Opinion

North Carolina bureaucrats are about to learn a lesson in the importance of property rights

When is losing the entire value of your property due to government regulation, not an “undue hardship”? According to the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission, the answer is whenever your home is on the coast. In October 2016, Michael and Cathy Zito’s Nags Head beach house burned to the ground.  Luckily no one was hurt, but the bureaucratic nightmare they faced as they attempted to rebuild was incredibly painful....

Erin Wilcox
News

Ongoing dispute between Istation and Amplify may be heading to court 

State Superintendent Mark Johnson isn’t happy with how the N.C. Department of Information Technology has handled the dispute between Amplify and Istation for the K-3 reading contract, and he’s taking the matter to the courts. The N.C. Department of Public Instruction has formally petitioned the Wake County Superior Court to review DIT’s stay blocking the...

Lindsay Marchello
News

Republicans’ appeal of Anglin ruling could upset election timetable

An appeal of a judge’s ruling requiring the fall election ballot to list Supreme Court candidate Chris Anglin as a Republican could threaten a key election deadline. Anglin’s campaign said he was served notice of the appeal Tuesday, Aug. 14, in response to the order issued a day earlier by Wake County Superior Court Judge...

Dan Way
Opinion

Connecting the wrong dots

Some reporters make mistakes that aren’t very innocent. Others distort the information they’ve gathered to push agendas. But rarely do those who engage in such malpractice suffer any public embarrassment — and it’s rarer still that their employers face any monetary setback for publishing those errors. But that actually happened in October, when a jury awarded...

Rick Henderson
News

Federal Court Tosses State’s Congressional Map

In a ruling that could delay or cancel the state’s March 15 primary election, a panel of three federal judges on Friday ruled that North Carolina’s 1st and 12th Congressional Districts violated the federal Voting Rights Act, giving the General Assembly two weeks to come up with new maps satisfying the law. But a longtime...

Rick Henderson

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