When Hurricane Florence battered North Carolina, vaccines spoiled in Lee Ann Amann’s clinic and across the coastline. Without a reliable generator, her clinic shut down and lost tens of thousands of dollars. But after receiving a $50,000 grant, Amann plans to buy a generator to power…
Free speech is in trouble on college campuses. Social justice indoctrination is to blame. Speakers at a Friday, Dec. 6, panel in Raleigh issued this warning about the impact social justice advocacy has had in higher education. The James G. Martin Center for Academic…
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review: Tucker out: Garland Tucker III will no longer challenge U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis,…
Here at three takeaways from the 2019-20 session of General Assembly, which ended in November and will resume Jan. 14. Politics over policy and common courtesy I remember the days when members dined together, had meaningful personal conversations, attended community events…
“It’s a media-mad world.” This was a tagline from a parenting book I co-authored — eight years ago. Now, kids aren’t just mad for media in their world; media is their world. That’s the takeaway from a new survey of nearly 1,700…
A new N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation report shows Republican lawmakers scored an average of 91.95% on business-related decisions during the 2019 legislative session. Democrats averaged 57.9%, and the General Assembly as a whole averaged 77.15%. NCFREE based its 2019 ratings on…
When her teenage son collapsed in a seizure, it hit High Point mother Kelly Kinard. Luka was addicted. He was vaping the equivalent of 80 cigarettes per day, and it took sending him to rehab in California to get him to stop. “We see our kid’s…
North Carolina just earned its 12th green-light rating for campus free speech. Fayetteville State University, a constituent of the University of North Carolina System, has revised seven restrictive speech policies, earning accolades for First Amendment protections from the Foundation for Individual Rights in…
The times have a fin de siècle feel for small-government conservatives. The Republican Party is now “owned” by Donald Trump who, in his first year, increased government expenditures by 86% over the last budget proposed by George W. Bush in 2008. The self-professed “king of debt” requested…
Thousands of distillers, brewers, and vintners across the country, are worried. Probably rightfully so. It’s not onerous state rules or continued noise from prohibitionists that worries them. Those are certainly deep concerns, but not necessarily in this moment. The target of their…
