A host of divisive issues confronts North Carolina, and easing political polarization is the goal of a new initiative at Duke University. “It’s kind of dangerous territory for a democracy to have this level of distrust” in one another, and in established political institutions, said Fritz Mayer, director of Duke’s newly created Center for Political...
Dangerous and deadly Winter Storm Helena has given Gov. Roy Cooper a chance to carry out the duties for which he was elected. Meaning, Cooper can get to the business of leading North Carolina. To promote the state, to ensure resources are available to keep residents safe, to offer a steady hand in times of...
While making calls for consensus, and saying “now is not the time to point fingers,” Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper renewed his challenge to the GOP-dominated legislature to repeal House Bill 2 and expand Medicaid during a Saturday morning inaugural address. “House Bill 2 is exactly the kind of social issue we don’t need on our...
Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday once again called on the General Assembly to repeal House Bill 2, the state’s statute that supersedes a now-repealed Charlotte ordinance that, among other things, requires businesses to allow transgendered people to use the bathroom of their gender identity. “It’s the most bipartisan issue that we have,” Cooper told hundreds of...
After a day of repeated pauses and extended recesses, just before 8 p.m. Wednesday the General Assembly adjourned its fifth special session of the term without accomplishing its intended purpose: repealing House Bill 2. The Senate rejected a proposal from Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, to combine a repeal of H.B. 2 — which requires...
The General Assembly will return for a fifth special session Wednesday after a Monday morning vote by the Charlotte City Council repealing its bathroom ordinance that led to the adoption of House Bill 2. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory announced the session in a press release and video late Monday afternoon, capping a day in which...
• There won’t be any “grand bargain” on House Bill 2 after all: Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts announced this morning that the Charlotte City Council would not consider a measure repealing the city ordinance that prompted H.B. 2. Had the council voted to repeal, then the General Assembly might have returned for a special session...
Editor’s note: With the announcement that the NCAA will move seven national championship events from North Carolina because House Bill 2 remains part of state law, and the Atlantic Coast Conference considering its own response, we chose to repeat an eerily prescient parody from the August 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal. Vowing not to be outmaneuvered by...
Athletic events would be held near ESPN HQ; conference officials said move would let ACC regain 'moral stature'
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper may be required to reimburse the University of North Carolina system for legal fees it must pay following Cooper’s refusal to represent the university in a federal lawsuit over the state’s controversial House Bill 2. On May 27, the board voted to request that the General Assembly assess Cooper’s...
On Monday afternoon the Charlotte City Council pulled discussion of a possible repeal of its nondiscrimination ordinance, which included a controversial provision allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. The council’s agenda had included a presentation on the economic impact of the controversy. “The mayor and city council...
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