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A bill to limit the governor's power to shut down the economy during an emergency has cleared the North Carolina Senate.

Pro-tip for Republican elected officials posting to Facebook, etc.: Spell "Reagan" correctly.#ncpol They're lucky to spell their own names correctly... Trump may be gone, but the issues that originally divided us are still dividing us. https://t.co/MnPaDbQGaq#NCPOL Good stuff. Biden has been incredibly productive in his first 3 months, but there are still some critical issues that need to be addressed. Excited that the NC House voted for the Equity in Opportunity Act to help increase educational opportunities for low-income families and students with disabilities. This bill will ensure our mo...

A report touting 76,000 names on charter school waiting lists across North Carolina could give the wrong impression about demand for charters. It’s true that interest and enrollment have grown in charters, which are public schools but free of many of the rules and regulations traditional public schools must follow. But 76,000 names on waitlists aren’t the same as 76,000 students. That’s a point even the Office of Charter Schools, the agency that regulates the state’s 200 charters, was compelled to make in its 2020 Annual Report to the General Assembly. In fact, OCS officials, includi...

Governors’ powers to declare long-lasting statewide emergencies without agreement from other elected officials would end under a bill moving through the state House. The House Judiciary I committee approved a bill that would require governors to get approval from a majority of Council of State members in order for statewide emergency orders to last more than seven days. Republicans have chafed at Gov. Roy Cooper’s pandemic safety orders in the last year, frequently saying they went too far. Republicans tried last year to counter Cooper’s orders by passing bills to open bowling alleys, b...

What is Roy Cooper's special sauce Published March 3, 2021 A national reporter recently wrote a flattering article about Governor Roy Cooper, but seemed flummoxed by Cooper’s political success. In “What Does This Man Know That Other Democrats Don’t?” in The Atlantic, Edward-Isaac Dovere wrote, “The governor is 16–0 in primary and general elections over the past three and a half decades—in good years and bad years for Democrats, in the North Carolina of his youth and in the very different place his state has become.” Even after interviewing the Governor, he wrote, “Cooper doe...