Three North Carolina races go to run-off elections on May 14th
Three of North Carolina's races will go to a run-off in May.
Online sports betting proved to be big business the first week it became legal in North Carolina. According to a Sports Betting Report released Wednesday by the North Carolina State Lottery Commission, over $198 million was wagered by North Carolinians, while payouts amounted to $141.5 million.
The North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Economic Investment Committee (NCEIC) ended yet another Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) on Tuesday after a Durham firm said it couldn’t create the 878 jobs promised under the agreement.
As expected, the North Carolina Republican Party’s executive committee selected current Executive Director Jason Simmons as the new chair in Selma on Tuesday.
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey seeks to take part in a state Supreme Court dispute involving former top North Carolina political donor Greg Lindberg. Lindberg is scheduled to return to federal court in May on charges that he bribed Causey after the 2016 election.
North Carolina lawmakers recently authorized pilot programs in 17 high schools across the state with the intention of encouraging more students to pursue high-tech careers. On Tuesday, a joint legislative committee heard an update on the results so far. The pilot programs are housed under the SparkNC label. In 2023, lawmakers OK’ed $3 million in funding...
In response to a recent Carolina Journal opinion piece written by Glen Stephens, who acknowledges the poor record of North Carolina’s services to its academically and physically challenged students, let me say, I share your frustration. I have a child with developmental and academic challenges. Public schools could not accommodate my child’s unique learning needs,...
How has North Carolina’s economy been performing lately? Let’s focus on four standard measures: unemployment, jobs, incomes, and gross domestic product. Last week, the US Census Bureau released its latest jobs report. It’s based on two surveys. The household survey polls hundreds of North Carolinians and generates, among other statistics, the unemployment rate. The establishment...
Two new policy briefs from the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal take aim at college and university accreditation. On Feb. 25, the Martin Center released its first brief, “It’s Time for More States to Sack SACS,” by Adam Kissel. Kissel was deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs at the US Department of...
A standout employee at Novant Health lost his job because of the company's embrace of questionable diversity goals.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) certified the March 5 primary during a board meeting Tuesday.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were in Wake County to deliver speeches with Gov. Roy Cooper, a fellow Democrat, on healthcare costs. The visit comes during the week of the 14th anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act under the Obama administration.
The Republican Party of North Carolina will elect a new chair, by vote of their executive committee, next Tuesday, March 26. As the vote approaches, former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his endorsement for the next leader of the NCGOP.
On Thursday, Senate Democrats rejected a bill one day after it was introduced by Republican U.S. Sens. Ted Budd-NC and Katie Britt-AL, that was named for the 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant last month.
Walker withdraws from the CD-06 race making McDowell the official Republican nominee.
This week on “The Debrief”: A new post-primary Carolina Journal Poll shows Republicans in the driver’s seat in multiple statewide elections. Former Congressman Mark Walker drops his bid to return to Capitol Hill and joins Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. A federal voter ID trial will take place in May. State, local, and federal officials debate...
Once again, voters find themselves choosing between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to take the White House in November. The latest Carolina Journal poll went in the field promptly after Super Tuesday to get a sense of voters’ post-election sentiments and early insights into who voters are favoring for the general election....
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the 2024 North Carolina governor’s race. Kokai offered these comments during the March 1, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
This week on “The Debrief”: AI and political intrigue; candidates visit the Tar Heel State in the days ahead; election law changes delay results. Be sure to visit CarolinaJournal.com each day for the latest on North Carolina politics and public policy.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses North Carolina’s Leandro education funding lawsuit and reforming the state’s system of paying for students’ education needs. King offered these comments during the Feb. 23, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
North Carolina resident and independent journalist Steve Baker is facing four charges from federal prosecutors targeting him for covering the capitol breach on January 6, 2021. Baker has been assigned to Obama-appointed Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, DC.
US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, received a threatening voicemail from a caller who said she would “find him and shoot him and cut him into pieces” if he voted to ban the social media platform TikTok when a bill banning it comes up for a vote in the Senate.
A recent Gallup poll shows that young and senior women identifying as liberal is up 11 points since 1999, but experts say ideology is different from partisanship.
As House passes bill to ban TikTok, north Carolina is ranked in the top ten "social media obsessed" states.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the New York Times’ column warning about America’s “free-speech problem.” Kokai offered these comments during the March 25, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Canadian professor, author, and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on Thursday offered a non-political and largely academic lecture on the psychology of beauty, dreams, and purpose. The reaction from city officials and activists to the address at the Durham Performing Arts Center was night-and-day from the one leading up to his appearance four years earlier. It...
As the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine continues to escalate, North Carolina’s local Ukrainian population is rallying to bring attention to the suffering of people in their homeland and to gather supplies to help them. Donna Goldstein, co-president of the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina, finds herself at the forefront of these efforts. Goldstein has...
The fourth estate, journalism, is racing to receivership unless we can rescue it from its rapacious self. The hubris hasn’t always been this bad, this blatant, or this biased, yet it worsens daily. In the town I grew up in, Nashville, Tennessee, there were two newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s, one for the morning,...
One of the goals within our cultural wars is to push Christmas aside, to make even more room for divisive politicized agendas that tear us apart.