North Carolina’s inability to pass a two-year state budget has drawn plenty of critics. Tom Campbell, a longtime political pundit in the state who sits in the NC Broadcasters Hall of Fame, wrote recently that the General Assembly should be ashamed.<\/p>\n
“When the General Assembly convened the 2021 session Jan. 13, it was scheduled to adjourn July 2. Our lawmakers had three primary tasks — passing a new biennial state budget, drawing new districts for congressional, legislative, and local government elections, and appropriating a large accumulated surplus,” Campbell wrote recently in an op-ed titled, “North Carolina Is a Textbook on How Not to Run a State.”<\/p>\n
\nOn Sept. 13, they have been meeting eight months, and in baseball parlance, they are 0 for 3,”<\/strong> Campbell opined.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nNorth Carolina, so far, has also swung and missed on sports betting. State fiscal projections say the state could receive upwards of $20 million annually from legal sports betting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Carolina sports betting gained Senate approval in August after lawmakers there passed Senate Bill 688 by a vote of 26-19. This week, nearly a month later, legislation has been referred to the House Committee on Commerce for initial review. SB 688 seeks to legalize sports betting, with its operations largely conducted online. Because North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":185947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
North Carolina Sports Betting Bill Odds Long in House<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n