The N.C. Sheriffs’ Association is not taking the recent violence against deputies across the state lying down. After a seventh deputy was killed or injured by gunfire in a three-week period, they are offering an $100,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of a murdered Wake County deputy. “We are saddened and horrified...
A court case involving a Clemmons zoning dispute reminds us about the importance of property rights.
A Durham police sergeant fired after he allowed a suspect to smoke a marijuana blunt has filed new paperwork with the N.C. Supreme Court. The sergeant reminds the court that his controversial action helped end an armed standoff.
An election protest filed by Republican state Senate candidate Bobby Hanig alleges that his opponent, Democrat Valerie Jordan, doesn’t actually live in District 3, where they are running for office. After an investigation, Hanig officially filed a protest Monday to request that officials examine records that include her tax filings and Amazon Prime deliveries. Filed with...
The latest chapter in N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s feud with state hospitals involves a new friend-of-the-court brief at the state Supreme Court. Folwell supports a New Bern eye surgeon’s challenge of state certificate-of-need restrictions.
An eye surgeon in New Bern is asking the N.C. Supreme Court to take up his challenge against the state’s certificate-of-need law. He argues CON restrictions violate his state constitutional rights. Dr. Jay Singleton’s latest appeal follows the N.C. Court of Appeals’ unanimous June 21 decision dismissing his case. The John Locke Foundation, which oversees...
U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, a Democrat representing the Triad area of North Carolina, is once again in the news for her stock trading, after making investments in chip companies the day before the July 28 U.S. House vote on the CHIPS Act.
Are nonprofit hospitals profiting in the name of charity care?
Big tent for me but not for thee: Cooper’s Democratic Party
Prejudice makes us all worse off
he final step in the N.C. Green Party's journey to be on the state's 2022 ballots may be in sight, as Judge James Dever, the federal judge overseeing the NCGP's lawsuit against the N.C. State Board of Elections, released an order Monday signaling the case was made "moot" by the NCSBE's decision to certify the Greens as a party.
After a long back-and-forth battle on whether there were enough valid signatures on the N.C. Green Party's petition to become a recognized party in the 2022 midterms, the N.C. Board of Elections determined that, while there was some fraud by certain collectors, the fraudulent signatures were not enough to push the Green Party below the number of signatures needed.
Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker lost Tuesday to challenger Willie Rowe in a runoff for the Democrat nomination for sheriff of North Carolina's capital city. In the runoff to May's primary election Rowe took 75% of the vote to Baker's 25%.
The North Carolina Green Party had its petition to be recognized as an official party in state elections denied, in a 3-2 party-line vote, at the N.C. State Board of Elections on June 30. But the NCGP is crying foul, alleging the Elias Law Group — a powerful firm used by national Democrats, which was also successful in getting North Carolina's election maps thrown out — used lying, bullying, and harassment to influence the decision.