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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While construction on its $4 billion plant is underway in Chatham County, Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast began trading on the Nasdaq Tuesday as Black Spade Acquisition Company shareholders agreed to approve the merger with VinFast Thursday.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 11:14 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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VinFast is scheduled to break ground on its $4 billion EV production plant in Moncure, Chatham County next week.
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast continues to produce a mixed bag of news.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured Moncure School in Chatham County and delivered supplies collected from the Governor’s School Supply Drive.
Published: Thursday, September 7th, 2023 @ 9:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously against plaintiffs challenging removal of a Confederate monument from the Chatham County Courthouse property.
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2023 @ 7:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"This is proof positive that North Carolina politicians and bureaucrats are prepared to trample on the rights of private property owners in order to benefit favored business interests,” said Jon Guze, Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the John Locke Foundation.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Plans to build electric vehicles at a proposed EV production plant in Chatham County have hit another pothole. Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast announced Friday that it will push off production until 2025.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Vietnamese electric vehicle maker with plans to build a production plant in Chatham County may be in trouble after announcing it is cutting 80 jobs in the U.S., including its chief financial officer, all before delivering its first vehicle.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A parent in Chatham County is claiming that a local public school teacher “bullied” his daughter for her Christian faith.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 7:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Semiconductor company will create 1,800 new jobs at the Chatham-Siler Advanced Manufacturing Site
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 11:01 am
By: Governor's Office
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Two Chatham County communities will soon be without twenty-seven homes, five businesses, and one church because the state of North Carolina is exercising its eminent domain powers to make way for VinFast, a startup Vietnamese auto company.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Company to create 7,500 jobs at Chatham County’s Triangle Innovation Point Megasite
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:38 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper has appointed Joal Broun to serve as District Court Judge in Judicial District 15B, serving Chatham and Orange counties.
Published: Sunday, June 27th, 2021 @ 8:51 am
By: Governor's Office
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Walter Harris, chairman of the Chatham County Alcoholic Beverage Control board, told WUNC’s Frank Stasio he’s been told North Carolina is among the country’s best at selling hard liquor.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2019 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House District 37 (covers southern Wake County bordering Johnston, Harnett, and Chatham counties.)
Published: Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Drunks don't always make the most cooperative suspects. But it's not clear how aggressively police can pursue evidence, such as blood samples, when they apprehend a suspect who's suspected of driving while intoxicated. And a recent ruling by the state Court of Appeals hasn't settled the matter.
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2014 @ 9:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chests are being thumped defiantly at Low-T headquarters on Raleigh's Jones Street. The McClatchy drive-bys are convinced that they have found Gov. Pat McCrory's Watergate.
Published: Monday, August 18th, 2014 @ 10:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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For a long time, Chatham County has been an overflow containment area for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd
Published: Saturday, July 26th, 2014 @ 10:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Following a report from Duke Energy filed late today that a crack has formed in an earthen dam that's part of a coal ash impoundment at the Cape Fear Steam Electric Station in Chatham County, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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To the disappointment of many conservatives in The Second Congressional District, The State of North Carolina, and the nation, Chatham County GOP chairman Jim Duncan is taking a pass on a run for Congress in 2014.
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 3:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I spoke with a well-placed Tea Party activist based in The Second Congressional District who confirmed for me what has been one of the region's worst kept secrets for some time: Renee Ellmers is getting a primary opponent.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that financial assistance is available for survivors who suffered damages from the severe thunderstorms and flash flooding that struck Orange and adjoining counties June 30.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 9:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My diligent efforts to bring you the best intelligence and insight into Carolina politics put me into contact with a diverse array of people from across our two states.
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 2:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Facing a multi-billion dollar budget deficit in 2011, the state legislature reduced and eliminated a variety of programs in order to balance the budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 9:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The presence of natural gas in shale rock formations, such as in the Deep River Basin in Lee, Chatham, and Moore counties, has long been known. Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a process to extract natural gas from shale, has been around since the 1940s but has been cost-prohibitive.
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 10:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2010 election saw a major turnaround in the makeup of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners. In a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1, Republicans ousted three Democratic incumbents on the five-member board with promises to save taxpayers $2 million over four years.
Published: Friday, August 17th, 2012 @ 10:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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