News

House unveils new NC budget. Here’s what’s inside:

On Wednesday, North Carolina House leaders unveiled their proposed state budget. Governor Cooper will be under pressure to sign the state legislature's budget because its passage is tied to Medicaid expansion, a bill he signed last week. The House's budget will cost $27.9 billion, a 10.5 percent increase from the previous budget and a number agreed upon in advance between the House and Senate.

Alex Baltzegar

Opinion

Elections

News

DeSantis edges Trump 56% to 35% in new poll of N.C. GOP primary voters

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...

David N. Bass
News

Rep. Jon Hardister is eyeing commissioner of Labor role

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...

Dallas Woodhouse

Videos

Video

Dissident Project’s Daniel DiMartino speaks with CJ about how socialism destroyed his native Venezuela

Carolina Journal opinion editor David Larson recently sat down with Daniel DiMartino to talk about his group, which speaks to students across U.S. about the dangers of totalitarianism, and about how socialism took his native Venezuela from being the fourth wealthiest nation in the world to now having the world’s largest refugee crisis.

David Larson
Video

Carolina Journal’s Donna King leads ‘State Lines’ discussion of Medical Freedom Act

Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the Medical Freedom Act dealing with COVID-19 vaccine mandates. This conversation took place during the March 24, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

Donna King

Culture

Civil Society

News

Ukrainian people in N.C. 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