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The Cooper administration’s announcement of a “Memorandum of Understanding” with the nation of Denmark to share “knowledge, data, and best practices” over offshore wind energy development predictably set their media acolytes abuzz.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient zero-emissions resources “are available and can replace at scale what gas contributes to the system”
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Less than a week before lawyers on both sides of the case were scheduled to head to the N.C. Court of Appeals, a lawsuit challenging key decisions in North Carolina’s Medicaid “transformation” is going away.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 1:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 @ 6:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a late-night legislative session, the N.C. House passed an energy bill early Thursday morning, July 15
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 @ 5:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“The truth is that Beth Woods and Lisa Barnes, a Democrat and a Republican, are operating tactics and strategies out of the old 1898 racist playbook.”
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 10:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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2020 NC elections, like states around the country, were marked by lawsuit settlements that changed voting rules without consulting the legislature
Published: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate rolled out a budget proposal this week that would expand school choice across the state while raising teacher pay and seeking to remedy student learning losses due to closed classrooms because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrats and their left-leaning allies offered the same criticism they have over every state budget Republicans have proposed over the last decade
Published: Monday, June 28th, 2021 @ 4:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When discussing topics like diversity and inclusion, it is important to have a shared language on the buzzwords used.
Published: Sunday, May 30th, 2021 @ 6:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In anticipation of delayed results from the U.S. Census this year, N.C. lawmakers have introduced a bill that gives local municipalities the option of delaying their 2021 elections to 2022.
Published: Saturday, May 29th, 2021 @ 2:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former President Donald Trump will deliver the featured remarks at next month’s state Republican Party convention in Greenville.
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 10:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Public school teachers in North Carolina receive an average annual salary of $53,392 for the current school year, according to the latest figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 8:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent Carolina Journal story detailed Attorney General Josh Stein’s fight for school administrators to retain sweeping powers to regulate and punish North Carolina public school students for disfavored speech that occurs off-campus.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With new U.S. Census data not expected until September, the State Board of Elections is recommending moving all of this year’s municipal elections to 2022.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 11:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A former South Carolina congressman says it’s possible to get N.C. conservatives to back a carbon tax and other progressive climate change policies if the left uses an economic argument to do so.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 11:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill seeking to extend a delay on payment deadlines for certain alcohol permits quickly cleared an N.C. House Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Published: Monday, February 8th, 2021 @ 9:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State lawmakers are trying again to eliminate the use of hand-held cellphones by operators of motor vehicles.
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2021 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In yet another sign of turmoil at the N.C. Division of Employment Security, officials announced this week the division overpaid more than $69 million in unemployment benefits last year.
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2021 @ 1:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The bass-playing younger brother of cultural icon Dolly Parton died of cancer, according to a statement from the Parton family.
Published: Sunday, January 24th, 2021 @ 5:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former State Board of Elections Chairman Josh Howard says there could be dire consequences for future elections if the governor is allowed to appoint a judge to a newly created Wake County District Court seat.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2021 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis narrowly won reelection against Cal Cunningham, the two candidates had collectively spent $78 million.
Published: Sunday, December 13th, 2020 @ 11:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2020 election is over. Thankfully and finally.
Published: Monday, December 7th, 2020 @ 7:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If the Republican Party were only the party of white men, it would never win an election.
Published: Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 @ 11:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic judicial candidate Tim Gunther is disqualified from election after admitting to the Wake County Board of Elections he violated state law.
Published: Sunday, November 29th, 2020 @ 6:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Over the course of 34 years penning a column on North Carolina politics and public policy, I’ve seen it all.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Boots on the ground are worth more than a dollar.
Published: Monday, November 9th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There are about 300,000 fewer jobs in North Carolina today than there were in February, before the start of the COVID-19 recession.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 2:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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J.D. Wooten, Democratic candidate for N.C. Senate District 24, faces an ethics complaint for failing to disclose rental income.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 3:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.”
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Tim Gunther, a lawyer and Wake County District Court Judge candidate, appears to be running from a district where he doesn’t live.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 2:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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