The head of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit targeting mental health services for foster children. DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley filed paperwork Monday supporting dismissal.
Less than two weeks after going to court, the N.C. Environmental Management Commission has dropped its lawsuit against the state Rules Review Commission. The EMC offered the court no explanation for its decision.
Tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris is taking a tax dispute with the N.C. Department of Revenue to the state Supreme Court. The case involves $7.2 million in tax credits Philip Morris claims it’s entitled to take.
"We have a workforce housing crisis in North Carolina," Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, said. "Firefighters, teachers, and nurses across our state can't afford to buy a home. As a result, many North Carolinians are missing out on the American Dream and the opportunity to build generational wealth."
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court’s ruling favoring Chapel Hill in a dispute over fees charged to developers for affordable housing. Appellate judges agreed the plaintiff waited too long to file suit.
It's silly to say "many teachers earn less" than the average salary. It's true, of course, but many also earn more.
Don’t like progressive-left policies? Then don’t go to North Carolina. “We’re going to flip it,” was the warning from one of the architects of Colorado’s “Blueprint” shortly before I left the Rocky Mountains for the warmer, friendlier confines of North Carolina in January 2020. When Colorado’s professional left speaks, my experience is that we should...
A few weeks ago, three members of the North Carolina Senate — Amy Scott Galey of Alamance County, Lisa Barnes of Nash County, and Michael Lee of New Hanover County — filed a state Parents’ Bill of Rights to ensure that local schools respect parental authority to direct the education, development, and medical treatment of...
One of the most discriminatory laws on North Carolina’s books is the pistol purchase permit system, which was first implemented in 1919. To summarize, before purchasing a handgun in the Tar Heel state, one must first obtain permission from the local sheriff in the form of a pistol purchase permit. Frustratingly, the many who don’t...
"North Carolinians made it clear last November when they helped elect a Republican House majority that woke mandates and progressive posturing was not their priority. That’s why, one of my first acts as Chairman was to eliminate that Subcommittee and put in its place a Subcommittee on Digital Assets,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-NC10.
N.C. Rep. Ben Moss, R-Moore, announced on Tuesday that he intends to run for North Carolina Commissioner of Labor in 2024. The announcement comes after current Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson announced at the December Council of State meeting that he will not seek re-election.
A new poll of likely Republican voters in North Carolina gives Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a 56% to 35% lead over former President Donald Trump in a potential matchup in the 2024 primary. The first contests in the primary are more than 13 months away, but that isn’t stopping intense speculation about who on the Republican...
As soon as first-term Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson made the surprise announcement that he would not run again, Guilford County state Rep. Jon Hardister, a Republican, began hearing from supporters that he should consider the role. Contacted this week, Hardister told CJ he is highly motivated to seek the position after a successful decade in...
U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry, representing North Carolina's 10th Congressional District, has been officially named the new chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, after serving on the committee since first elected in 2005.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses legislative votes to expand Medicaid in North Carolina. King offered these comments during the March 17, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
Jon Sanders, director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation, testifies Wednesday about occupational licensing before the N.C. House Regulatory Reform Committee.
The Manhattan Institute’s new report, “Danger In The Machine,” documents the left-of-center bias embedded in the popular ChatGPT program. Author David Rozado discusses his findings and their implications.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses Gov. Roy Cooper’s last State of the State address. King offered these comments during the March 10, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Statelines.”
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis’ negative reaction to Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 narrative. Kokai offered these comments for a March 9, 2023, report on WNCN (CBS17).
The suicide rate for youths between the ages of 10- and 17-years-old reached the highest in two decades in 2021 in North Carolina, according to a new report from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force.
North Carolina State University will no longer require applicants to answer an essay question affirming the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, according to the school’s media relations department.
On Tuesday, an ACLU North Carolina lobbyist, Kristie Puckett Williams, made graphic, sexually harassing comments to conservative radio host Pete Kaliner during a Twitter discussion regarding N.C. Senate Bill 49, the Parents' Bill of Rights. Puckett Williams, Deputy Director of Engagement at the ACLU of N.C., tweeted at Kaliner criticizing his support of the bill and used more graphic directions for performing sexual acts.
An anti-trust lawsuit was filed this week against legacy media giants and big tech companies for their collusive agreement to shut down anti-vaccine coverage during the height of the COVID pandemic. Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, Washington Post, Meta, Microsoft, and Google censored coverage questioning the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines.
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.