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Yadkin Ripple
February 21, 2018
In 2013, Governor Pat McCrory appointed Daoud to the North Carolina Lottery Commission, where he helped oversee a $2 billion budget. McCrory identified Daoud as the only fiscal conservative to provide more money for education by identifying and eliminating wasteful spending. In recent years, DaoudÃÂ ...
News & Observer (blog)
February 21, 2018
For some Raleigh residents, two of the names on the ballot for state House will be the same in the 2018 elections as they were two years ago. Marilyn Avila, a Republican who represented northwestern Wake County for five terms before losing her seat to Democrat Joe John in 2016, wants a rematch.
PEOPLE.com
February 21, 2018
In 2013, Graham delivered his final sermon in a video message he presented at his 95th birthday party for a crowd that included Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and North Carolina governor Pat McCrory. “Our country's in great need of a spiritual awakening,” he said in the video, titled “My Hope America.
Winston-Salem Journal
February 21, 2018
RALEIGH — A legal challenge of a special session called by Republicans at the North Carolina General Assembly to pass laws that eroded Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's powers just before he took office is going to trial. A panel of three Superior Court judges scheduled arguments Wednesday fromÃÂ ...
News & Observer (blog)
February 13, 2018
“The people of North Carolina will not stand for a culture of corruption and it's time for a full and complete ethics investigation!” McCrory said in his post Monday. In an interview with The News & Observer on Tuesday morning, McCrory said he's never heard of a governor setting up a “slush fund” like this andÃÂ ...
WBT
February 7, 2018
Pat McCrory talks with Bo. The US Supreme Court says North Carolina must use some, but not all of the state's legislative districts that the federal judges redrew for this elections this year. Panthers put interim GM Marty Hurney on paid leave after ex-wife's allegations. Trump calling for a military parade thisÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 30, 2018
Once again, that represents a markedly lower rate of growth during Cooper's first year than the rates North Carolina experienced during Pat McCrory's tenure as governor, when real GDP growth usually outpaced the national and regional averages. Indeed, in 2016 North Carolina's real GDP surged by 2.9ÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
January 26, 2018
Previously, the board had five members, with three from the governor's party. Under former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, the body authorized a dramatic rollback of early voting and a reduction in polling places, particularly in minority-heavy communities. Cooper planned to reverse these policies.
News & Observer
January 25, 2018
He reached North Carolina's top office in 2013, and now he's launching a business invoking that accomplishment. Former Gov. Pat McCrory, the state's 74th governor, recently launched 74Leadership Inc. The business appears to be headquartered at his home, a $516,000 house in Charlotte's Myers ParkÃÂ ...
Charlotte Observer
January 24, 2018
If Pat McCrory had started a second term as governor a year ago, we would today be barreling toward allowing drilling off the North Carolina coast. But Roy Cooper won and he is digging in to fight the Trump administration's plan to open the state's waters to oil rigs. McCrory was a big offshore drillingÃÂ ...
Lexington Dispatch
January 23, 2018
North Carolina is probably not that desperate, but the Toyota-Mazda incentives package shows both Republicans and Democrats will gladly cough up a ton of money to land thousands of jobs. Incentives were once more controversial here. Back in 2014, then-Gov. Pat McCrory struggled to persuade hisÃÂ ...
WSOC Charlotte
January 23, 2018
Before selling to Cube, Alcoa won a multiyear battle with the state of North Carolina in 2016 when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a new operating license allowing the central North Carolina dams to keep generating electricity for sale until 2055. Former governors Pat McCrory andÃÂ ...
CityLab
January 12, 2018
Republican leaders often cast North Carolina's cities as outsiders to the political mainstream, which they define as conservative and rural. Former Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, invoked “North Carolina values” to justify both House Bill 2 and another law banning sanctuary cities. And at a hearing lastÃÂ ...
Hornell Evening Tribune
January 9, 2018
Current North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory once said reporters aren't capable of understanding his economic plans. “This is too complex for journalists,” the Asheville Mountain Xpress quoted McCrory. “They don't have economics degrees; they've not been in business.” Raleigh News and ObserverÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
January 9, 2018
Pat McCrory – who took the helm of the state in a year when the economy was still recovering from the recession. Citing figures from the state .... Both economists point out that North Carolina governors aren't completely helpless when it comes to impacting state economies. "I don't know that a governor canÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 9, 2018
A lack of transparency around public records during the former administration of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has now cost North Carolina taxpayers a quarter of a million dollars. The state's top elected officials voted Tuesday to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by The News & Observer, theÃÂ ...
