With filing for the 2024 elections in North Carolina officially closed, we now know which legislative seats will be contested and who is running. The full breakdown of candidate filings for the North Carolina Legislature and Congress can be found here.
A recent audit of the Town of Robbinsville by the North Carolina Office of State Auditor (NCOSA) revealed several areas of misconduct, including the violation of the state’s open meetings law, overriding internal policies and laws, and overruling decisions made by town employees, and failing to issue corrected wage and tax statements (W-2) to former town officials and employees.
More than three dozen Raleigh police officers are urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to review a legal dispute involving “stand-by pay.” A unanimous state Appeals Court panel ruled against the officers in November.
In early November, five departments at UNC Asheville sponsored an official event accusing Israel of “anti-Indigenous state violence” for declaring war on Hamas after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. While the event was condemned across the political aisle, there have been fierce disagreements about whether the university should have permitted the event to move forward...
A legal fight over regulation of one parking lot and a barge service could have broader implications.
A bustling crowd of candidate hopefuls stood in line at the Gov. James G. Martin Building at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh Monday as candidate filing got underway for the 2024 election cycle in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will decide in the weeks ahead whether the state Utilities Commission had the right to start regulating a barge and mainland parking lot tied to the Bald Head Island ferry. A dispute over that decision generated an hour of oral arguments Wednesday at the state’s second-highest court.
North Carolina’s second-highest court will decide in the weeks ahead whether Lenoir County violated its own ordinances by permitting a new automobile auction-sales operation just outside La Grange. The town argues that the business should have been rejected as an impermissible junkyard.
Plaintiffs led by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP want the state Court of Appeals to revive their lawsuit against the Confederate monument that sits outside the Alamance County Courthouse in Graham. A three-judge appellate panel heard an hour of arguments in the case Tuesday. A trial judge ruled in favor of the county. Opponents urged the panel to reverse that decision.
Last week, Mecklenburg County's municipal elections resulted in many victories for Democrats, with Republicans holding critical seats on the Charlotte City Council.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses highlights from North Carolina’s 2023 municipal election results. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 10, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
