Gov. Roy Cooper

With four new vetoes announced this morning, Gov. Roy Cooper now has used his veto stamp 42 times. That’s a record for N.C. governors and more than twice as many as the 20 vetoes Bev Perdue issued in her single term in the executive mansion. Mike Easley vetoed nine…

Republican elected officials and campaign staff must be ecstatic right now.  Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have granted raises to public school teachers and staff. The ads will write themselves.    …

It's hard to distinguish this reporting, such as it is, from a release from the governor's press office. The article takes at face value terms and assumptions used by the governor that ought to be challenged. It also misses several opportunities to provide additional context.

In Governor Roy Cooper’s 2017 State of the State address, he took a strident position against corporate tax cuts and giveaways: “We cannot sacrifice education at the altar of even more corporate tax cuts or giveaways that are mostly for the wealthiest.” But as I asked earlier this year,…

Carolina Journal Online reports on the N.C. General Assembly wrapping up much of its work for the year. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why name-calling won’t help Gov. Roy Cooper respond to recent blows to his administration.

Gov. Cooper's office wants to justify direct handouts ("grants") and tax cuts ("tax incentives") to just one industry — film productions — because they'd patronize small businesses in North Carolina.

North Carolina is on track to increase the number of electric vehicles on its roads. As a matter of fact, one of the key facets of Gov. Roy Cooper’s Clean Energy Plan is the electrification of transportation in the state. Specifically, he wants to increase the number of so-called…

I'm glad to see the governor swerve onto our side of the discussion on low tax rates, which is the empirically sound side of the argument.