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The N.C. Revenue Department accuses tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris of misreading state law in a legal dispute over an $8.7 million tax bill. The dispute sits with the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 4:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A former powerful N.C. House Rules Committee chairman urges the N.C. Court of Appeals to allow him to pursue a political discrimination claim against the state agency that fired him last year.
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 @ 9:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) officially appointed three new members, who will serve four-year terms, and selected a new chairman.
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 9:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a meeting scheduled for Wednesday at noon, the State Board of Elections is expected to swear in three new members for four-year terms and elect a chairman.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 5:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday morning, Republican leaders announced that Rep. Tricia Cotham, a longtime Democrat from Mecklenburg County, is joining the North Carolina Republican Party.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 2:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris is taking a dispute over $7.2 million in state tax credits to the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 8:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina would face a new limit on state government spending growth under the Taxpayer Protection Act legislation filed Monday in the N.C. House.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday Nov. 7, U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of North Carolina federal court Michael Easley announced that an assistant U.S. Attorney, Susan Menzer, would serve as a district election officer (DEO).
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 12:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. State Budget Director Charlie Perusse will retire Nov. 1 after serving in the role for Democratic Governors Mike Easley, Bev Perdue, and now Roy Cooper. Cooper announced on Monday that Perusse’s successor will be Deputy Budget Director Kristin Walker, who has served in her role since 2017.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 10:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, Gov. Roy Cooper and nine other Southern Democrat governors, present and past, signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief in support of UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard in a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding their “race-conscious admissions” policies.
Published: Sunday, August 7th, 2022 @ 8:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper along with current Governor John Bel Edwards (LA) and former Governors submitted an amicus brief in support of UNC in the United States Supreme Court cases challenging the consideration of race in college admissions at UNC and Harvard.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 12:27 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A unanimous N.C. Supreme Court has sided with Attorney General Josh Stein in a battle over money flowing to state government from a legal settlement between the state and hog operation Smithfield Foods.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 6:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On major issues, such as local governing transparency among many others, "bipartisan" "Republicans" Frankie Waters and John Rebholz join the Democratic Socialists.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina, like the nation, has a political history which can be likened to a huge pendulum.
Published: Thursday, December 16th, 2021 @ 7:06 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A Wake County Superior Court Judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that was filed against the state’s election redistricting process. The suit alleged that the General Assembly violated previous court precedents governing how election maps should be drawn.
Published: Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A controversial environmental program controlled by North Carolina’s attorney general and funded by hog farm proceeds returned today to the N.C. Supreme Court. The court must decide whether the AG can maintain control of the funding moving forward.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 3:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield, N.C.-1, a Democrat, has officially announced he’ll retire at the end of this term in Congress. Originally from Wilson, Butterfield, 74, has served in Congress since 2004.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 8:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dallas Woodhouse describes what he was doing on 9/11.
Published: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 7:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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District Attorney Scott Thomas, who served more than six years in the General Assembly as a Democrat in first the House and the Senate from 1999-2006, has left the Democrat party and become a Republican.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 4:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A split 2-1 panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a case involving the proposed use of Yadkin River dams. The same dams once generated a long-running legal dispute involving state government.
Published: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 3:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed more legislation than all other North Carolina governors combined.
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 6:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In an unprecedented move, N.C. Senate leaders say they won’t confirm Dionne Delli-Gatti
Published: Sunday, June 6th, 2021 @ 11:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina remains vulnerable to fuel shortages because it’s too reliant on a pair of pipelines for gas and energy, industry leaders and experts told lawmakers.
Published: Thursday, May 27th, 2021 @ 2:25 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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The N.C. attorney general can’t keep and distribute money from a settlement over hog waste that leaked and overflowed from lagoons.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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From the end of the Civil War through much of the 20th century, North Carolina effectively was a one-party state: Democratic.
Published: Sunday, November 29th, 2020 @ 12:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In 2020, North Carolina Republicans and Democrats took their respective cases to the public.
Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 @ 10:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s installed solar power is second only to California’s.
Published: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 @ 8:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor wins his legal battle with the Democratic governor, a leading voice within the state’s political Left might deserve a bit of credit.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2020 @ 8:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The end of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline shuts the door on one example of Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive overreach.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2020 @ 4:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Education activists and Democratic lawmakers want to spend more on education, even as the state faces a massive budget shortfall and is entering a potentially disastrous hurricane season.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 6:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While much of North Carolina has shut down for business, the N.C. Supreme Court continues to issue opinions.
Published: Monday, April 20th, 2020 @ 3:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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