Gov. Roy Cooper

Carolina Journal‘s Don Carrington reports on the Governor’s tightly coordinated pipeline campaign: Gov. Roy Cooper and his staff laid out a comprehensive plan to sell the public on the approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a $57.8 million discretionary fund connected to the project, documents show. The parties…

He said it was "The only way forward." There's no wiggle room there. But does Cooper still believe that? He appears to have backed off after other, unrelated events.

Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on the public relations group assembled to sell Gov. Roy Cooper’s actions linked to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. John Trump’s Daily Journal highlights one example of the problems created by North Carolina’s system of regulating alcohol.

Carolina Journal‘s Dan Way reports: Republican legislative leaders have reached agreement on a 2019-20 General Fund budget cap of slightly more than $24 billion, shaving about $500 million from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed spending plan. (See Editor’s note at end of this story.) Senate leader Phil Berger,…

Election dates have been set to fill vacancies in North Carolina’s 3rd and 9th Congressional Districts. Rick Henderson recaps the circumstances of both electoral contests for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Joseph Coletti analyzes Gov. Roy Cooper’s 2019-21 state budget proposals. Longtime conservative commentator William…

John Hood writes for Carolina Journal‘s Daily Journal: In North Carolina, by contrast, state government has run small to moderate surpluses every year since the end of the Great Recession. Its operating budget cannot, legally, run a deficit. Moreover, state lawmakers and governors have wisely chosen not to spend…

Carolina Journal‘s Kari Travis reports: When describing access to public records, “slow” is the first word that comes to mind, Ken Eudy, a senior adviser to Gov. Roy Cooper said Monday, March 11, during a talk on government transparency at Elon University. Eudy’s 30-minute speech came before a group…

Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online that one of Gov. Roy Cooper’s top advisers says the governor will “try harder” to comply with public records requests. John Hood’s Daily Journal says the governor’s budget proposal relies on too much debt.