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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes court ruling striking down voter ID
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses a Superior Court ruling…
Locke’s Mitch Kokai highlights bad poll numbers for Biden
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses poor…
Carolina Journal’s Ray Nothstine ponders whether college football will help end COVID hysteria
Ray Nothstine, Carolina Journal opinion editor, looks…
Locke’s Andy Jackson explains how N.C. redistricting will affect one key county
Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas…
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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes court ruling striking down voter ID
Locke’s Mitch Kokai highlights bad poll numbers for Biden
Carolina Journal’s Ray Nothstine ponders whether college football will help end COVID hysteria
Locke’s Andy Jackson explains how N.C. redistricting will affect one key county
Peter Morcombe touts benefits of small modular reactors for N.C. energy needs
Pacific Legal Foundation’s Jessica Thompson discusses lawsuit challenging Farmville food truck rules
Locke’d and Loaded: Lefty group Oxfam thinks North Carolina is the worst state for workers
Locke’s Mitch Kokai details N.C. Supreme Court controversy involving voter ID case
Carolina Journal’s Ray Nothstine laments Gov. Cooper’s embrace of Critical Race Theory
Locke’s Terry Stoops assesses disturbing developments in Leandro school funding case
Sleepy Joe
Is college football the death knell for COVID hysteria?
The mammoth crowds for college and many NFL games signal that a large chunk of the nation trust the vaccine…
Peter Morcombe touts benefits of small modular reactors for N.C. energy needs
Physicist Peter Morcombe explains why an increased reliance on small modular nuclear reactors, SMRs, would work better for North Carolina…
N.C. hospital suspends hundreds of healthcare workers without pay amid vaccine mandate
Winston-Salem based Novant Health has suspended more than 300 employees effective this week for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Deputy commissioner will help oversee N.C. ABC until governor names new chair
Terrance Merriweather (N.C. ABC website) Terrance Merriweather, deputy commissioner of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission,…
Beach boy
Labor force shouldn’t be shrinking
I have my own views about North Carolina’s labor-market woes, but the first step to debating the issue well is…
NAACP wants felons to vote, while nullifying your ballot
The NAACP is backing an effort to add more than 50,000 felons to North Carolina’s voting rolls. At the same…
Regulatory sandbox bill moving through final hurdles in N.C. Senate
A bill to establish a “regulatory sandbox” by waiving certain obstacles for a trial period for fast-emerging financial…
CJRadio
A weekly, one-hour newsmagazine on North Carolina, Carolina Journal Radio is hosted by Donna Martinez and Mitch Kokai and features a diverse mix of guests and topics. Education reform, tax policy, the state legislature, affirmative action, air pollution, freedom of the press and the courts – these are just a few of the subjects that Carolina Journal Radio has tackled since the program began production in 2003.
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 924: State should take new steps to fight collusive lawsuits
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 923: Cooper, Robinson to offer contrasting N.C. visions
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 922: COVID-19, government lockdowns create special challenges for businesses that sell alcohol
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 921: Chief Justice Newby takes over as top N.C. court official
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 920: Teachers union fights efforts to reopen schools
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 919: Year-end program highlights key issues from 2020
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 918: New index tracks COVID-related ‘misery’
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 917: Looking ahead to North Carolina’s 2022 Senate race
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 916: Truitt to take reins as top N.C. education official
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Carolina Journal Radio No. 915: Returning students to in-person schooling presents urgent challenge
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Pacific Legal Foundation’s Jessica Thompson discusses lawsuit challenging Farmville food truck rules
Jessica Thompson, attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses Ole Time Smokehouse’s lawsuit challenging Farmville Food truck rules. Learn more here: “Food truck owner files court challenge against Farmville regulations.” (Editor’s note: The new rules require a 100-foot buffer between the food truck and a brick-and-mortar restaurant’s property line.)…
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CJ Exclusives
Food truck owner files court challenge against Farmville regulations
An eastern N.C.-based food truck owner is going to court to challenge a steep increase in the cost of doing business in Farmville. Mark Shirley, owner of the Ole Time Smokehouse food truck, filed a lawsuit today in Pitt County Superior Court. It challenges Farmville’s food truck rules as violating…
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CJ Opinion
Lawmakers might need to look past Cooper for limits on emergency powers
If legislative Democrats refuse to restrain the incumbent governor, perhaps it's time to think about 2025.
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Opinion Article
Forgotten men and women: ‘the unvaccinated’ also includes the naturally immune
“The forgotten man” was how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt characterized ordinary people who needed his New Deal policies to build back up the American economy around them. In her history of the Great Depression titled “The Forgotten Man,” author and economics commentator Amity Schlaes showed that the forgotten…
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CJ Exclusives
ABC chairman resigns amid supply issues, problems at warehouse
A.D. Zander Guy Jr. (N.C. ABC website) ABC chairman A.D. Zander Guy Jr. has resigned as chairman of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. ABC spokesman Jeff Strickland confirmed the resignation to Carolina Journal on Monday, Sept. 20. He offered no additional…
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Locke’d and Loaded: Lefty group Oxfam thinks North Carolina is the worst state for workers
North Carolina is an obviously better place to work than D.C., New York, and California. But the leftist group Oxfam (supporters of compulsory unionization) is trying to smear N.C. as the worst place in the United States for workers. But as we show, Oxfam gets the economics completely backwards:…