Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 3:13:39 PM
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Posted Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 8:59:32 AM
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Posted Monday, March 26, 2018 at 3:46:22 PM
Why
Are You Here? A Primer for State
Legislators and Citizens
By Franklin
L. Kury
This handbook challenges state legislators and their
constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate
action to improve it. The author describes
the work and nature of legislatures and the role of their members as agents of
their districts. Acknowledging that many legislatures have fallen in public
esteem, Kury provides an analytical discussion for evaluating how any
legislature deals with major issues: private
benefits versus public service, compensation, the rise of the full-time
legislature, campaign contributions, lobbying, reapportionment of legislative
and Congressional districts, scandal and ethical questions.
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Posted Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 9:03:17 AM
Bills Eligible for Consideration During the 2018 Session is
now available. It includes a list of
bills that made the April 27, 2017 crossover deadline. This is the date by which most bills must
pass from one chamber to the other chamber to be eligible for consideration for
the remainder of the regular session.
Any questions about the List? Please don't hesitate to
come by, email or give us a call at 733-9390.
We’re here to help you!
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Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 10:58:50 AM
North
Carolina Beyond the Connected Age: The
Tar Heel State in 2050
By Michael L. Walden
“For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation’s
fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state’s people,
industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change
resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the
state more fully to the country and the world. But we are now moving beyond the
connected age, argues Michael L. Walden, to a new era of living, production,
and work, and North Carolina faces not only unanswered questions about the past
but also new challenges and opportunities visible on the horizon. What will these
new transformations mean for the state’s people, places, and prosperity?
In
this book, Walden lays out these looming economic issues and offers predictions
of future trends as well as multiple policy options for taxation,
infrastructure, and environmental issues. While the future cannot be perfectly
predicted, Walden’s expert analysis is mandatory reading for policy makers,
business leaders, and everyday people seeking to prepare for upcoming changes
in North Carolina’s economy.” -UNC
Press
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Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 9:33:05 AM
Check out this informative blog entry about extra,
special, veto, and reconvened legislative sessions from the UNC School of
Government Coates’ Canons Blog.
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Posted Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 5:01:56 PM
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We’ll
be closed for the holidays on Monday, December 25th - Wednesday, December 27th and
again on Monday, January 1st. Any
questions… please call 919-733-9390 for more information.
Happy New Year from the NC Legislative Library!
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Posted Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 10:03:23 AM
On December 5, 1902, the North Carolina Museum of History was born when Frederick Augustus Olds’s private collection of artifacts merged with the State Museum’s collection and opened to the public as the Hall of History. Over our 115-year history, the museum has grown and evolved—not just with a new name and location, but also with celebrated exhibits, educational tools, digital collections, a Smithsonian affiliation, and more.
The North Carolina Museum of History has come a long way since 1902! Here’s a quick look at the museum today, by the numbers: - 55,000 square feet of exhibit space on two floors
- 50,000+ artifacts (including stone tools dating from 12,000 BCE; weaponry and uniforms from the Civil War and Word War I; a sword recovered from Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge; and the complete Cumberland County workshop of gun inventor David Marshall “Carbine” Williams)
- 14,000+ years of history covered in the museum’s signature exhibit, The Story of North Carolina
- 11 current exhibits, including six permanent exhibits
- 200,000+ visitors to North Carolina and World War I, our most-visited exhibit of record (exhibit opened April 2017)
- 415,000+ museum attendees in 2016; nearly 360,000 (including 99,000+ students) so far in 2017
- 8,000+ visitors attended the African American Cultural Celebration, breaking the record for 2016
- 13,000 students in 60 counties engaged through live stream educational programs
Click here to read more about the history of the museum.
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Posted Friday, November 3, 2017 at 3:20:11 PM
Click
here to view a list of the 2017-2018 Session Laws.
If
you have questions about how to locate session laws or any other legislative
information... please don't hesitate to
come by, email us or give us a call.
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Posted Friday, September 8, 2017 at 4:34:51 PM
Check
out this recent blog entry from the UNC School of Government Coates’ Canons: NC
Local Government Law Blog - Statues and Statutes: Limits on Removing Monuments
from Public Property by UNC SOG faculty member Adam Lovelady.
If
you have questions about how to locate statutes, session laws or any other
legislative information... please don't
hesitate to come by, email us or give us a call.
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