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Longtime college basketball commentator Billy Packer died Thursday night at age 82. While most people remember Packer for his role in the sports world, Carolina Journal readers might remember his battle with state environmental regulators, documented by executive editor Don Carrington in May 2011.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fishing communities in every coastal state have tried to alert the Biden administration to offshore wind energy’s threat to their industry and marine habitats, biodiversity, and oceanography
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 4:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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, July 25th, 2022 @ 6:58 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: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 7:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper announced nominations and appointments to North Carolina boards and commissions today.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 3:15 am
By: Governor's Office
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Mrs. Velma Lee Bridgeman Waters, age 86, a resident of Washington, NC died Tuesday November 16, 2021 at her home with family by her side.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 9:02 am
By: Announcements
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper appointed Elizabeth Biser to lead the Department of Environmental Quality as Secretary.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 8:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that he accepted the nominations for Carr McLamb and Tommy Tucker as the newest members of the State Board of Elections.
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2020 @ 2:16 am
By: Governor's Office
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In true government fashion, the NC House has tried to slip a very bad bill past the citizens of North Carolina and has rushed and hushed it in order to prejudice those most harmed, our North Carolina commercial fishermen and our fellow recreational fishermen.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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While the NC House has been aggressive in its protection for the interests of big hospitals and physicians and other healthcare workers, it has done just the opposite for North Carolina's commercial fisherman.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 12:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline cuts a 600-mile underground swath through three states, beginning in Harrison County, West Virginia
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The final footnote of decades-long legal battles over coastal land adjacent to Hammocks Beach State Park in Onslow County ended Tuesday when the state released a master plan expanding the park
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 3:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We are pleased to present to you this year's Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. This report is a snapshot of last year's water quality.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Rep. Chris Millis says the renewable energy industry hoodwinked North Carolina about the costs of giving special deals to renewable producers, which exploded from an initial projection of less than $5 million to $1.6 billion in payouts through 2016
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2017 @ 5:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper today announced a new leadership team for the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 @ 6:02 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On October 18, the Civitas Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) filed suit against Roy Cooper in his capacity as North Carolina attorney general, alleging he illegally diverted money from public education to special interest groups.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 4:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A lawsuit filed by the president of a conservative policy organization says the North Carolina Constitution requires payments from a 2000 agreement between pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. and the North Carolina Department of Justice go to public schools
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2016 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 18 with Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 5:06 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The McCrory campaign released the following statement in response to Larry Hall's press conference politicizing coal ash
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 3:23 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor McCrory is holding Duke Energy accountable and cleaning up coal ash ponds once and for all, Roy Cooper let this problem fester for more than 28 years during his career as a top lawmaker and as attorney general. Instead of ever addressing coal ash
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2016 @ 5:03 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 10:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The graph below compares the temperature predictions of the major climate models to actual climate change figures using satellite data, considered to be the most accurate, going back to 1979 when satellite records began. The graph, compiled by University of Alabama at Huntsville climatologists...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A nearly eight-year-long legal battle between the state of North Carolina and Alcoa Power Generating Inc. over four hydroelectric dams the company owns and operates on the Yadkin River may be coming to an end.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an article from WRAL.com lamenting the fact that economic development grants made by the state of North Carolina did not "create" as many jobs as originally intended, John Skvarla, North Carolina's Commerce Secretary and number 1 cheerleader for taxpayer funded business incentives, stated that...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this lecture to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers delivered this week, Patrick Moore, ecologist as well as founder and long time leader of Greenpeace, argues that the planet has actually been in a long term (50 million year) cooling trend; that long term temperature records...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though Alcoa Power Generating Inc. has won two more legal battles against the state of North Carolina dealing with the company’s efforts to relicense its four hydroelectric dams on the Yadkin River, the state plans to continue fighting to gain control of those facilities...
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As part of his remarks while visiting the White House on his first day in the United States, Pope Francis made a strong plea on behalf of religious liberty, which he specifically directed at President Obama. This came shortly before he made an unscheduled visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That North Carolina's system of automobile inspections persists is, as I wrote in my 2013 report on Carolina Cronyism, "a triumph of cronyism." North Carolina is one of only 17 states that require safety inspections of automobiles, though there have been frequent legislative efforts to end them...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who have been fighting to eliminate solar and other renewable energy subsidies from the burden being born by North Carolina's taxpayers, the new state budget is very welcome. As of January 1, the 35 percent tax credit for renewables in general and solar in particular, by far the...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Approves Final Budget that Invests Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Public Education, Provides Major Tax Relief
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 3:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is now being acknowledged by even its staunchest supporters that the solar industry in North Carolina is completely a creature of government mandates and subsidies and could never stand on its own without wealth transfers from taxpayers and rate payers. In other words, it is completely welfare...
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper, The North Carolina Republican Party urged Cooper to put politics aside and do his job by defending the state against new overreaching federal EPA rules.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 10:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When I was a boy we could walk out on the shore of our Neuse River summer home, cast out a line on a rod and reel and catch enough good-sized Croakers for supper in about an hour.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 9:58 am
By: Tom Campbell
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I have never been a fan of the Fair Tax, a proposal to abolish the income tax and substitute a national sales tax. My opposition has nothing to do with the merits of a national sales tax as opposed to an income tax per se. Clearly, as an economist, I agree that the proper and most efficient tax...
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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