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Robinson demanding answers from Biden Administration about terror watchlist suspect

North Carolina Lt. Gov. and Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, had tough words for the Biden Administration after an armed known terror watchlist suspect was arrested after a four-hour-long standoff last week in Eure, Gates County. 

Theresa Opeka
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State Supreme Court to tackle tax dispute over wireless retailer’s prepaid cards

The North Carolina Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether a cell phone retailer should have collected sales tax on its prepaid cards from 2016 through 2018. The dispute involves more than $516,000 in unpaid taxes and penalties.

CJ Staff
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Budd, Tillis among senators urging Qatar to pressure Hamas to release hostages

North Carolina Republican U.S. Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis joined a bipartisan contingent of senators on Friday urging Qatar to step up the pressure in negotiations with Hamas for the release of 134 hostages, including 8 Americans, with one of them being Chapel Hill native Keith Siegel.

Theresa Opeka
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Election challenge: Democrat incumbent protests results, citing irregularities

North Carolina House Rep. Michael Wray, D-Northhampton, has filed an election protest in the District 27 primary race, citing election irregularities that could have interfered with the election outcome. The unofficial count has Wray’s primary challenger, Rodney Pierce, ahead by just 36 votes as of Friday. Wray filed petitions for all three counties in House District...

Brianna Kraemer

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Bad for business? NC Chamber bemoans primary winners Morrow, Farley

North Carolina’s economy has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, earning it the moniker of “The Best State to do Business” two years in a row (2022 & 2023) by CNBC, among other accolades. But, with recent GOP primary election winners, Michelle Morrow for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction and Luke Farley for NC Commissioner of Labor, the North Carolina Chamber fears that the state’s crown may be tarnished if they and others win in the General Election.

Theresa Opeka

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CJ Poll: NC Voters Favor Trump, Robinson in General Election

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....

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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes the Leandro case and NC school funding

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.”

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Ukrainian people in NC rally to support homeland 

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...

David Larson
Opinion

Why the Fourth Estate is in receivership

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,...

Mark Herring