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The United States Senate voted 53 to 47 Monday, April 4, to discharge the Senate Judiciary Committee from further consideration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 9:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Winners of a recent trial court ruling on voting rights for felons want the N.C. Supreme Court to take up the case. The ruling could affect 56,000 felons who have completed active prison time.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2021 governors’ report was released by the free-market-focused American Legislative Exchange Council in late March, and many conservatives were surprised that Democratic N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper received a better-than-average rating on his performance.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A national group that focuses on election integrity issues is calling for North Carolina to clean up its voter rolls before the 2022 election. The group’s latest report points to multiple areas that merit state election officials’ attention.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 8:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs challenging Greenville’s red-light camera enforcement program are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to stay out of the case.
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 10:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you’ve read a news story about climate change or renewable energy lately in a North Carolina newspaper, there’s a good chance the author’s salary was not paid by that newspaper but rather by funding from an environmentalist organization or other outside money.
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says the governor’s long-running COVID state of emergency is now the “status quo.”
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 7:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to block a lower court ruling against Greenville’s red-light camera enforcement program. The court granted a temporary stay Wednesday. It will allow the program to proceed as a lawsuit against red-light cameras continues.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal fight over North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program focuses now on whether a single judge or a three-judge panel should hear the case. Lawyers for the state and the scholarships’ parent supporters have filed new briefs supporting the three-judge option.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In late March, a super PAC started by U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s 2020 Democrat opponent, Moe Davis, endorsed Wendy Nevarez in the Republican primary for N.C.’s 11th Congressional District.
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2022 @ 5:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders want the N.C. Court of Appeals to block a ruling that could add 56,000 felons to the state’s voting rolls.
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2022 @ 11:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest filing in a case of now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts urges the state Supreme Court to focus on its recent precedent involving statewide election maps.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A Vietnamese automaker has announced plans to build a $4 billion electric-vehicle assembly and battery-manufacturing plant at Triangle Innovation Point in Moncure, about 30 miles west of the Triangle.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 5:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law complies with the state constitution and should survive a legal challenge.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Greenville and the Pitt County school system are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to block a ruling throwing out the city’s red-light camera enforcement program. The city and local school board filed paperwork Tuesday with the state’s highest court.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge Superior Court panel has ruled, 2-1, that felons who have completed their prison sentences in North Carolina must be permitted to vote.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 5:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The United States and United Kingdom are ending a host of costly tariffs, effective June 1, on a number of products, including whiskey.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Golden LEAF Foundation failed to monitor how $83 million in federal money from the COVID-19 Rapid Recovery Loan Program were used, a new audit finds.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 5:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Doctors, nurses, and other aid workers from North Carolina’s Samaritan’s Purse are lifting off Friday morning from Greensboro headed to Poland to to deploy a field hospital.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 9:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Despite not appearing on the ballot in 2022, North Carolina’s first black lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, has been the focus of a week’s worth of negative stories from the mainstream press.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal dispute over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education funding will head back to a Wake County courtroom on April 13. The new judge overseeing the dispute set that date during his first online meeting Thursday with lawyers involved in the case.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 5:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed to block further pretrial discovery in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The court granted a request from parents defending the school choice program.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 1:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"Jokes are funny because of their proximity to the truth, not their distance from it," said Seth Dillon, CEO of Babylon Bee
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 8:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Jennifer Pride, a language arts teacher in the Heritage Middle School, Wake Forest, can’t say enough good things about the WakeEd Partnership’s Tools4Schools store in Cary.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The case of a fired Durham police sergeant gives the N.C. Supreme Court a chance to consider constitutional protection of economic liberty.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 8:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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