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Energy bill would repeal 70% carbon reduction goal, saving $15 billion
The bill will remove the 2030 interim clean energy targets,reduce consumer electricity cost by a total of $15 billion.
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Legislators ‘distraught’ with their own HOAs, seek reforms to protect homeowners
Fueled by legislators’ own frustrations with HOAs, the bills aim to curb abusive practices, enhance transparency, and protect homeowners’ rights across the state’s 14,000 HOAs.
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US House passes budget resolution
An initial version of the budget resolution has passed in the House.
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State lawmakers push to allow gambling loss deductions, in step with federal tax code
Under current North Carolina law, individuals who engage in legal sports betting or other forms of gambling are taxed on their gross winnings without the ability to deduct losses. This differs from federal tax policy, which permits deductions for gambling losses up to the amount of winnings.
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Cohen tells Americans to mask up as congressional committee looks for answers
The U.S. Center for Disease Control Director Dr. Mandy Cohen is urging Americans to put masks back on for the holidays. In a Fireside Chat with the American Medical Association on Tuesday, Cohen said flu season started just before Thanksgiving and rapidly accelerated, particularly in the southern United States. “We know this time of year...
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Hudson introduces bill to stop proposed Biden energy restrictions
Last week, Republican Congressional lawmakers led by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC, introduced a bill to stop new regulations for energy distribution transformers proposed by the Biden Administration. Entitled the Protecting America’s Distribution Transformer Supply Chain Act, the legislation repeals the U.S. Department of Energy’s ability to impose new regulations on distribution transformers for five years....
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Tillis among those asking for total Congressional ban on TikTok
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-TX, led a group of Republican senators and representatives Monday to call on all members of Congress to not only voluntarily stop using the social media platform TikTok but also ban them from using it entirely.
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NC members of Congress could hold key roles in new GOP-majority U.S. House
The latest projection from elections-analysis site FiveThirtyEight is that Republicans have an 85% chance of winning a majority in the U.S. House. It’s even fairly likely that Republicans will claim far more than the 218 seats needed for a majority. And if or when current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hands the gavel over...
Opinion
Trump endorses Bo Hines in key swing congressional district, but will it bring victory?
Former President Trump endorsed 26-year-old Bo Hines Tuesday March 14 for the newly created 13th congressional district. Hines played one year of football at N.C. State before graduating from Yale, and lives far outside the district with a scant political resume. In a statement from former President Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump called Hines a...
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Daylight-saving clock shifting continues in NC despite legislative effort
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include information on the U.S. Senate’s vote on Tuesday March 14, 2022 to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. There aren’t many things that bring people from all sides together politically these days. But ending the practice of putting our clocks forward in the spring then backward in...
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Biden, lawmakers agree to cut off Russian oil, but not how to replace it
Even though gas prices now surpass $5 a gallon in many areas of the country, $4.13 in North Carolina, leaders from both sides of the aisle agree it’s time to cut off Russian oil. But President Joe Biden and Democrats seem more inclined to replace the nation’s Russian oil supply with oil from Venezuela and...
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Long odds for sports betting legalization in N.C. this year
While a bill that would legalize sports betting across North Carolina passed a House committee last week, odds are heavily against it passing the full General Assembly before the session ends. The House Commerce Committee passed Senate Bill 688 by a 12-4 vote, but the sports betting legislation would have to make it through three...
