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: Grim milestone: North Carolina had its first deaths from COVID-19. A Cabarrus County resident died from complications associated…
Responding to the coronavirus outbreak, at 5 p.m. Friday, March 27, more than a million more North Carolinians face a stay at home order, issued Thursday afternoon by the Wake County Board of Commissioners. Aside from unincorporated sections of Durham County,…
With K-12 schools across the state closed until May 15, lawmakers and education officials are working to ensure students are still able to get an education and that school employees are paid. The education working group of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 met virtually Thursday,…
Hospital leaders are sharing concerns about protective equipment and lower revenue as lawmakers look for ways to help the health care system fight COVID-19. The health care working group of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 met for the first time virtually Thursday, March 26. Lawmakers…
North Carolinians laid off as a result of the coronavirus outbreak could receive benefits as early as Monday, March 30. A spokesman for the Division of Employment Security told Carolina Journal that moves by the Cooper administration streamlining the benefit process will…
As a handful of North Carolina counties order residents to stay home, and State Treasurer Dale Folwell tests positive for coronavirus, Gov. Roy Cooper says he’s prepared for anything. But he’s not issuing a statewide order to shelter in place. Yet. …
Wake County is temporarily suspending all pistol permit and concealed-carry services until April 30, and a pair of Republican lawmakers immediately raised red flags. Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker, who announced the move Tuesday, March 24, said law officials are suspending the services to help…
Gov. Roy Cooper announced a slew of new restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19. He stopped short of issuing an order to shelter in place during a news conference Monday, March 23, though industry leaders worry one could be forthcoming. They hope he considers the…
North Carolina has moved into the next phase of its COVID-19 outbreak — community transmission. But state leaders say they’re not currently planning to order residents to shelter in place. Shelter-in-place, now enacted — as of this writing — in California,…
Registered Democrats are more likely to worry about the coronavirus than are Republicans, a new poll from the right-leaning Civitas Institute shows. Harper Polling, on behalf of Civitas Institute, surveyed 500 likely state voters March 15-17. The margin of error is…
