As the May 14th second primary approaches, Carolina Journal invited the candidates into our studios to talk about their goals and the 2024 race. Jim O'Neill faces Hal Weatherman to be the Republican nominee for North Carolina's lieutenant governor.
As the May 14th second primary approaches, Carolina Journal invited the candidates into our studios to talk about their goals and the 2024 race.
Brianna Kraemer, Carolina Journal public policy reporter, discusses the latest developments in the story of a Davidson County high school student suspended for using the words “illegal alien” in class. Kraemer offered these comments during a May 8, 2024, appearance on One America News Network.
Led by North Carolina’s US Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-11, the Equal Representation Act would exclude noncitizens from being counted in determining the apportionment of representatives and Electoral Votes.
A damning new report released Wednesday by North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell shows that 340B hospitals in North Carolina are overcharging cancer patients in the State Health Plan on average over five times the cost of cancer drugs.
By all accounts, President Biden is going to be spending a lot more time in North Carolina. But I’d wager to guess he won’t say a thing during his visits about what his administration has just done to ban most new gas, diesel and traditional hybrid vehicles by 2032. If this is news to you,...
When asked what the biggest issue is influencing their voting decisions this election year, more voters across North Carolina chose “immigration” than any other option, even over the ever-relevant economy, according to a recent Carolina Journal poll. It’s an understandable area for concern; illegal immigration through our nation’s southern border has skyrocketed in the last...
Critical American institutions are crumbing before our eyes because the intellectual elites charged with caring for those institutions are failing on a grand scale. In academia, business, and government people in critical leadership positions are failing the most basic responsibilities and across the spectrum. Students, stockholders, customers, and citizens are suffering failure, as is the culture...
When officers from the US Marshal Service, the NC Department of Adult Correction, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and other agencies approached a home in eastern Charlotte on April 29, their purpose was to serve warrants on a fugitive named Terry Clark Hughes Jr. The fugitive fought back, costing four men their lives: Adult Correction officers...
President Joe Biden made two stops in North Carolina on Thursday. The first took place after 1 pm in Charlotte when he met privately with the grieving families of the four officers who were killed in an ambush in east Charlotte on Monday.
In-person early voting for the May 14 second primary/runoff election began Thursday at 8 am. It will end on Saturday, May 11 at 3 pm.
A federal judge has struck down North Carolina’s law criminalizing felon voting. The law “was enacted with discriminatory intent, has not been cleansed of its discriminatory taint, and continues to disproportionately impact Black voters,” according to a court order US District Judge Loretta Biggs issued Monday.
Rep. Jon Hardister, R-Guilford, announced Thursday that he will resign his position in the North Carolina House, telling Carolina Journal that he would not rule out a return to public service at some point in the future, but for now he will be working in the private sector.
As expected, the North Carolina Republican Party’s executive committee selected current Executive Director Jason Simmons as the new chair in Selma on Tuesday.
As the May 14th second primary approaches, Carolina Journal invited the candidates into our studios to talk about their goals and the 2024 race.
Brianna Kraemer, Carolina Journal public policy reporter, discusses the latest developments in the story of a Davidson County high school student suspended for using the words “illegal alien” in class. Kraemer offered these comments during a May 8, 2024, appearance on One America News Network.
On this week’s edition of “The Debrief”: State lawmakers are ramping up work for their short election-year session, and the John Locke Foundation’s CEO tackles the organization’s top legislative priorities for 2024. The head of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity addresses major election-year priorities. We also address the heavy hand of government regulation, which...
Jeff Moore, Carolina Journal deputy editor, discusses recent developments during anti-Israel protests at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moore offered these comments during a May 1, 2024, interview with the One America News Network.
Brianna Kraemer, Carolina Journal public policy reporter, discusses the suspension of a 16-year-old Davidson County high school student for using the words “illegal alien” in class. Kraemer offered these comments during an April 19, 2024, interview on One America News Network.
Should activism be promoted in classrooms? Most of the general population would say, no, it does NOT belong. But the actions of outside organizations with powerful influence on education are worrisome to parents across the state. The question becomes, how do we stop it? There is a statewide competition for public schools in North Carolina called the...
The meeting was packed with fired-up residents who called on the board to issue an apology and remove the infraction from Christian's record.
Victims of the October 7 terror attacks in Israel are suing National Students for Justice (NSJP) in Palestine, the AJP Educational Foundation, Inc. also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) saying they are operating "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."
Summer is on the horizon, and North Carolina remains a top destination for travelers. This year’s tourism outlook, however, is uncertain amid ongoing economic instability and elevated costs contributing to financial strains for many Americans. Numerous destinations await travelers in the Tar Heel State, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the glistening sandy beaches along...
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses Disney’s controversial programming changes. King offered these comments during the April 8, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
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,...