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June 20, 2025

Brent Jackson

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Senate budget targets NCInnovation funds

April 30, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly’s Senate budget includes a provision reshaping the $500 million in endowment funds previously given to a nonprofit in 2023 for accelerating university research being brought to the marketplace. In […]

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NC hurricane recovery director grilled for hours by legislative subcommittee

January 31, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A series of heated exchanges took place between lawmakers and the director of the state’s hurricane recovery agency during a subcommittee hearing on Thursday. The Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations’ Subcommittee on […]

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NC hurricane agency chief out after grilling by state lawmakers

November 28, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency’s Director Laura Hogshead is no longer with the agency, according to an announcement by Department of Public Safety Communications Director Jody Donaldson on Nov. 20. The […]

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Cooper includes $175M for state disaster agency in latest Helene funding request

October 23, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — According to a press release from Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden), the state agency responsible for helping natural disaster victims needs more money in order to operate. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s Office of Recovery […]

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Legislators, others honored for contributions to NC outdoors

May 16, 2024 Abby Cavenaugh

WALLACE — There’s no doubt that kids these days are spending a lot more time staring at screens on their phones, laptops and televisions than any other generation in history. In 2015, state legislators recognized […]

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NC Senate budget cuts taxes, boosts infrastructure spending amid revenue surplus

June 22, 2021 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Senate, who introduces their spending plan first this biennium, presented their budget on June 21, maintaining the conservative approach General Assembly Republicans have been following since they took over the […]

State Representative Linda Johnson
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Linda Johnson, top NC House budget writer, dies from cancer

February 19, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — State Rep. Linda Johnson (R-Cabarrus), a senior House Appropriations Committee chair, died Tuesday from brain tumors and related strokes, according to multiple sources. Johnson, 74, was a Cabarrus County native and served 10 […]

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Cooper vetoes the Farm Act and six other bills

June 26, 2018 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — Just hours before Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the Farm Act of 2018, Raleigh’s Bicentennial Mall outside his office was filled with farm families calling for him to sign it. “We are here to […]

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