The N.C. Bar Owners Association, in a news release, says the N.C. ABC has canceled some 120 permits for private bars, without notice. Private bars in North Carolina, for all intents and purposes, have been closed since March, although the governor in October allowed them…
If parents want to send their child or children to a school that will champion and not scoff at America’s founding principles, there is no legitimate reason a bureaucratic system should halt it.
Nearly a month after COVID-19 vaccines made it to North Carolina, the state has administered only a quarter of the doses it has on hand — one of the slowest roll-outs in the country. Lawmakers grilled the Cooper administration over its slow handling of vaccine distribution…
Gov. Roy Cooper and Dr. Mandy Cohen, state health secretary, took a decidedly political tone in a COVID-19 news conference Tuesday, Jan. 12. Both Cooper and Cohen talked of falsehoods and dangerous rhetoric that led an angry mob, upset over the November election, to storm the…
Lawmakers are returning to Raleigh, and they have a loaded agenda. The legislative session begins Wednesday, Jan. 13, when lawmakers will deal with the pandemic, pass a budget, complete redistricting, and tackle needed reforms. Republicans remain in control of both chambers, but they lack the numbers…
Transmission of the COVID-19 virus has been “extremely limited” in public schools that have reopened in North Carolina, a team of researchers from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill have found. A new study published this week says only a handful of…
Just after Natalie Jacome launched a new clinic, the pandemic hit. Jacome found herself saddled with two leases and scrambling to educate her fourth-grade daughter. As a single mother, she couldn’t stop working, and she couldn’t gamble on another stalled school reopening. But as Jacome logged…
Stay home. Wear a mask at all times. Don’t interact with anyone outside your household. If you do, get tested for COVID-19, N.C. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Mandy Cohen has directed the people of North Carolina in a new set of toothless requirements from state…
North Carolina won’t fully open anytime soon. The governor’s unilaterally imposed curfews and shutdowns will continue for three more weeks. Dr. Mandy Cohen piled on Wednesday, Jan. 6. The head of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services enacted a “secretarial directive” warning people to…
Koka Booth Amphitheatre will remain dark this winter. All the small details are wrong. The courtyard is too clean, and the rain has had months to wash away any traces of visitors. The trash cans are filled only with dead leaves. The air smells of warmed wood…
