RALEIGH — With many parents and staff increasingly anxious about student safety in light of recent school shootings, LobbyGuard Solutions, based out of Raleigh, is providing schools with new methods of securing their buildings. Kevin […]
CHARLOTTE — North Carolina’s previous governor, Republican Pat McCrory of Charlotte, said Gov. Roy Cooper and the mayors of the major cities of the state should be ashamed for ignoring how some sheriffs are endangering […]
RALEIGH — After more than a month of waiting for the other side to flinch in budget negotiations, Minority Leader Darren Jackson (D-Wake) delivered a letter to Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) and Speaker Tim […]
RALEIGH — Senate Bill 86, Small Business Health Care Act, passed 82-32 in the House on Aug. 7 with backing from major state business organizations seeking more affordable ways for their members to provide coverage […]
RALEIGH — On Friday, Aug. 2, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order that prohibited the state’s Dept. of Health and Human Services from using “state and federal funds that are allocated to […]
PEMBROKE — On July 25, Gov. Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 218, a bipartisan bill giving the Lumbee Tribe greater autonomy to act as an official governing body in North Carolina. The bill passed almost […]
RALEIGH — Senate Bill 290, ABC Regulatory Reform Bill, was sent to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk July 19 after bipartisan support in the General Assembly. With a vote of 86-28 in the House and 31-10 […]
RALEIGH — In the wake of a February 2019 worldwide United Methodist General Conference that voted to strengthen the denomination’s stance supporting a traditional definition of marriage, North Carolina’s two conferences voted to reject this […]
RALEIGH — A lawsuit filed in late June by environmentalist groups is seeking to have recent laws limiting nuisance lawsuits against farming operations declared unconstitutional. Rep. Jimmy Dixon (R-Duplin), senior chair of the House Agriculture […]
RALEIGH —Republican budget writers at the North Carolina General Assembly on Monday held a press conference introducing their $24 billion compromise budget after debating differences between Senate and House priorities. A compromise with Gov. Roy […]
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