Thousands of educators, advocates and allies converged on Raleigh Friday, demanding higher pay for teachers, more state support per student, more childcare funding, and more funding for special education.
The North Carolina legislature has agreed to shore up the state’s Medicaid program with a $319 million infusion, but disagreements between Republicans in the House and Senate on the rest of the state budget remain unresolved.
The next state senator representing Caswell, Orange, and Person counties will be Jonah Garson, a top North Carolina Democratic Party official, following Sen. Graig Meyer’s departure to lead the North Carolina Justice Center.
The decision was the second Thursday from the Middle District of North Carolina backing the General Assembly’s controversial election security measures.
A North Carolina House committee examining property tax reform is considering a sweeping proposal to close a tax loophole for low- and moderate-income housing that’s costing local governments tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
Retaliatory tariffs could have harsh economic consequences for North Carolina’s agricultural sector, according to a new report from the John Locke Foundation.
NC A&T State University students packed the North Carolina State Board of Elections meeting in Raleigh to support an early voting site on their campus for the upcoming primaries.
There is, of course, nothing new about the spectacle of everyday people being forced to endure great suffering because of the whims, foibles, fears and egos of powerful rulers and politicians. From the forced labor that helped construct the pyramids to the countless wars waged to boost a leader’s domestic political standing, millions of people throughout history have suffered greatly because of a powerful man’s – and it’s almost always been a man’s – desire for power.
Members of the North Carolina Council of State kicked off the new year with a direct message for the General Assembly: Finalize the budget and properly fund state agencies.
The state election board announced plans to collect missing identifiers from more than 100,000 voters, but said all will remain on the registration rolls.
The state House gave final approval to its budget proposal Thursday, with one of its lead authors predicting a hard road to passage of a final spending plan.
North Carolina House Republicans are moving a bill that would curb Gov. Josh Stein’s ability to appoint new district attorneys, calling a last-minute committee hearing Tuesday to advance the legislation.
