-
Six weeks into a budget stalemate, Republican House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday he won't stop trying to cobble together enough votes to override Gov.…
-
Billy Richardson has a distinct rasp to his voice. That voice, plus his reddened eyes and ruddy complexion, give the Cumberland County Democrat an air of…
-
The state house unanimously passed a spending bill Wednesday, but it wasn't the two-year budget plan vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper late last month.The stopgap…
-
Leaders of the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly put off likely defeat for at least one more day. Rather than hold an almost certainly…
-
Republicans leading the North Carolina House have delayed a vote to attempt to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the GOP's state budget…
-
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper won't get to influence a final state budget unless enough fellow Democrats uphold his veto of a spending plan penned by…
-
Governor Roy Cooper called a Republican-backed state spending plan a failure on Friday morning, as he stated his intentions to veto the budget, while…
-
Updated 9:45 | June 26, 2019The joint budget plan worked out by Republican legislative leaders is one step closer to going to the governor's desk--and a…
-
Updated May 31, 2019 | 1:37 p.m. Negotiations between legislative budget-writers now begin in earnest after the Senate completed voting on its version of…
-
Updated at 2:38 p.m.Senate Republicans have released a proposed North Carolina government budget that emphasizes state employee salary increases and puts…