John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke says “we won’t comply” with President Biden’s plan to force private employers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers. Cooke is publisher of Carolina Journal. “That one man – Joe Biden – wants to force free Americans to inject something into their bodies should be…
Woodhouse was headed to Salisbury the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, to cover Elizabeth Dole’s announcement for U.S. Senate. Dole filed for office on Sept. 23 but waited several months to hold a public kick-off. I arrived at the office at 9 a.m, my normal time to report…
For five hours on Tuesdays, I had my mom all to myself. My older brother would go to his preschool near the airport in Columbus, Georgia, dad would go to Fort Benning for work, and she and I would return home to eat breakfast and watch Good Morning America. Those…
Twenty years ago, on Sept. 11 I dropped my toddler and infant off at day care, completely preoccupied with the impending long commute into downtown Washington, D.C. I was a reporter at Reuters Television covering North America and the nation’s capital. Like many of us, I remember noticing what a…
In a radio station newsroom, 8:45 a.m. typically represents a point of limbo. Newscasts for morning-drive programs are winding down, and anchor/reporters are starting work on new stories to compile and write for the rest of the day. As assignment editor for Raleigh’s AM 680 WPTF, I was placing and…
I was in Las Vegas, an assistant city editor for the afternoon daily newspaper, the Las Vegas Sun. I awoke that Tuesday morning to a clock radio, from which an announcer was talking about a plane flying into a building in New York City. He…
I had just begun my junior year in high school when America’s aura of invincibility ended for my generation on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Even back then, I was an avid follower of politics and world events — one of the few kids to watch the nightly news…
My first job out of college was assisting with military casework for former U.S. Congressman Gene Taylor in the Gulfport, Mississippi, district office. I was at a financial services office during the bulk of the attack watching on TV. My dad had been pestering me about opening a Roth IRA.
District Attorney Scott Thomas, who served more than six years in the General Assembly as a Democrat in first the House and the Senate from 1999-2006, has left the Democrat party and become a Republican. Thomas announced the switch late last week. He serves in North Carolina’s 4th Prosecutorial District…
Republican budget writers in the General Assembly are bristling after the judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case set an arbitrary deadline of Oct. 18 for lawmakers to fund the court-ordered plan. In a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 8, Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the…
