I arrived at the office at 9 a.m, my normal time to report to the Front Street offices of WNCN-TV, also known as NBC-17, the NBC affiliate at the time for the Raleigh-Durham media market. After graduating from Campbell University in 1995, I had been a working reporter for the new station, covering general news...
North Carolina’s installed solar power is second only to California’s. Some may cringe at the thought of following California’s energy policy, given the rolling blackouts imposed there. Solar power seemed like an attractive option in 2007, when the Democrat-controlled legislature handed Democratic Gov. Mike Easley a bill that provided sweeping incentives to encourage solar power...
Education activists and Democratic lawmakers want to spend more on education, even as the state faces a massive budget shortfall and is entering a potentially disastrous hurricane season. Every child in North Carolina has a right to a sound, basic education, according to the landmark Leandro case. The state for years has grappled with how...
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper raised $605,649 — 7% of his 2019 campaign funds — from residents of New York and California, based on a Carolina Journal analysis of his campaign finance reports. But details about Cooper’s fundraising trips to those states are hard to come by. Two trips to New York are at the heart...
In late 2000, Democratic Gov. Mike Easley and the Democratic majority in the N.C. General Assembly fretted while Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning wrote the third section of a memorandum of decision in Leandro v. State of North Carolina. Leandro is a 1994 lawsuit that focused on the state’s constitutional duty to provide...
The State Board of Elections ousted Executive Director Kim Strach Monday, May 13, on a party line vote, naming Karen Brinson Bell of Charleston, South Carolina, to replace Strach effective June 1. Strach served six of her 19 years with the state board as executive director, having built a reputation as an intrepid investigator on...
It wasn’t about partisan politics, former Gov. Jim Martin said. It’s something much worse. Martin, and the four other living former North Carolina governors, held a news conference Monday, Aug. 13, in the State Capitol building, standing in bipartisan opposition to two constitutional amendments they say would limit executive power. “The symbolism here in the...
The N.C. Department of Justice is considering how to respond to a Superior Court judge’s ruling that the state unconstitutionally charged health insurance premiums to state retirees. Already wracked by $42 billion in unfunded liabilities, the State Health Plan might have to absorb billions of dollars more in unanticipated costs, which could foil plans to...
RALEIGH — In June 1996, one year after N.C. Attorney General Mike Easley settled a lawsuit and granted exceptions to state beach-erosion laws for homeowners at Bald Head Island, the island’s developer sold Easley and his brother a new home — for at least $70,000 less than a comparable home.
RALEIGH — The N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that the Public Records Law does not cover statements filed in requests for pardons from the governor.
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley, saying proper procedure had not been followed, thwarted Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry’s attempt in a Council of State meeting Tuesday to learn the identities of the individuals awarded a new lease for the state-owned Southport Marina property. Related Easley/Marina/Cannonsgate Articles: CJ: Berry wants marina owners known CJ: SAS has role in marina deal CJ: Board dismisses Easley complaint CJ: Easley didn't disclose relationship before vote
