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A five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina's voter ID and tax cap state constitutional amendments will head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The old proverb states that April showers bring May Flowers. So, what does August heat bring? Answer: Huge electric bills. My July bill was so high I was convinced my meter was broken and called to get a service person to my house.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 8:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A Guilford County mother is asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to revive her lawsuit against the Guilford school board and Old North State Medical Society. She blames the defendants for the forced COVID vaccination of her teenage son.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A high school volleyball star who suffered gruesome injuries when a boy posing as a girl violently spiked the ball in her face told North Carolina state lawmakers Wednesday the state needs legislation barring biological males from competing against girls.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 12:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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There are 761 Golden LEAF Scholars currently attending North Carolina colleges and universities across the state. Over the last few months, we have had the opportunity to visit with more than 170 of them at on campus gatherings hosted by their college chancellor
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 @ 12:36 am
By: ENC NOW
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As liberal elements attempted to rename State College to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh in 19 and 63, landed freemen of the Old North State did the Quantrill and revolted against the woke order of the day.
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 12:23 am
By: The Correspondent
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The "Old North State" celebrates its 233rd Birthday.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 8:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Older adults and people with disabilities can now apply for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Energy Assistance Program. The state began accepting applications from this group of residents on Dec. 1.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 10:12 am
By: ENC NOW
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After a contentious Republican primary, 26-year-old freshman Congressman Madison Cawthorn, who represents the far west of North Carolina, was defeated in his bid for re-election by state Sen. Chuck Edwards.
Published: Saturday, May 21st, 2022 @ 8:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper continues to hold up progress on North Carolina’s state budget – holding it hostage over liberal Medicaid expansion with no guarantee of continued federal dollars.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 7:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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2019 was only four days old when we got the announcement the U.S. Supreme Court was going to hear arguments on North Carolina's redistricting lawsuit in March. Once again, our state will be in the political spotlight.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 3:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A divided U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Ohio’s method of removing inactive voters from election registration rolls shouldn’t affect North Carolina’s maintenance of voting records too much, a spokesman for the state elections board says
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Raleigh attorney Gene Boyce told Carolina Journal that his efforts to get the courts to rule on a dispute he is having with the North Carolina State Bar, the state agency that regulates attorneys, is important because it has implications for other licensing boards and the occupations they regulate.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the 2016 general election unfolds in North Carolina, you should expect to hear a lot about how the state's economy has fared under Republican governance in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 2:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court today put on hold the Obama administration's federal power plan that would increase North Carolina power bills by an estimated 22 percent and threaten economic growth. Today's ruling sends a strong signal that the petitioning states, which include North Carolina, will...
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 4:30 am
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina was recognized as one of the nation's leading tech states by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation during a press conference today in the Old House Chamber of the North Carolina State Capitol.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 1:37 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Recently I was thumbing through my copy of Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, an anthology of collected essays by noted historian H. G. Jones. (He wrote a weekly column from 1969-1986.) The editors Randell Jones and Caitlin Jones, unrelated to the history columnist, write that...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 11:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid the uncertainty of state budget negotiations, one fact still holds: North Carolina's corporate tax rates will continue to drop, and those cuts will improve the state's standing in an index from the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C., ranking state business climates.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For many of us, Labor Day signifies the last day of summer. For local governments, it is the day property tax bills are sent to millions of citizens. Property taxes are one of the oldest forms of taxation in North Carolina and were used through the 1930s as a joint tax by state and local...
Published: Saturday, September 6th, 2014 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the landing of English settlers off the coast of what is now North Carolina, midwifery has been practiced.
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Egged on by Kay Hagan — our senior US senator who also, BTW, happens to be Chuck Schumer’s sock puppet — Barry Obama has dispatched his attorney general Eric Holder to sue North Carolina over its new law requiring photo ID to vote in the state’s elections.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 @ 5:34 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Dr. Ben Carson, a rising star in conservative circles, told a crowd gathered in North Carolina's capital city Thursday that government in the United States is...
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Life, the old saying goes, is best thought of as a journey, not a destination. When it comes to reforming North Carolina's tax code, however, I'd say the reverse is true. The journey may have been messy over the past few months, as state lawmakers and policy analysts pitched and debated various...
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What's been bouncing around the political gossip network for a few years has FINALLY made it to the pages of The N&O. The NCGOP establishment bent over backwards to force the highly-dubious Debra Goldman on the electorate.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 @ 2:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Debra Goldman, Repubican nominee for State Auditor and Wake County School Board Member, was honored to be a featured speaker at the Paul Ryan victory rally at the Raleigh headquaters of the sheet metal fabrication company SMT.
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 7:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican Greg Dority filed for the NC State Auditor race today. Dority, a retired security consultant from Washington, NC currently serves as Beaufort County GOP Chairman and is a former vice-chairman of the Republican First Congressional District.
Published: Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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