With still no agreement between the state House and Senate on a state budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year that began on July 1, the House and Senate have come to an agreement to ... Keep Reading
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State Budget Unlikely to be Finalized Before Start of Fiscal Year
Several significant differences between the House budget plan and the Senate budget proposal are unlikely to be worked out before the July 1 beginning of the new fiscal year. ... Keep Reading
NC Senate Unveils Budget Plans
In a press conference this afternoon, Senate leaders released some of the major aspects of their budget proposal. Senate appropriations committees will be finalizing their spending ... Keep Reading
Bad Bill of the Week: 10 Reasons the House Budget is a Bad Bill
Late last week the North Carolina House passed its FY 2015-17 budget proposal. The spending plan would appropriate $22.16 billion in the coming year, an increase of 6.3 percent ... Keep Reading
An Open Letter From Civitas Board Chair to NC House Repub Caucus
The following email was sent from Civitas Institute Board Chair Bob Luddy to House Republican Caucus members expressing his opinion of the "Liberal House spending plan": Subject: ... Keep Reading
Details From NC House Budget Plan Begin to Trickle Out
Some preliminary details of the House budget plan were revealed yesterday in various appropriation committees. WRAL has a brief rundown. Some highlights include: In education, ... Keep Reading
New Baseline Budgeting Brings Transparency to NC Budget Process
Gov. McCrory is expected to release his budget proposal today, and in so doing will mark the beginning of a new, more honest and transparent budgeting process. As reported by the ... Keep Reading
One NC Legislator’s $2 Billion Snow Day
So a lonely, bored state legislator takes to twitter the other day when the legislature was snowed out, and lists items he'd like to force state taxpayers to pay for. And for some ... Keep Reading
N&O Desperate to Manufacture “Revenue Crisis”
The N&O is at it again, trying desperately to drive the narrative that somehow the tax cuts enacted in 2013 are wreaking havoc on the state budget - which in the eyes of the ... Keep Reading
NC to Join 32 Other States That Don’t Fund Driver’s Ed
Wake County school leaders (and likely school leaders across the state) are up in arms about the state's elimination of funding for driver's ed programs. Wake County school ... Keep Reading
