{"id":1925672,"date":"2026-07-29T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1925672"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:24:07","slug":"nc-senate-finalizes-bill-with-new-power-grabs-millions-in-taxpayer-dollars-for-sporting-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1925672","title":{"rendered":"NC Senate finalizes bill with new power grabs, millions in taxpayer dollars for sporting events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bills making changes to the new state budget, including spending tens of millions on golf and military games and stripping power from Democratic politicians including Gov. Josh Stein, passed the state Senate Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/nccapitol\/nc-budget-change-correct-pga-golf-greensboro-charlotte-military-games-marshall-stein-power-grab-local-government-july-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bills making changes to the new state budget, including spending tens of millions on golf and military games and stripping power from Democratic politicians including Gov&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925673,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925672\/revisions\/1925673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}