Susan Myrick and Francis De Luca Governor Roy Cooper’s decision to wait to announce his cabinet appointments until after his swearing in is highly unusual as reported in this ... Keep Reading
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Cooper States Desire to Defy State Law in His First Week of Office
Just a few days after his midnight swearing-in, new Governor Roy Cooper tells a public audience today that he wants to bypass state law and ask the feds to expand North Carolina's ... Keep Reading
Cooper Becomes Governor Under Cover of Darkness
Roy Cooper will literally take the oath of office to become North Carolina’s next governor in the dark. He has scheduled his swearing-in for just after midnight on January 1, 2017, ... Keep Reading
Dems Reject HB 2 Repeal, Special Session Ends With No Bills Passed
NC Capitol Connection provides an overview of yesterday's contentious special session called to repeal HB 2. Most of the day was spent in caucus discussing the measure to repeal ... Keep Reading
Sorry Cooper, There is No Such Thing as a “Fair Share” of Taxes
Recent news accounts have brought up the question of incoming Governor Roy Cooper's plans for state taxes, zeroing in on his parroting of the "fair share" slogan. Gubernatorial ... Keep Reading
Why Won’t Cooper Aide Stand for Troops?
On today's "What Matters in North Carolina" show, host Mark Shiver interviews state Rep. John Szoka (R-Cumberland) about comments made by one of Governor-elect Roy Cooper’s key ... Keep Reading
Appointment by Cooper Raises Troubling Questions
Governor-elect Roy Cooper must not be familiar with the favorite mantra of North Carolina’s political Left – “Forward Together, Not One Step Back!” His first appointments appear to ... Keep Reading
Counting Provisional Ballots in North Carolina
The Durham County Board of Elections (as well as many of the other local boards of elections in North Carolina) worked through the Veterans Day holiday today. All 100 local boards ... Keep Reading
Civitas Calls for Action on Groups’ Campaign Spending
Is Roy Cooper taking money that should go to North Carolina’s schoolchildren and instead diverting it to liberal environmental groups? It turns out that some of these very same ... Keep Reading
New Civitas Poll Shows Trump and Clinton in Dead Heat in NC
McCrory up Two Points over Cooper in NC Governor’s Race RALEIGH – The latest Civitas poll of North Carolina likely voters finds the two major presidential candidates in a dead ... Keep Reading
