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NC lawmakers debate $10 strip club fee amid 1st Amendment concerns
NC lawmakers consider a $10 fee on strip clubs serving alcohol, sparking debate over sexual assault funding and First Amendment rights.
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Social media, AI safety bill advances in NC Senate
Social media bill is quickly advancing through the General Assembly, Democrats say it may not go far enough.
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UNC uses bridge funds for DEI-targeted research
The federal ban, and a new UNC Board of Governors policy emphasizing free speech and nondiscrimination, have not ended research targeted by the Trump administration for promoting left-wing racial and gender ideology.
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Senate Republicans pass right-to-work amendment
Senate Bill 1082 would ask voters to cement NC’s long-standing right-to-work protections in the state constitution on the 2026 ballot.
Opinion
Why is Carolina Journal banned on Canadian Facebook?
All news is banned on Canada's Facebook and Instagram because of our northern neighbor's “Online News Act,” billed as a way to “save journalism” by forcing platforms to pay selected news companies for links or shared content.
Opinion
NC HALO law would protect 1st responders and 1st Amendment
HALO laws create a mandatory a buffer (often 25 feet) around active first-responder operations, with legal penalties for individuals who refuse a warning and interfere.
Opinion
Supreme Court was right to protect donor privacy, and NC was ready
This decision is good news for every organization that has ever stood in government’s crosshairs for holding the “wrong” views. And it is good news for every North Carolinian who has ever written a check to a cause worth fighting for.
Opinion
How UNC silenced satire and the Daily Tar Heel
The articles may have been a bit out of touch, yes — but many of them were also really funny. And more importantly, students on campus should have the latitude to make clumsy jokes.
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NC home to key figures in renewed religious freedom debate
Although the debate is national in scope, NC has become an unexpected focal point, with figures like Greear, Wolfe, and Spangler reflecting an ongoing divide within American conservatism over the role religion should play in public life.
Opinion
This time it was personal: Cooper and the left’s dangerous vitriol
Cooper isn’t alone this week in taking heat for language that may be intended (by some) as political urgency but can take on a different weight when faced with real-world violence.
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NC Senate committee revives stalled social media bill for minors
The NC Senate Education/Higher Education Committee voted April 29 to advance House Bill 301, the Social Media Protections for Minors Under 16 Act, reviving a measure that passed the House 106-6 last May but stalled in the Senate. The committee also adopted an AI-in-schools amendment and heard testimony from a Meta attorney backing the bill while pushing to shift age verification onto Apple and Google's app stores.
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Locke CEO praises SCOTUS ruling upholding donor privacy
The head of the John Locke Foundation praised the nation’s highest court Wednesday for its unanimous decision in a donor privacy case from New Jersey.
