The House Rules Committee passed two potential constitutional amendments Thursday. If added to the House calendar, and passed by at least 72 members of the House (three-fifths of the chamber), the amendments will appear on the November ballot. The committee passed Senate Bill…
The N.C. Court of Appeals gave Lt. Gov. Dan Forest the green light for his lawsuit against the Employees Political Action Committee, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina. In a split 2-1 decision, the Court…
The North Carolina Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would let voters enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the state’s constitution. Senate Bill 677 passed 44-4 with bipartisan support. Four Democrats opposed the amendment. The amendment will…
Republicans used their supermajority status to override a pair of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes of legislation intended to, in the GOP’s view, inject fairness and security into elections. The vetoes also disqualified three Constitution Party candidates in the process. “It’s a terrible precedent for the General…
A new poll shows that North Carolinians are mostly optimistic about the economic condition of the state and the country as a whole. Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, released a preview of a poll showing most N.C. likely…
As the trade dispute with China picks up, bigger farms in North Carolina are scrambling to cope with a shrinking market of customers. U.S. agriculture relies heavily on exporting its products overseas, where China is the world’s fastest-growing market and foreign consumers help keep farms in…
[Editor’s note: Updated, 4:02 p.m., to include statement from Rep. Richard Hudson.] A majority of North Carolina’s congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats, has spoken out against the separation and detainment of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border. None has supported the Trump administration’s family-separation policy.
A two-sentence order from a federal judge means North Carolina will not reinstate primary elections for 2018 judicial races. The order arrives less than a day after candidates started filing for judicial offices across the state. “In view of the opening of the filing period, the Court advises the parties…
WINSTON-SALEM — Shawn and Cindy Weeks would like nothing more than to move. They’ve outgrown their house, on a quarter acre in Winston Salem, but can’t find a buyer. It comes down, really, to one law, which removed basic property rights and left homeowners in real estate purgatory. …
In 1983, Marsalee Nicholas, “Marsy,” a student at the University of California-Santa Barbara, was shot to death by her stalker ex-boyfriend. One week after the killing, Marsy’s mother, Marsella Leach, and her brother, Henry Nicholas, were accosted by the alleged killer in a grocery store. They had no…
