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After an extended period of inactivity that’s left the state without a new budget for the first quarter of the new fiscal year, the state legislature kicked things into high gear last week passing a $30 billion budget and a series of lengthy, momentous, and controversial proposals. The sudden deluge of contentious ideas — most […]

The post Senator Natasha Marcus weighs in on the state budget, Medicaid expansion and casino gambling appeared first on NC Newsline.

One of the very few silver linings to accompany the COVID-19 pandemic was a significant decline in American child poverty. Thanks to various relief initiatives and, most notably, the expansion of the federal child tax credit that the Biden administration championed, poverty numbers fell significantly for a time as the federal government provided what was, […]

The post North Carolina Budget & Tax Center director Alexandra Sirota on the latest poverty data appeared first on NC Newsline.

For several years now, North Carolina’s Republican-dominated state legislature has been pursuing a determined effort to overhaul the state’s university system. Whether it’s the makeup of the boards and chancellors that oversee the system and its various campuses, or the actual academic programs the campuses house and the professors they hire and fire, conservative politicians […]

The post Reporter Joe Killian on the effort by Republican lawmakers to remake our public universities appeared first on NC Newsline.

The post Gov. Cooper does the right thing on the state budget bill appeared first on NC Newsline.

The post Effort to keep lawmakers’ public records secret is an outrage appeared first on NC Newsline.

The post Secrecy, scheming, power grabs bespeak a broken legislative leadership appeared first on NC Newsline.

The post Researchers identify simple and effective tactic to reduce gun violence appeared first on NC Newsline.

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The post National report highlights the cruelty of Treasurer Dale Folwell and the state health plan appeared first on NC Newsline.

When state lawmakers returned to Raleigh last week, the word on the street was that, at last, two-and-a-half months into the new state fiscal year, a budget agreement between House and Senate Republicans had finally been achieved. As it turned out, however, this rumor proved inaccurate as a dispute over whether to introduce casino gambling […]

The post Rep. Marcia Morey on the budget saga, casino gambling, gun violence, and election law changes appeared first on NC Newsline.