing Appropriations Committee, where she’ll serve as a member at large. That news comes in a statement to Carolina Journal from House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, Speaker Pro...
North Carolina Democrats lost four seats in the state House on Election Day. Republicans will open the 2021 legislative session with a 69-51 majority. It was an upset. Legislative redistricting, brought on by lawsuits in 2019, should’ve made it easier for Democrats to gain ground. Instead, the party lost seats during an election year where...
Ashley Arthur, a Raleigh resident and former software company employee, was laid off in January — before the coronavirus pandemic buried the N.C. Division of Employment Security in new claims from laid-off workers. Charlotte residents Tim and Dee Worley, both former professional athletes who now work in nonprofits and as independent contractors, were hit by...
