The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Seventy-five people have held the office since its inception in 1776. The governor serves a term of four years and chairs the collective body of the state's elected executive officials,the Council of State. The governor's powers and responsibilities are prescribed by the state constitution and by law. They serve as the North Carolina's chief executive and are tasked by the constitution with faithfully carrying out the laws of the state. They are ex officio commander in chief of the North Carolina National Guard and director of the state budget. The office has some powers of appointment of executive branch officials,some judges,and members of boards and commissions. Governors are also empowered to grant pardons and veto legislation.
The North Carolina General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the state government of North Carolina. The legislature consists of two chambers:the Senate and the House of Representatives. The General Assembly meets in the North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh.
The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712.
Roy Asberry Cooper III is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 50th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017,and in the North Carolina General Assembly,in both the House,from 1987 to 1991,and the Senate,from 1991 to 2001.
Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century ship,most famously used as a flagship by Edward Teach,better known by his nickname Blackbeard. The date and place of the ship's construction are uncertain,and there is no record of its actions prior to 1710 when it was operating as a French privateer under the name La Concorde. Surviving features of the ship's construction strongly suggest it was built by French shipwrights,based on differences in fastening patterns in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. After several years of service by French sailors,she was captured by Blackbeard in 1717. Blackbeard used the ship for less than a year,but captured numerous prizes using her as his flagship.
The North Carolina Cabinet is the group of unelected heads of the executive departments of the Government of North Carolina. It is separate and distinct from the North Carolina Council of State,the members of which are elected statewide,and which makes up the rest of the executive leadership of the government. All cabinet secretaries are appointed by the governor.
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) is a natural history museum in Raleigh,North Carolina. The museum is the oldest in the state,and the largest natural history museum in the Southeastern United States.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is an agency of the government of North Carolina that focuses on the preservation and protection of natural resources and public health. The department is headed by the Secretary of Environmental Quality,who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and is a member of the North Carolina Cabinet. The Department of Environmental Quality was formed in 2015 and it was preceded by the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources,which was formed in 1971 by the North Carolina Executive Reorganization Act. The current secretary is Elizabeth Biser,who was appointed to the role by Governor Roy Cooper.
Dale Robbins Folwell is an American politician who has been the North Carolina State Treasurer since 2017. A Republican from Winston-Salem,North Carolina,Folwell spent four terms in North Carolina House of Representatives,including a term as speaker pro tempore from 2011 to 2013. He was head of the state's Division of Employment Security in the administration of Governor Pat McCrory from 2013 to 2015. He was elected State Treasurer in the 2016 election,taking office on January 1,2017. Folwell was reelected to a second term in 2020,defeating Democratic challenger Ronnie Chatterji.
Dominion Energy,Inc.,commonly referred to as Dominion,is an American energy company headquartered in Richmond,Virginia that supplies electricity in parts of Virginia,North Carolina,and South Carolina and supplies natural gas to parts of Utah,Idaho and Wyoming,West Virginia,Ohio,Pennsylvania,North Carolina,South Carolina,and Georgia. Dominion also has generation facilities in Indiana,Illinois,Connecticut,and Rhode Island.
Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve is a joint project between the North Carolina state park system and Cary,Wake County,North Carolina in the United States. Located in Cary,it covers approximately 140-acre (0.57 km2) in the Research Triangle region of the state. The state owns 97-acre (0.39 km2) of the preserve,known as Hemlock Bluffs State Natural Area. The Town of Cary owns approximately 42-acre (0.17 km2) of the preserve,and the town leases the state's land for management. The preserve protects a population of Eastern Hemlock trees and other vegetation more typically found further west,in the Appalachian Mountains. The tall,north-facing bluffs of Swift Creek provide conditions similar enough to the mountains to have allowed the plant communities to have survived there since the last ice age.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is a cabinet-level department within the state government of North Carolina dedicated to overseeing projects in the arts,culture,and history within the borders of the state. The current Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources,the cabinet-level officer who oversees the department,is D. Reid Wilson. Wilson has been in office since January 2021 and was immediately preceded by Susi Hamilton,who served as secretary from 2017 to 2020
Susan Wear Kluttz is a former Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and was formerly the longest-serving mayor of Salisbury,North Carolina.
Nautilus Productions LLC is an American video production,stock footage,and photography company incorporated in Fayetteville,North Carolina in 1997. The principals are producer/director Rick Allen and photographer Cindy Burnham. Nautilus specializes in documentary production and underwater videography,and produced QAR DiveLive,a live webcast of underwater archaeology filmed at the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge in 2000 and 2001.
Grimsby GO Station is a proposed commuter rail station on the GO Transit train and bus network in Southern Ontario,Canada. Located in the town of Grimsby in the Regional Municipality of Niagara,it would be a stop on the Lakeshore West line,east of the proposed Confederation GO Station in Hamilton. It was expected to open in 2021 and would have been the first station to open in the planned Niagara extension,which will also include stops at St. Catharines and Niagara Falls stations.
Deborah Armfield "Deb" Butler is an American politician and attorney serving as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,where she has served since 2017. She represents the 18th House District,covering a portion of New Hanover County,as a member of the Democratic Party.
Kyle Hall is an American businessman and politician currently serving in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
