RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general urged Congress to act now to help stop organized retail crime. Organized retail crime occurs when groups of people work together to steal large amounts of merchandise from stores and then re-sell those products for cash.
Local governments in western North Carolina have begun to receive interest-free loans as they recover from Helene, State Treasurer Brad Briner said Monday.
Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham), along with Sens. Warren Daniel (R-Burke) and Buck Newton (R-Wilson) filed the “North Carolina Border Protection Act,” to ensure state law enforcement officials are cooperating with federal immigration laws and that residents are protected from harmful Sanctuary City policies.
Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) has joined a letter to the new Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Brooke Rollins laying out a roadmap to enhance the agency’s response to the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
RALEIGH — The asymmetry is striking. In Washington, many Republicans take a maximalist position on the executive power of the president of the United States. All departments and agencies — even if created by Congress with the intent of limiting presidential authority over them — are as a constitutional matter subordinate to the president, who can fire their officers and overrule their decisions at will.
By Senator Danny Britt. The fall and winter hunting seasons are an important part of my life, as they are for so many others. For duck hunting, cold and wet are two ideal conditions, and we’ve already had plenty of both here in eastern North Carolina as January and duck hunting season wound down to a close. Hunting is so much a part of our way of life that it’s enshrined in our state constitution.
RALEIGH, N.C. — On Friday, Senators Benton Sawrey (R – Johnston), Michael Lazzara (R – Onslow), and Todd Johnson (R – Union, Cabarrus) proudly introduced Senate Bill 128: Heroes’ Homestead Act, a vital step in expanding property tax relief for North Carolina’s disabled veterans.
Washington, D.C. — Last night, the Disaster Loan Accountability and Reform Act was approved by the Senate Small Business Committee with bipartisan support and sent to the Senate floor for consideration.
Raleigh, N.C. – Justice Allison Riggs shared the following statement after the Supreme Court of North Carolina denied the State Board of Elections petition for discretionary review, leaving Griffin’s challenges of more than 65,000 valid North Carolinian voters in the North Carolina Court of Appeals: