Alamance County commissioners filed paperwork with the state’s second-highest court this week defending their decision not to remove a Confederate monument from the county courthouse property in Graham in 2020. The North Carolina Court of Appeals is considering a challenge to that decision from plaintiffs led by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP.
In the Pines, a John Locke Foundation-produced short film based on the 1898 insurrection that toppled Wilmington’s elected local government, recently won Best Film and two other awards at the Golden Hour Film Festival in Morganton. In addition to Best Film, Pandora Broadwater won Best Actress for her role as an older version of protagonist...
A House bill requiring North Carolina public schools to teach students a unit on the Civil Rights Movement has found widespread bipartisan support among state legislators.
North Carolina’s constitution has protected people’s rights to the “enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor” for more than 150 years. But the state’s highest court continues to wrestle with the form that protection should take. That was a key message in N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr.’s May 10 presentation to the Bastiat Society of Raleigh.
On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill requiring students at state universities to take a three-credit hour course on the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents by a vote of 69-47.
A paper mill, which has been operating for more than 100 years and is integral to the economy of Canton, is slated to close by June 2023. This will force around 1,300 workers currently employed at the mill to seek new jobs.
Matthew Continetti, senior fellow and Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute, authored the book “The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism.” Continetti discussed the history of American conservatism and the outlook for its future with Carolina Journal. He delivers the annual John W. Pope Lecture at...