Stanly News & Press
January 5, 2018
... of Commerce leaders have been efficient in making incentive deals, but the same incentive programs were used by McCrory and previous governors. Republicans argue that Cooper is taking credit for companies attracted to North Carolina by their recent tax cuts — cuts that the governor wants to cancel.
Smoky Mountain News
January 3, 2018
That year also saw the election of Barack Obama — who won North Carolina by less than a third of a percent — as president, and the election of Democrat Bev Perdue as N.C. governor by four points over future Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. By then, Zeb was finishing up law school at Chapel Hill, but hadÃÂ ...
Black Mountain News
January 3, 2018
In September 2016, former governor Pat McCrory announced Avadim would invest $24.4 million to build its headquarters just outside of the Black Mountain town limits, bringing with it 551 jobs. Business North Carolina magazine placed the expansion fifth among its top 20 development projects in the stateÃÂ ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
January 3, 2018
RALEIGH – North Carolina Democrats say they are beginning 2018 energized and intent on regaining their historical control of the state's General ... narrowly defeated GOP incumbent Pat McCrory in 2016, they've still been unable to stop the GOP agenda because most of the Democratic governor's vetoesÃÂ ...
Wilkes Journal Patriot
January 2, 2018
Those stats show Cooper's Department of Commerce leaders have been efficient in making incentive deals, but the same incentive programs were used by McCrory and previous governors. Republicans argue that Cooper is taking credit for companies attracted to North Carolina by their recent tax cutsÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
December 31, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Democrats say they are beginning 2018 energized and intent on regaining control of the state's General Assembly, ... While Democrats regained a bully pulpit when Governor Roy Cooper narrowly defeated GOP incumbent Pat McCrory in 2016, they've still been unable toÃÂ ...
News & Observer
December 27, 2017
Doing so would also increase the federal tax burden on people all over the country, including in North Carolina. PolitiFact rated this claim Mostly True. 4. Former Gov. Pat McCrory said in November that HB2 was “never really repealed.” House Bill 2 was indeed trashed, and the most controversial part of it isÃÂ ...
Salon
December 26, 2017
ya-embed-logo In July of 2013, North Carolina governor Pat McCrory signed a state budget that included school choice vouchers for students and implemented a new program called the Opportunity Scholarship Program. At the time, North Carolina was the tenth state to implement a program that has nowÃÂ ...
Insurance Journal
December 20, 2017
North Carolina's environmental agency is revising internal policies after complaints the agency under former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory repeatedly failed to investigate when industrial-scale hog farms violate anti-pollution rules. The Waterkeeper Alliance and other groups said Tuesday they're settlingÃÂ ...
Charlotte Observer
December 5, 2017
Pat McCrory said Tuesday that he's still considering the future of his new radio talk show, and that there's a downside to being recognized in his longtime ... During his address, McCrory said his biggest disappointment from his time in the governor's mansion is not getting transportation funds into a massiveÃÂ ...
News & Observer
December 4, 2017
Now that former Gov. Pat. McCrory has landed a regular spot on a talk radio program in Charlotte, a caller may want to ask how his plan to “fix DMV” worked out. Fixing the Division of Motor Vehicles seemed a modest goal for a new governor in 2013, but McCrory's stressed it as one of his first priorities.
Coastal Review Online
December 31, 1999
A close race for governor between incumbent Republican Pat McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper wasn't decided until mid-December 2016 and a series of ... Molly Diggins, executive director of the North Carolina Sierra Club, said the most noticeable change in 2017 was definitely the new governor.
News & Observer
December 4, 2017
Pat McCrory's DEQ appointees. If McCrory – a former Duke ... There's no doubt North Carolina needs reliable sources of energy, but there is doubt about whether it needs a massive new pipeline carrying natural gas from fracking operations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Whether it does will become ...
