The thousands of grassroots members of Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina are dedicated to free markets, lower taxes and limited government.  We are concerned about the ever growing burden placed on taxpayers through forced public funding …

Raleigh, N.C. – It’s possible the state is violating North Carolina’s constitutional requirement for a balanced budget.
The discrepancy boils down to accounting. State budget writers work on a cash basis, but accounting rules encourage budget writers to work on an accrual basis.
Accrual accounting would require budget writers to account for the promises they’ve made to state workers. A change would immediately highlight a $28 billion shortfall in the retiree health benefits promised to state workers.

H.R. 4173 will promote job creation and grow the economy, and will ensure that our financial system can never again cause the type of damage that it did in 2008.

N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue was elected chair of the Southern Regional Education Board at its annual meeting Monday in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The SREB has 16 member states from Texas to Delaware. The organization works to improve pre-K-12 and higher ed…

Sen. Robert Byrd, who died early Monday morning at age 92, was an icon of West Virginia and U.S. politics, but his roots were in the foothills of North Carolina. Byrd was born near North Wilkesboro, in Wilkes County, in 1917 and named Cornelius Calvin…

This year’s State Convention and State Executive Committee meeting will be held on July 31st through August 1st, respectively, at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux in Fayetteville. The Sanford Hunt Frye Dinner will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday following the St…

Gov. Beverly Perdue signed Susie’s Law Wednesday. Named for a pit bull puppy left badly burned last year – Susie’s Law reclassifies malicious animal cruelty from a Class I to a Class H Felony and gives a judge the ability to sentence a convicted offend…

U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan used a Kings Mountain blackberry farm Monday as a stage on which to highlight her efforts to protect family farms from burdensome regulations. Last summer, the House passed the Food Safety Modernization Act, which would give the U.S…

Washington, DC–Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05) introduced bipartisan legislation today that…