Governor Roy Cooper today noted that North Carolina’s infant deaths in 2018 reached their lowest rate in the 31 years they have been tracked, decreasing for a third straight year to 6.8 deaths per 1,000 live births down 4.2 percent from the previous year’s rate of 7.1 per 1000 live births.
Governor Cooper announced today that FEMA has approved his request to add 12 more counties to those eligible to receive reimbursements for Hurricane Dorian response and recovery expenses.
t’s been 100 days since Governor Roy Cooper and Democrats offered Republicans a balanced budget compromise.
Today the U.S. Small Business Administration granted Governor Cooper’s request for a disaster declaration for counties that suffered damages from Hurricane Dorian, making additional assistance available to residents there.
The legislature has once again gone on vacation without doing anything for teachers who have started the school year without a state-funded pay raise.
Governor Roy Cooper was in Asheville yesterday meeting with teachers to talk about the need for a significant teacher pay raise.
Governor Roy Cooper sent a letter today to the U.S. Small Business Administration requesting that the SBA grant a disaster declaration for North Carolina counties that were affected by Hurricane Dorian.