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(RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a federal rule that regulates ghost guns—untraceable weapons often made at home from kits—like other firearms. In an amicus brief filed in Garland v. VanDerStok, Attorney General Stein and a coalition of 24 attorneys general urged the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that overturned the ghost gun rule, arguing that the rule is a common-sense measure to prevent gun violence and help law enforcement solve crimes.
Unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) increased in 95 of North Carolina’s counties in May 2024, decreased in four, and remained unchanged in one. Scotland County had the highest unemployment rate at 6.0 percent while Buncombe and Currituck Counties each had the lowest at 2.8 percent.
RALEIGH: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and the NC Department of Health and Human Services announced new actions leveraging the state’s Medicaid program that will encourage hospitals to relieve a potential $4 billion in existing medical debt for approximately two million low and middle-income North Carolinians and ease the burden of medical debt in the future.
Inflation has left many North Carolinian families to make difficult short-term spending decisions, but what about long-term financial planning, like retirement?
RALEIGH — As we once again celebrate our country’s birthday, might I suggest we spare a moment to consider our state’s role in the dramatic story of American independence?
Governor Roy Cooper issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Moyle v. United States:
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate overrode three of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes. The General Assembly has successfully overridden all 22 of Gov. Cooper's vetoes this biennium.
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate voted to put one constitutional amendment on 2024 general election ballots, and passed two additional constitutional amendments for consideration.
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s private sector lost an eye-popping 414,000 jobs in the most-recent quarter tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Are we on the brink of economic cataclysm? Should you buy gold and head for the hills?
In a disappointing turn of events, the Senate Republican supermajority has once again demonstrated its disregard for the urgent issues facing North Carolinians.
What does it mean to be free? Many seemingly intractable disputes about specific issues — ranging from welfare spending and school choice to abortion and alcohol policy — originate from the fact that people don’t answer this question in the same way. It’s hard to have a useful political conversation without a common political language.
Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina House of Representatives has given bipartisan approval to House Bill 263, the "2024 Appropriations Act." The House budget includes investments in teacher and state employee raises, childcare funding, and it fully funds Opportunity Scholarships.
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee considered legislation to place three constitutional amendments on the 2024 general election ballots.
This week House Republican Leadership has rushed through a budget process that we have known from the start was dead-on-arrival in the Senate. Still, they have demonstrated what their main priority is: A massive expansion of taxpayer-funded vouchers for the rich
