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The Raleigh News & Observer clarifies why stepping away from the Electronic Registration Information Center is a good idea.
Published: Thursday, June 15th, 2023 @ 7:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 3:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last week, the News & Observer and EdNC published articles about a modification to the principal compensation system included in this year’s state budget.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper had an op-ed published today in the Raleigh News & Observer calling out the hospital lobby as an obstacle to Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last month, the Raleigh News & Observer laid out a series of articles questioning conservative leadership at the University of North Carolina System and General Assembly.
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bombshell story printed in today’s News & Observer and Charlotte Observer detailed Congressman Ted Budd’s history of “friendly toward Russia” votes, one day after he was roundly criticized for refusing to condemn Vladimir Putin as he launches a deadly invasion of Ukraine.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In case you missed it, the Raleigh News & Observer reported that North Carolina is experiencing unprecedented police shortages. Chief John C. Tippett of the Scotland Neck Police Department says “ Ain’t nobody beatin’ the doors down to be the ‘PO-lice’ this day and time,”
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 8:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recent op-eds and editorials from the News & Observer have lambasted the state legislature’s plan to use a budget surplus to cut taxes.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The News & Observer reported today that former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Cheri Beasley will likely be running for the Richard Burr’s Senate seat.
Published: Thursday, March 25th, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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About halfway down page 5 in this morning’s News & Observer, we learn that the newspaper has settled a decade-old libel dispute.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News & Observer of Raleigh last week scribbled an unsigned editorial that’s splattered with broken reasoning and is unapologetic in its pandering.
Published: Saturday, August 1st, 2020 @ 4:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, May 18, the opinion team for The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer called for Gov. Roy Cooper to take responsibility for North Carolina’s disastrous unemployment insurance system.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 5:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A January 27 article in the News & Observer announced that a bill to make North Carolina a license state for selling liquor is unlikely to receive a vote this year.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News & Observer’s Ned Barnett recently wrote an editorial in which he stated that North Carolina may soon be in for a sudden lurch to the left like the one Virginia is currently experiencing.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2020 @ 5:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A recent News & Observer editorial on redistricting claimed that “the numbers (of districts likely to be won by either Republicans or Democrats) are irrelevant if the redistricting process remains — as it has — purely partisan.”
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N&O this weekend published an editorial declaring that North Carolina’s corporate income tax cuts are “not working.”
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 4:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I'm not surprised that the editors of the News & Observer blame the N.C. General Assembly for the migration of students from districts to charter, home, and private schools.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News and Observer has stooped to an all new low. While we have become accustomed to their slanted and biased articles, 'reporting' information fed to them by a far-left George Soros-run organization is unconscionable.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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And the Raleigh News & Observer wasn't alone. "School safety panel calls for resource officers in every NC school," according to WRAL.com.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2019 @ 10:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Journalists aren't the only ones who should learn a lesson from the Raleigh News & Observer's recent loss in a multimillion-dollar libel case.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 7:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week the News & Observer reported that Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) grew by a mere 42 students
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 2:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Rob Christensen, the venerable political reporter for the News & Observer, offers a future vision of North Carolina as Illinois, with out-of-control spending leading to failing government and bad credit
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 5:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a News & Observer article last week, a faculty member expressed concerns about UNC-Chapel Hill being “overwhelmingly liberal.”
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2018 @ 2:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The News & Observer recently ran an op-ed from Froma Harrop arguing that renewable energy has become competitive with traditional energy resources
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Of all the disturbing things emerging out of the News & Observer’s week-long screed against charter schools, few are as head-shaking as Tom Benton’s quote about parental choice
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 @ 12:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last week the News & Observer reported on how Durham Public Schools (DPS) is debating a proposal to build 24 one and two bedroom apartments and then rent them to teachers at below market rates
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 3:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Those are the words of former UNC Law School Dean Judith Wegner who spoke to a reporter from the (Raleigh) News & Observer in May about her opposition to a proposed UNC Board of Governors resolution to prohibit UNC Centers and Institutes from participating in litigation.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 5:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N&O today lauded the announcement by Infosys that the Indian tech company is planning to open up a new technology hub in Wake County
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 11:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer have offered up a wonderful example of the power of free and independent thought
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today’s N&O features this ridiculous editorial lambasting the NC General Assembly for being too financially responsible
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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True, longtime Raleigh News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen might have written his latest piece before reading last week’s Carolina Journal Daily Journal on recent progressive changes to North Carolina’s personal income tax
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent issue of Raleigh’s News & Observer featured an opinion-page piece titled “Keep politics off the bench.” It started with one of the silliest declarations one could find in an op-ed attempting to make a serious argument
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 @ 5:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's flattering when the executive editor of the News & Observer calls to ask if he could meet me to discuss a column I'd written
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This past Sunday, editors at the News & Observer ran Tell the truth on NC school funding. Not surprisingly, the N&O gives their side of school funding.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 3:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Tuesday's edition of the Raleigh News & Observer included a fact-free editorial by a staffer of the George Soros-funded Budget & Tax Center - a project of the NC Justice Center.
Published: Saturday, October 29th, 2016 @ 12:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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According to a front-page story in today's News & Observer, Deborah Ross frequently touts the votes she took in support of historical preservation tax credits during her career in the legislature.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 5:32 am
By: jonah
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According to a front-page story in today's News & Observer, Deborah Ross frequently touts the votes she took in support of historical preservation tax credits during her career in the legislature.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 4:33 am
By: jonah
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Amendment lawyer Bussian suggests case against N&O actually sought to block critical coverage of crime lab's failures.
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2016 @ 3:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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