The forecast for Hurricane Florence looks bleak. It’s hard to imagine as of this writing, but if the storm proceeds the way it’s predicted to go, then by next week people’s lives and neighborhoods in many areas of the state, from the coastal towns to the central Piedmont, will be…
With Hurricane Florence fast approaching — and parts of the state still recovering from Hurricane Matthew — the governor, for the first time, issued an evacuation order. Local evacuation orders as of Tuesday afternoon were in effect for 12 counties, and 14 counties have issued…
Eric Davis was chosen to replace Bill Cobey as chairman of the State Board of Education. Davis recently became vice chairman after A.L. “Buddy” Collins left to campaign for a seat on the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. Board member Alan Duncan was chosen as the…
Republican legislative leaders fear more lawsuits and constitutional showdowns with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will occur if, in their view, he keeps stepping on their control over state revenues. The concerns surfaced during a Wednesday, Aug. 29, meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee on Governmental Operations.
LAST UPDATED: 5:15 p.m., Sept. 4, to report on the N.C. Supreme Court’s ruling favoring lawmakers in their fight with Gov. Roy Cooper over two constitutional amendments. The latest update also addresses a federal three-judge panel’s ruling that North Carolina will use current maps for 2018 congressional elections.
The N.C. Senate followed the House’s lead Monday, Aug. 27, as it voted along party lines to address court concerns and pass a pair of proposed constitutional amendments. The House on Friday passed the bills creating a new state elections board…
A three-judge Superior Court panel has ordered state elections officials to delay printing fall election ballots until Sept. 1. The ruling was announced Wednesday, Aug. 15, after judges heard back-to-back arguments in two cases seeking to block proposed constitutional amendments from appearing on the ballot. Gov.
Benjamin Phillips won’t forget the day Hurricane Matthew plowed into his house in Lumberton. He was watching a baseball game when news of the coming storm interrupted the broadcast. “The weatherman said, ‘You’re about to get hit.’” Phillips said. What Phillips saw next reminded…
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…
Democrat-turned-Republican Chris Anglin won his court fight to run on the GOP ticket for Supreme Court justice in the Nov. 6 general election. Wake County Superior Court Judge Becky Holt issued her ruling Monday, Aug. 13, after a hearing on constitutional claims Anglin made in…
