The Silent Sam deal might encourage copycats. The Nov. 27 agreement between the UNC Board of Governors and the N.C. chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, transferring the Confederate monument from the university to the SCV, seems “squirrelly,” said former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Bob…
North Carolina’s state pension plan is prepared to weather another recession, a Pew Charitable Trusts stress test says. North Carolina has the sixth best-funded state pension plan in the nation. It boasted a 90.7% funded ratio in 2017, leaping over the…
A decision Tuesday, Dec. 3, by the N.C. Court of Appeals rebuking Gov. Roy Cooper could have ramifications beyond the initial scope of the case, and it could influence a dispute over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Tuesday, a unanimous three-judge panel…
The open 2020 N.C. lieutenant governor’s race is drawing a crowded field of candidates, including one Republican who plans to vacate his current job on the Council of State. Rick Henderson, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, analyzes recent developments in the race for lieutenant governor. Henderson also explains how Mark Johnson’s decision…
Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, discusses Democrats’ latest proposals to tax the rich. Coletti offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
It’s been more than a decade since 22 people with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office were ousted because of rampant corruption. The state and federal investigation operation “Tarnished Badge” led to multiple criminal convictions, including perjury, kidnapping, drug trafficking, money laundering, armed robbery, and pirating satellite…
In late 2000, Democratic Gov. Mike Easley and the Democratic majority in the N.C. General Assembly fretted while Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning wrote the third section of a memorandum of decision in Leandro v. State of North Carolina. Leandro…
When her teenage son collapsed in a seizure, it hit High Point mother Kelly Kinard. Luka was addicted. He was vaping the equivalent of 80 cigarettes per day, and it took sending him to rehab in California to get him to stop. “We see our kid’s…
The utility companies responsible for building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were confident they would get the environmental permits they needed to start construction in North Carolina. What they didn’t know is whether they would win approval in time to avoid costly delays. The Cooper administration had…
Thousands of distillers, brewers, and vintners across the country, are worried. Probably rightfully so. It’s not onerous state rules or continued noise from prohibitionists that worries them. Those are certainly deep concerns, but not necessarily in this moment. The target of their…
