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VinFast, the electric vehicle maker with plans to open a $4 billion manufacturing plant in Chatham County in 2025, has sold 11,300 vehicles during the first half of 2023.
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 5:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper credited for leading an army of clean-energy companies coming to the state, is being criticized for polluting waterways near its $4 billion EV manufacturing plant in Chatham County.
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The groundbreaking on what is being called the “crown jewel of VinFast’s global expansion” occurred Friday morning at the site of the $4 billion EV manufacturing plant in Triangle Innovation Point, in the Chatham County town of Moncure.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 9:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A church scheduled for demolition to make way for VinFast’s new $4 billion EV plant in Moncure, Chatham County, may be saved after all.
Published: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 @ 5:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As expected, the approaching tropical system continues to develop at a very fast pace. The morning’s update expanded the forecasted impacts into our state and once again increased our expected wind conditions.
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 @ 12:56 am
By: ENC NOW
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Multiple reports out of the U.S. Thursday indicated that Long John Silver's is still a thing. Experts confirmed their findings that the fast-food seafood restaurant, which is an actual thing, is in fact still in existence.
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2023 @ 4:06 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Henry Cavill is out as Superman. No more shall he run faster than a locomotive or leap tall buildings in a single bound. Sad! Still, this is great news for a young actor looking for his big break. So who's going to be the next Superman?
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: Babylon Bee
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President Joe Biden accused the Supreme Court of “playing fast and loose with the facts” in the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last month and return abortion legislation to the states.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 6:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Speaking in an interview with the business magazine Fast Company about his role as chief impact officer with the tech startup BetterUp, which offers coaching and mental health services to businesses and individuals, Great Britain’s Prince Harry, who with his wife Meghan Markle.
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 7:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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Golden LEAF Board of Directors awards $50 million to support North Carolina’s first car manufacturerRecently, Governor Roy Cooper announced that North Carolina has landed its first car manufacturer, VinFast, a Vietnamese electric car manufacturer.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 6:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the help of the Food and Drug Administration, which has fast-tracked the effort, the state of New York is trying out potential treatments for people who have contracted COVID-19.
Published: Sunday, March 29th, 2020 @ 11:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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SynergyLabs, a fast-growing manufacturer of specialty pet products, has selected Burke County as the location for a new company that will create 237 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 @ 9:09 am
By: Governor's Office
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The U.S Environmental Protection Agency must move faster to help states like North Carolina dealing with unregulated chemicals that are causing serious concerns about drinking water, Governor Roy Cooper said today.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 8:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper today pressed for faster action to restore power to Hatteras and Ocracoke islands
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 1:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his steadfast support of veterans and voted for passage of H.R. 1259, the VA Accountability First Act
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 8:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against the Conference Report to H.R. 22, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The 1,000-page bill includes a five-year, $305 billion reauthorization for federal highway and transit programs. The bill would also reauthorize the...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:15 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory commended Congress for heeding calls from the nation's governors and passing the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which will provide States the long-term fiscal certainty Governor McCrory called for during his testimony before the House Committee on...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:46 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are taxpayer-funded accounts established to provide an education for qualified students. While the state oversees the deposit of state funds, parents have discretion over how the funds are spent...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Who does it take for the NC General Assembly to move fast? Apparently lawmakers can act swiftly if they want to legalize hemp, a relative of marijuana, especially when four lobbyists are on the job, and when the son of a political insider stands to benefit.
Published: Friday, October 16th, 2015 @ 3:33 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Technological innovation changes industries. How fast such better ideas take hold often depends on government actions. And while new technologies raise difficult questions, poor economic logic never should be the justification for clamping down on new ideas.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 5:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The plight of the low-wage fast-food worker has been a focus of some political activism lately. The ostensible goal is drumming up support for significantly raising the minimum wage. Sympathy for workers should not, however, lead one into supporting causes that merely seem to address the problem whi
Published: Friday, December 12th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The leader of the state Senate promised fast action to appeal a Wake County Superior Court judge's decision halting the General Assembly's plans to end teacher tenure. Meantime, the head of the state's largest teacher association, which brought the lawsuit challenging the end of career status, was d
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday outlined the goals for his second year in office, which include increasing teacher pay, fast-tracking fracking, and calling on the General Assembly to embrace his wife's top project - enacting puppy mill legislation.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 4:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before Obamacare, before individual mandates, before exchanges, there was Medicaid. Started in 1965 under President Johnson as part of his War on Poverty, Medicaid extended health insurance coverage to low-income Americans.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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