The legislation filed by Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford stated the "North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion." Warren and Ford did not retur...
"This legislation brings us one step closer to a more clear and concise criminal code here in North Carolina, and the John Locke Foundation is ready to lead the way,"said Schietzelt. Senate Bill 584 is headed to the Senate to concur with the House's version. If it does, the bill woul...
The article reports on the bills introduced in the North Carolina (N.C.) General Assembly for the reconfiguration of local government bodies like the Board of Commissioners in Wake County in N.C.FAUSSETRICHARDEBSCO_AspNew York Times
Democrats knew the carnage was coming all year, but the outrage is still palpable: On Oct. 25, the North Carolina General Assembly’s Republican supermajority swiftly approved an aggressive gerrymander designed to transform the state’s current 7D-7R del
The legislative branch is also called the North Carolina General Assembly, comprising a House of Representatives with 120 members and the Senate with 50 members. The General Assembly makes and passes laws for the state. The number of representatives and senators is determined by population and distr...
In August 1999, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted temporary legislation to quell the flurry of billboard construction along North Carolina highways.'The law imposed a one-year moratorium on permits issued for new construction of outdoor advertising onTimothy J. Fete Jr...
Williamston, North Carolina— On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in front of the shuttered Martin General Hospital recalling the day a year earlier when he snapped pictures as workers covered the facility's sign. "Yes, sir. It was a sad day," Harrison said of the financial...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature unlawfully tried to seize from the governor the power to choose elections board members in the battleground state, trial judges ruled while saying portions of a new election l...
Last week, several Democrats in North Carolina’s General Assembly introduced a bill, House Bill 452, to ban licensed professionals from practicing conversion therapy—a blanket term for the practice of attempting to alter an individual’s sexual, or gender, identity—on minors. ...
On abortion, which the governor said led a film production to move this past week from Arkansas to North Carolina, Cooper said it would remain legal “as long as I am governor.” He has vetoed abortion bills, but added that he will need support in the legislature and votes in the upco...