Last week, the North Carolina Department of Commerce released their jobs figures for the 2019 jobs cycle. The results confirm what we already know: The Republican-led reforms of our business climate are working. From December 2018 – December 2019, the number of employed North Carolinians increased by 137,509. The unemployment rate held strong at 3.7%,…
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NC Speaker Tim Moore called for the resignation of Bladen County Board of Elections Chairwoman Louella Thompson after she threatened to arrest citizens for reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at a board meeting earlier this month. This troubling news comes just one month after Chairwoman Thompson was already reprimanded by the State Board of Elections…
The state House of Representatives approved legislation on Tuesday to increase the amount of scholarship funds available to children of wartime veterans attending a higher education institution in North Carolina. Senate Bill 560 Scholarships for Children of Wartime Veterans provides $2.4 million in additional, annually recurring funds for room and tuition expenses to students receiving a…
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore responded Tuesday after state Senate Democrats voted down a pay raise for public school teachers in every county. Speaker Moore said the refusal by General Assembly Democrats to support pay raises for North Carolina’s education communities does a great disservice to the teachers and families working hard to succeed…
Though North Carolina has passed 18 states in national teacher pay rankings since 2014 after five consecutive raises from the Republican-led General Assembly that produced the third-fastest rising educator salaries in the nation, Gov. Cooper announced Friday he would block additional take-home pay increases for public school teachers. Teachers have received a nearly 20% salary…
Gov. Roy Cooper’s radical opposition to commonsense measures to secure our election process continued this week with a veto of legislation to remove foreign citizens from election rolls. Nineteen foreign nationals were charged in 2018 for voting unlawfully in North Carolina. Multiple defendants voted in more than one election. Senate Bill 250 Remove Foreign Citizens from Voting…
Smart reforms and support for individuals and businesses passed by House Republicans the last decade have turned our state’s economy into one of the national leaders. In a state as large as ours, ensuring all communities in North Carolina have the opportunity to thrive and grow is important as people and businesses seek to move…
Wednesday night House Republicans passed House Bill 1023, the Storm Recovery Act of 2019, keeping their promise to provide aid to North Carolinians affected by natural disasters. House Bill 1023 appropriates $280 million for communities still struggling to recover from Hurricanes Matthew, Florence, Dorian and other major storms. This is the sixth disaster recovery bill…
A joint opinion piece by the editorial boards of the News & Observer and Charlotte Observer newspapers called the Governor and House Democratic Leader Darren Jackson’s (D-Wake) interference with an investigation into the Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit deal “disturbing” on Friday, insisting that “they should stop” obstructing the oversight inquiry. The editorial noted that Governor Cooper…
Billions of state dollars for the Department of Transportation (DOT) were approved by the state House of Representatives last week as the legislature continues to fund state government priorities blocked by the Governor’s budget veto through stand-alone appropriations bills. House Bill 100 DOT Budget for 2019-2021 Biennium received broad bipartisan support in the state House and…