News
DMV raising prices nearly 20% this summer
The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicle is set to increase prices by nearly 20% starting in July as state law requires increases every four years.
News
UNC students urge NC Supreme Court to take COVID refund case
Students seeking partial refunds for tuition and fees paid to University of North Carolina campuses in spring 2020 hope the N.C. Supreme Court will take their case. The students argue that their universities owe refunds because of COVID-related shutdowns. In a petition filed Tuesday, the students ask the state’s highest court to overrule a unanimous January decision from the N.C. Court of Appeals.
News
Court Upholds Bald Head’s Fees
RALEIGH — Bald Head Island is a resort community and incorporated municipality on a barrier island. The main form of transportation on the island is by electrically powered golf cart, and the village imposes fees on the use on internal-combustion engines. In a ruling Jan. 17, the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld the village’s 2002 10-fold increase of the fees to as high as $200 a day.
Opinion
Why UNC-CH leftists are right to complain about Coulter’s visit
UNC-CH leftists are incensed about the decision to fund Coulter's speech. Why should they pay — through their student fees — to support Coulter, whose views they find odious? In other words, they're sounding like conservatives, who've been objecting to their being made to support leftist causes through student fees for years.
