Editor’s note: This story was updated Wednesday afternoon to reflect comments from the office of AG Josh Stein. N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is getting a slew of complaints from consumers over ever-rising gas prices. Residents say owners of gas stations are unnecessarily inflating prices to take advantage of supply disruptions because of the war...
Gov. Roy Cooper and the Biden administration want to make North Carolina carbon neutral by 2050, and President Biden’s ambitious plans to combat climate change lean heavily on offshore wind generation. The turbines could be a problem for fishermen. North Carolina’s fishing industry has largely been cautious in criticizing the wind turbines, saying it wants...
Democratic members of the N.C. State Board of Education have their sights set on Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt, saying Truitt was putting too many parents from schools of choice on a new advisory committee. Truitt says she’s creating the 48-member parent advisory commission to “elevate the voice of parents in students’ education”...
N.C. Rep. Jay Adams, R-Catawba, talks with The Carolina Journal’s Ray Nothstine during the Carolina Liberty Conference in Raleigh. Adams discusses the history of Second Amendment, and its future.
Canadian professor, author, and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on Thursday offered a non-political and largely academic lecture on the psychology of beauty, dreams, and purpose. The reaction from city officials and activists to the address at the Durham Performing Arts Center was night-and-day from the one leading up to his appearance four years earlier. It...
A Ukrainian priest serving the Charlotte area said the outpouring of support from North Carolinians for the people of Ukraine has been amazing, but he doesn’t see a quick or good end to the war with Russia. “Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine for economic purposes, world power, logistics,” said Father Michael Kulick, priest and administrator...
Editor’s note: This story was updated March 3 to correct competitive districts in the N.C. Senate. A new partisan index for seats in the N.C. General Assembly shows a nearly even split between Republicans and Democrats headed into the midterm elections. The 2022 Civitas Partisan Index puts 58 seats in the state House in the...
A panel of education experts weighed in on the perils posed by Critical Race Theory and radical gender theories during a discussion at the Carolina Liberty Conference. The panel discussion, held Saturday, Feb. 26, highlighted the growing culture war over how American history and civics are taught and how children as young as pre-school age...
As the war in Ukraine escalates, soldiers from the world’s largest military base, Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, are being sent to Europe, both as a deterrent to further Russian aggression and to help Americans fleeing the fighting. “On Feb. 2, approximately 2,000 were deployed from Fort Bragg; Feb. 11, we deployed another 3,000 from the...
As the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine continues to escalate, North Carolina’s local Ukrainian population is rallying to bring attention to the suffering of people in their homeland and to gather supplies to help them. Donna Goldstein, co-president of the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina, finds herself at the forefront of these efforts. Goldstein has...
Editor’s note: This story was updated Wednesday, March 2, to include new banned products. Russian vodka is no longer available in North Carolina. The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, through an executive order, has pulled the products from its more than 430 stores across the state. Executive Order No. 251, which Gov. Roy Cooper signed...
