Editors note: This story will be updated as additional reports become available. Carolina Journal recently reported on the second quarter federal fundraising numbers for declared U.S. Senate candidates in North Carolina. But the U.S. Senate race is just one of three big prizes up for grabs in North…
Rep. Jerry Carter, who died this week. State Rep. Jerry Carter, 66, a Rockingham County minister and chaplain with the State Highway Patrol, died Tuesday morning. In his second term in the North Carolina House, Carter has represented most of Rockingham County, north of Greensboro, since 2019. His…
The general counsel to Gov. Roy Cooper is returning to private practice. William Crum McKinney worked with Cooper for nearly five years, and before that was special counsel to Cooper when he was N.C. attorney general. McKinney returns to his previous firm, Haynsworth…
State auditors found Roanoke-Chowan Community College issued more than $10.3 million in checks with invalid signatures between August 2019 and August 2020, putting the school at increased risk of fraud. A report released Friday by the Office of State Auditor Beth Wood said…
Update: On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, The Wake County School Board voted unanimously to require masks for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students for the Fall 2021 semester regardless of vaccine status. Given the freedom to choose whether to mandate masks for students, school boards across the state have begun…
A new report is shedding light on the academic, social, and mental-health damage caused by school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A McKinsey & Co. report released Tuesday, July 27, examined test scores for 1.6 million elementary school students across 40 states…
President Biden is expected to announce Thursday, July 29, that all federal employees must be vaccinated or submit to rigorous COVID testing. That would include members of the military. The White House Office and Management already announced an employee mask mandate in all federal buildings. The announcement would come the…
Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature. The N.C. Senate on June 25 approved its budget proposal, supported by all Republicans…
The N.C. House unanimously passed a bill Monday to allow mental health counselors to work across state lines. Aimed at increasing public access to professional counseling services, House Bill 791, Licensed Counselors Interstate Compact, would enter North Carolina into an agreement with member states allowing a counselor’s license from…
The N.C. Senate has approved a final deal with the House for a bill to defer certain ABC renewal fees. Negotiations over a final version of the bill stretched out over three months. Under the terms of the deal, ABC permit holders could wait…
