Steve Pinkerton is a business owner who now does little business. He isn’t unique because of that, and he gets it. This pandemic and the ensuing shutdowns and lockdowns have taken much. Pinkerton owns Vitality Fitness in Concord, in a 50,000-square-foot facility he…
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” discusses people who report their neighbors to authorities because of concerns about “social distancing.” Contact Amy at [email protected] Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC and https://twitter.com/TheRightAOC.
Gary Salamido, president of the NC Chamber, is the lone business representative on Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 task force. The lack of private-sector representation is a problem, says Jon Sanders, director of regulatory studies at the…
The protest was larger, the signs more prevalent. A form of detente established between police and demonstrators. The second ReopenNC protest in Raleigh on Tuesday, April 21, while boisterous, felt much calmer than the first. Motorcycle officers from the Raleigh Police Department escorted several hundred demonstrators…
Gov. Roy Cooper told the grassroots group ReopenNC on Monday, April 20, that recent executive orders and local ordinances limiting “mass gatherings” shouldn’t interfere with North Carolinians’ right to protest, worship, or exercise other First Amendment liberties. The lawyer representing ReopenNC told Carolina Journal…
The grassroots group ReopenNC has asked Gov. Roy Cooper and the chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners to clarify COVID-19-related emergency orders, claiming they violate constitutional rights of free assembly and free exercise of religion. ReopenNC, which started as a Facebook group in early…
It’s irresponsible of some politicians to use faith to lure people into endangering themselves, their family, and their own congregation, Gov. Roy Cooper said during a Friday, April 17, news conference. Cooper didn’t name names, but Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, is among those who have…
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: Coronavirus worries: A little more than 70% of North Carolinians are concerned about catching COVID-19, a Civitas Institute…
“Today, I want to tell North Carolinians that in order to ease restrictions we need to make progress in three areas: testing, tracing, and trends,” Gov. Roy Cooper said during his Wednesday, April 15, news conference. At least one more “T” was missing from…
N.C. Sen. Jim Perry, R-Lenoir, has reached out to Gov. Roy Cooper in defense of a pastor who calls the governor’s stay-at-home order discriminatory against churches and houses of worship. The pastor, who worships in Perry’s…
