The Western North Carolina quartz mine upon which the chip industry apparently relies on in Helene-impacted Spruce Pine, North Carolina, says their facilities only received minor damage and they hope to resume deliveries of final product stock soon. “Recovery efforts in the areas around our operations impacted by Hurricane Helene have made significant progress,” the...
If you fell for a few of these bizarre theories, don't feel bad. It happens to the best of us. Use it as a lesson on how to find better sources of information during the next major event.
Late Thursday night the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) agreed to suspend their strike until January 15 to allow time for negotiating a new Master Contract with the US Maritime Alliance (UMX). The tentative deal was reportedly struck upon ILA’s acceptance of a wage increase counteroffer from UMX, representing a 61% increase over six years. No...
This week on the Debrief, the latest in rescue and recovery from Hurricane Helene, including how the North Carolina State Board of Elections will handle the upcoming election in WNC. A hearing is scheduled in Republican’s lawsuit over thousands of voter registrations that they argue violate federal election law. Plus, North Carolina ports stop work...
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has risen as of Wednesday morning to more than 200 deaths, 97 of them in North Carolina. As those hardest hit by the storm figure out how piece their businesses and lives back together, the Biden administration has some bad news: FEMA is going to run out of money after Helene.
The NC Ports Board of Directors may be in direct conflict with that mission, some lawmakers argue, as a member of that board appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper, is also a local union president who happens to be leading picket lines with striking dock workers in Wilmington.
On Thursday, former congressman Mark Walker proposed using the unoccupied Influx Care Facility (ICF) in Greensboro, leased by the federal government to house illegal immigrant minors, as a shelter for victims of Helene, instead.
North Carolina bar owners suing Gov. Roy Cooper over his decision to keep bars closed during the COVID-19 pandemic made the case this week for compensation from the state. The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 23 in NC Bar and Tavern Association v. Cooper. It’s one of two cases at the state’s highest court that day pitting the governor against bar owners.
The Watauga County Board of Elections has notified North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) officials that the election will go on in the county despite the aftermath left behind by Hurricane Helene.
North Carolina is projected to rank No. 12 in the nation for the largest economic loss under Kamala Harris’ proposed corporate tax increase, according to a new report from the Tax Foundation.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s response to a CNN report about objectionable online comments. Kokai offered these remarks during the Sept. 27, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
I got it wrong. Deeply wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. It was a few days after Hurricane Floyd struck the coast on September 16, 1999. I’d been covering North Carolina politics for more than a dozen years by then, penning my syndicated column and appearing regularly on radio and television. Our discussion program “N.C. Spin” had debuted...
Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller updated media Sunday evening to say that there are 30 confirmed deaths from Hurricane Helene, a number that is rising as rescue and recovery units get to areas of Western North Carolina that had been cut off by collapsed roads and mudslides.
Those who know for a fact that they have secrets of this magnitude may begin to self-select out of the process in the age of the internet. Others may just hope it never comes up or assume they can ride out any controversy.
Gov. Cooper’s flawed logic on choice in education
The uplifting human response to the hell of Helene
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More than forty million members of Generation Z will be eligible to vote in the 2024 election. This generation has higher rates of voting than previous ones did when they were young adults.
A sleeper issue this year could have a potentially decisive impact on the way the election goes, including right here in North Carolina—the way men will end up voting.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was in Wilkes County Monday, back on the campaign trail after a weekend of resignations among staff and a CNN report late last week alleging he made inflammatory posts on porn websites more than a decade ago.
In less than one week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the North Carolina GOP (NCGOP) are once again suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE).
