A Superior Court judge has reversed course on a $2.5-million settlement granting a Confederate veterans group ownership of Silent Sam.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina System over transparency issues hope their case will pave the way for greater openness and accountability at UNC.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 3:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Silent Sam deal might encourage copycats.
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 2:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Forty protesters marched out of a Chapel Hill meeting room Friday, Dec. 13, raising their voices against a recent decision surrounding Silent Sam, the Confederate monument that formerly stood on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 9:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors has a transparency problem. Again.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Judicial Council convened Thursday, Dec. 5, to discuss judicial branch reforms and to push for increased funding.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 11:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The deal turns over the Confederate monument, which stood on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus for more than a century, to the Confederate group, along with a promised $2.5 million trust fund for the statue’s upkeep and eventual display.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On July 2, the Chancellorsville (Virginia) City Council voted to no longer recognize Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13, as a celebrated a paid holiday. Chancellorsville is the hometown of our country's most renown Founding Father.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 12:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Silent Sam should not return to the Chapel Hill campus, the leader of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors says.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System is governed by confusion, and the problem is as much systemic as it is situational.
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Since January 2016, the University of North Carolina system has had two “permanent” presidents and two interim leaders (including current Interim President Dr. Bill Roper).
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2019 @ 5:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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People wanting to learn the fate of Silent Sam will have to wait a bit longer
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 4:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An after-action report on the toppling of Silent Sam reveals "serious deficiencies" in how UNC-Chapel Hill law enforcement handled the situation.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 7:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Much of the controversy surrounding Silent Sam can be traced to a 2015 law protecting historical monuments from removal or relocation without official approval.
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2019 @ 1:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, Jan. 14, Folt announced her plans to leave her position in Chapel Hill at the end of the academic year and to remove Silent Sam's pedestal from campus.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 4:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt will leave her job at the end of the academic year, and Silent Sam's pedestal is going with her, she announced to the UNC Board of Governors in an emergency closed session meeting Jan. 14.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 1:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In case you've missed, there has been yet another controversy brewing over a Confederate statue, this one in Winston-Salem.
Published: Sunday, January 13th, 2019 @ 7:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The saga of Silent Sam will continue into 2019
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings is about to leave her job in Chapel Hill, saddling her successor with a daunting task: wrangling a perfect storm of campus and state politics
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Silent Sam soon may return to campus after the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a recommendation to rehouse the Confederate memorial in a new, on-campus historic education center near UNC Medical Center
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 9:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to the toppling in August of the Confederate Monument at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chancellor Carol Folt and other UNC leaders have proposed a controversial solution: a new $5.3 million building on campus that will cost $800,000 a year to operate
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 5:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Silent Sam - the controversial Confederate statue that formerly stood on UNC Chapel Hill's campus - may turn into a rallying election issue for liberal activists, a member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors told Carolina Journal.
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2018 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina politics can be exhausting. The past few weeks have brought us wrangling over redistricting and constitutional amendments, conflicts between Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican lawmakers over disaster relief and a gas-pipeline fund, and a mob of protesters toppling the Silent Sam statue
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lately, a lot of emotion has been spent over Confederate monuments in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 @ 8:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Let's be honest. The toppling of the Confederate monuments, the demonization of the Confederate battle flag, the vilification of the names and memories of our treasured white Founding Fathers (and especially anyone of them who happened to own a slave), and the erasing of our history.
Published: Friday, September 21st, 2018 @ 9:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill stood the noble statue of "Silent Sam," the Confederate soldier who stood vigilant watch over the campus. It stood on McCorkle place, the University's upper quad, facing Franklin Street.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Politicians tell people what they want to hear. Leaders tell people what they need to hear, even if they don't want to listen
Published: Wednesday, September 5th, 2018 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Board of Trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill will make suggestions by Nov. 15 about what to do with Silent Sam, the campus’s controversial Confederate statue torn down by protesters, members of the university system’s Board of Governors say
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commission: State Should Augment Confederate Monuments at Capitol with Inclusive Historical TributesThe N.C. Historical Commission said it is hamstrung by state law and a legislature that won't allow controversial Confederate monuments on the old Capitol grounds in Raleigh to be moved
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper shared the following statement in response to today's Historical Commission meeting
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 @ 10:35 am
By: Governor's Office
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I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960's
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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