North Carolina is generally seen as a purple state, maybe with a small red lean. And because of that, the government is often divided, with the legislature, Supreme Court, Governor’s Mansion, and other major offices split between parties. This has meant that neither side has been able to completely shut the other out of major...
This week, Republicans held a news conference, with both state House and Senate sponsors of a bill, named “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future,” that would make Opportunity Scholarships, often called vouchers, available to all N.C. families. The value of the scholarships would be dependent on income, with lower-income families getting 100% of the per-pupil...
During N.C. Senate hearings on the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, one particular moment jumped out that showed just how much the momentum has shifted in recent years. While discussing whether biological boys should be allowed to compete on girls’ teams and change in their locker rooms, Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, asked the bill sponsor,...
Protesting, rioting, harassment, speech, vandalism: what’s in a word? This week, the ACLU, a left-wing legal group, filed a lawsuit challenging the new bipartisan anti-rioting law passed by the North Carolina General Assembly. The ACLU said they worried that those participating in legitimate protest could get swept up by the police just because others in...
A tectonic shift in N.C. politics happened this week as Mecklenburg County Democrat state House Rep. Tricia Cotham announced that she was switching parties and becoming a Republican. In other years, this might not be such a huge deal. But with a supermajority in the state Senate for Republicans and a state House that was...
Recently, Kim Mackey, a Wake County social-studies teacher, put together a website called N.C. Teacher Tax, which calculates how much money teachers lose to inflation compared to the pay they “signed up for” when they started. Teachers are certainly feeling the effects of rising prices, but the experience of inflation eating away at one’s buying...
El artículo escandaloso de la semana no es un artículo sino una serie de artículos que muestran que la comunicación está comenzando a romperse en nuestro estado y nación. Comenzó el lunes, cuando se produjo un tiroteo en una escuela cristiana de Nashville, Tennessee, donde seis personas, entre profesores y alumnos, fueron asesinadas por un...
The outrageous story of the week is not one story but a series of stories that show that communication is beginning to breakdown in our state and nation. It started on Monday, when there was a shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school, where six people, both teachers and students, were killed by a former...
In a nationwide survey of Yelp reviews on homeowners associations, Raleigh tied for the city with the lowest ratings. Yelp’s lowest rating is 1 star out of 5, and Raleigh’s HOAs averaged 1.00 stars. Dissatisfaction with HOAs can cover a wide range of topics: from micromanaging the appearance of a member’s property, to increasing fees,...
El editor de opinión del Carolina Journal, David Larson, se sentó recientemente con Daniel DiMartino para hablar sobre su grupo, que habla a estudiantes de todo Estados Unidos sobre los peligros del totalitarismo y sobre cómo el socialismo llevó a su Venezuela natal de ser la cuarta nación más rica del mundo a tener ahora...
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.