News

Kinsley urges federal court to kill suit targeting foster children’s mental health

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.

CJ Staff
News

New bill aims to help North Carolina workers afford housing

"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."

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

Locke’s Mitch Kokai analyzes Tillis reaction to Tucker Carlson and Jan. 6

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).

Mitch Kokai

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