Governor Roy Cooper visited Edgecombe County to highlight water infrastructure grant funding. The Town of Pinetops will receive $7.9 million to replace its water lines, supporting households across the town. Edgecombe County will receive $1.1 million to install a new water main and services for a water line extension that will provide a viable source of water to households at Eagles Road.
Groundbreaking report concludes nonprofit hospitals paid top executives over $1.75 Billion in the past decade, doubling CEO compensation faster than previously thought.
I’m glad to see that the new Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party is going to put a renewed emphasis on reaching out to rural communities. I was born and raised in Anson County and began my career in politics working in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties in the early 1990s.
Economists in the Office of State Budget and Management and the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division released an updated consensus revenue forecast today anticipating an additional $3.25 billion in state revenues for FY 2022-23, putting total state General Fund revenue collections at $33.76 billion.
Governor Roy Cooper has appointed the Honorable W. Rob Lewis, II to serve as District Court Judge in Judicial District 6, serving Bertie, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton counties. He will fill the vacancy created by the election of the Honorable Brenda Branch to Superior Court Judge.
Newly elected U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina’s 11th District attended his first State of the Union address last week and joined his fellow Republicans in calling out Joe Biden’s fiscal irresponsibility.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced, in Wilson, that USDA is providing $28 million to improve access to jobs, health care and infrastructure for people in historically underserved communities in North Carolina across the Rural Partners Network (RPN).
Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) released the following statement about the consensus revenue forecast showing the state has a one-time $3.25 billion surplus:
The judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding legal dispute calls for state government to spend an additional $785 million on education-related items. But he has jettisoned a controversial provision from a previous court ruling that raised constitutional concerns.
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor, has just endorsed U.S. Rep. Ted Budd over former Gov. Pat McCrory in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate. In a new ad promoting Budd’s candidacy, Robinson speaks directly to the camera. “Pat’s a nice guy — but he’s no conservative,” Robinson says, alleging among other charges that “Pat put liberals in charge of state textbooks.”
On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-11th District, was cited for possession of a dangerous weapon after having a loaded handgun at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Police say that Cawthorn cooperated with authorities after an agent found the weapon in a bag and Cawthorn said it was his.
A slate of Republicans, including a group of young, first-time candidates, are hoping to turn the tide of Charlotte City Council with a red wave of their own this July. A Republican has not been elected to an at-large council seat in Charlotte since 2009.