Winston-Salem Journal
December 4, 2017
Taxes have long been targeted by many conservatives as obstacles to economic growth. In 2013, the Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina started rolling back taxes. Former Gov. Pat McCrory labeled it the "Carolina Comeback" and sold the plan as a way to energize a state economy growing ...
News & Observer
December 1, 2017
Pat McCrory on the radio more and more lately, you're not imagining things. ... other job possibilities. The governor's expanded role came after an “extraordinary” response to his early-morning spots, Hanlon said. ... He's also not shy about talking politics, including issues from his one term as governor.
All Access Music Group
December 1, 2017
Former NORTH CAROLINA Governor PAT MCCRORY will appear weekdays on ENTERCOM News-Talk WBT-A-F/CHARLOTTE in the 9-10a (ET) hour, joining morning host BO THOMPSON, reports the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. MCCRORY has been making regular appearances with THOMPSON since ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 30, 2017
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is taking an expanded role on Charlotte's airwaves after a radio station manager says his recent daily segments got an "extraordinary" response. The former Republican governor and WBT radio personality Bo Thompson are now ...
Greensboro News & Record
November 29, 2017
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's environment Cabinet chief under then-Gov. Pat McCrory has retired from a lesser job within the agency weeks after the department suspended him. Donald van der Vaart told WBTV he submitted his retirement letter Tuesday to the Department of Environmental ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 29, 2017
North Carolina's environment Cabinet chief under former Gov. Pat McCrory retires, weeks after department suspended him from a lesser job within the agency. Nov. 29, 2017, at 1:15 p.m. ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's environment office chief under former Gov. Pat McCrory has retired weeks after the ...
WBTV
November 29, 2017
Former North Carolina Secretary of Environmental Quality Donald van ... served as DEQ Secretary under Republican Governor Pat McCrory.
News & Observer (blog)
November 28, 2017
The N.C. Insider analyzed election results from the 2016 governor's race to ... that voted about 53 percent for Republican Pat McCrory last year.
News & Observer
November 22, 2017
To hear former Gov. Pat McCrory tell it, protesters would still be carrying on in front of the governor's mansion if only they read the fine print of the so-called HB2 repeal. That's what they did after McCrory last year signed House Bill 2, which required people to use bathrooms in North Carolina government ...
Kinston Free Press
November 22, 2017
RALEIGH — North Carolina has already accomplished what Republicans ... Pat McCrory in 2012, legislative leaders had an ally rather than an ...
WFAE
November 22, 2017
After Democrat Roy Cooper defeated Republican Governor Pat McCrory a year ago, state environmental secretary Donald van der Vaart gave ...
Charlotte Observer
November 22, 2017
Pat McCrory was ready to open up: about the harassment he says he and ... who backed the Libertarian candidate for governor were partly to blame for ... Former North Carolina players Billy Cunningham (left), Phil Ford, and ...
WBT
November 20, 2017
The governor over there. Pat McCrory is with us send you had quite a weekend. Can Barney's Molly got married but last of my nieces and I had ...
News & Observer (blog)
November 7, 2017
Former Gov. Pat McCrory says Trump voters who voted for the Libertarian candidate in the governor's race were partly to blame for his loss last ...
New York Times
November 5, 2017
But North Carolina is finding that it is easier to plunge into a culture war than .... too,” said Pat McCrory, the Republican former governor whose ...
News & Observer
November 3, 2017
Pat McCrory, running for a seat on the Apex Town Council. ... Wake County, said his work for the governor was separate from his local ambitions. ... said Mike Rusher, who used to work for the North Carolina Republican Party.
WBT
November 1, 2017
Pat McCrory talks with Bo. When Pat was in Homeland Security for Bush, this was there concern, although not the use of vehicles. Type of soft ...
The Stokes News
October 31, 2017
Former N.C. Governor Pat McCrory came out in support of Hall, and said ... next generation of leaders for North Carolina and you've got such a ...
News & Observer (blog)
October 25, 2017
Pat McCrory made a bold statement about the law's compromise ... North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and his challenger Attorney General ...
PolitiFact
December 31, 1999
And protests that occurred in front of the governor's mansion in Raleigh when former Gov. Pat McCrory was in office have dissipated. All this ...
News & Observer
December 31, 1999
Pat McCrory, an error by state workers in charge of processing Medicaid claims led to an estimated $63 million in improper Medicaid payments.
