Editor’s note: This page will be updated as the House’s session proceeds. With the legislature’s crossover deadline a little more than one week away, the N.C. House is tackling multiple bills during the session that reconvened this afternoon. State representatives have filed nearly 900 bills and resolutions this year. Many…
In a compelling community forum, a woman described her heartbreaking involvement with the criminal justice system before Democrat party activists across the state. During a Community Listen Forum sponsored by the N.C. Democratic Party on Tuesday evening, Dreama Caldwell described how her life changed forever when, in 2015 at age…
The N.C. House committee on Alcoholic Beverage Control moved several bills Wednesday, May 5, including measures to expand growler sizes, to allow alcohol service on charter buses, and to set up “social districts.” House Bill 781, Bring Business Back to Downtown,…
The N.C. Senate has already passed its own version of a bill to outlaw collusive settlements. Now, a similar bill is on the move in the N.C. House after the Judiciary Committee gave approval Wednesday, May 5. House Bill 606 would require…
A conservative student publication at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was targeted by vandals and hackers recently — the latest example of the campus attacks on conservative political speech. Criminals defaced the publication’s new distribution boxes on campus and hacked into its website, erasing more…
As schools begin to reopen, more than a year after “two weeks to stop the spread” campaigns shuttered classrooms, newly released documents indicate the American Federation of Teachers union authored pieces of the pandemic health guidance that came from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as it relates to schools.
The N.C. Senate has passed its own version of a school-choice expansion bill that would open the state’s three choice programs to even more low- and middle-income households and families of students with special needs. Senate Bill 671 passed largely along party lines in a 29-20 vote on Tuesday,…
Republican leadership in the General Assembly has introduced legislation to increase penalties for rioting across North Carolina. House Bill 805 would establish a new level of felony penalties for rioters who cause property damage or serious bodily injury or death to others, including…
Legislation introduced in this session of the General Assembly seeks to reduce restrictions created by certificate of need laws, which critics say reduce access to health care and increase costs. Bills in the General Assembly have been filed with the intention of doing everything from making…
Republican state legislators have the full backing of their voting base on three key issues now being debating at the North Carolina General Assembly. This is according to new survey results of likely 2022 GOP primary voters obtained exclusively by Carolina Journal. Large majorities of North Carolina Republican…
