Like many North Carolina business owners burdened by Gov. Roy Cooper’s prolonged COVID-19 shutdowns, Greensboro developer Marty Kotis is fed up. He’s taking questions and complaints to the streets, literally, launching a billboard campaign along Greensboro’s Battleground Avenue. “Where’s the logic?” Says one of…
Gov. Roy Cooper owns this. He owns the coronavirus response and everything that will follow. Cooper has refused to confer with the Council of State, vetoed the General Assembly’s efforts to get businesses safely opened and people back to work, relied solely on…
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Reopen the schools: Five parents are challenging Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ decision to start the school year with full-time remote…
It’s a beautiful day for golfing in Pinehurst, or so North Carolina’s politicians would have you believe. Look closer, experts say, and you’ll see it’s a beautiful day for government handouts and corporate welfare. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, the U.S. Golf Association…
N.C. bar owners are planning another rally Thursday, Sept. 10, as part of a months-long effort to persuade Gov. Roy Cooper to reopen bars. Bar owners from around the state protested outside the Executive Mansion last week. Thursday’s rally, at the same site, is scheduled…
Will Easter is a promising N.C. musician. A career just starting to take off. I reached him on his cell phone, and he wanted to talk. A bit busy now, though, he said. Hanging drywall. “I actually took a job…
For the first time in more than 20 years, Chef Felicia Daniel has no plans for autumn in North Carolina. It’s a muggy, Friday afternoon on Aug. 7 when I phone Daniel, the operator of the N.C. State Fair’s popular Chef’s D’Lites concessions booth. She picks…
“You don’t matter.” Three words. Eloquent in their simplicity, biting in their clarity. They come from a letter, posted on Facebook, from the N.C. Bar and Tavern Association. They come a day after the group’s founder, Zack Medford, who, in a letter…
The Pour House Music Hall and Record Shop is eerily quiet. Dusty. Empty. It’s as though the music hall is still under construction, or in some stage of renovation. A cordless drill and some sound equipment are spread out over one end of the…
Remember that Roy Cooper won’t be in office forever. Whatever power he seizes today may be exercised tomorrow by a very different governor.
