A liberal UNC-Chapel Hill professor testified Tuesday that GOP-crafted election maps represent a conservative white backlash against rising black political power. Professor James Leloudis appeared on behalf of Democratic Party-aligned plaintiffs working to overturn voting maps passed by the Republican-led General Assembly, arguing that the maps are unfair to black North Carolinians. Leloudis, a UNC-CH...
The N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a second-degree trespass conviction against left-wing activist the Rev. William Barber. The conviction stemmed from a 2017 protest Barber led at the state Legislative Building against Republican leaders of the General Assembly. “Defendant led a group of approximately [50] people through the General Assembly office complex, protesting the...
If you aren’t hair-on-fire alarmed at how the left is using a nuclear option to stage a coup at our state’s highest court, you haven’t been paying attention. The coup would nullify two election cycles and nearly 10 million votes. This won’t be North Carolina’s first coup d’etat. In 1898, Democrats led by News and...
Hank Bauer is the new chairman of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission. He replaces A.D. Zander Guy Jr., who abruptly resigned in September. Terrance Merriweather, deputy commissioner, oversaw daily operations for the agency in the interim. Bauer, a news release says, is former general manager at Empire Distributors, where he also served as the director...
Gov. Roy Cooper says he will sign the first budget from the General Assembly since he took office in 2017. The announcement came in a news conference Tuesday, Nov. 16, and before the first vote from the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The General Assembly released the $25.9 billion budget plan Monday, Nov. 15. Senate lawmakers...
Sources connected to the North Carolina House and the North Carolina Senate confirmed to CJ that they have firm commitments from enough Democrats in both chambers of the General Assembly to pass a final compromise with enough votes that Gov. Roy Cooper will either have to sign the budget or allow it to become law...
As conservatives, we cannot overstate the importance of both the U.S. and North Carolina constitutions. Those documents set the framework for our government, with any additional laws or regulations falling within those parameters. Our system of self-governance allows for those documents to be amended, and the time to do so is now for the state...
The N.C. Department of Transportation continues to be under the watchful eye of the state auditor, who in a report released this week says that department failed to exceed its developed spending plan only by pure luck. The report from State Auditor Beth Wood’s office said that while the DOT didn’t exceed the spending plan...
Over the past month, Americans have descended into a heated debate about “critical race theory,” and a bill aimed at banning it has made North Carolina the latest battleground. The controversy over the legislation, titled H.B. 234, has drawn some questionable allegations about what it would do. Would the bill really incite “a fear-based approach...
Texans and North Carolinians highlight differences in worldview, but this time it has nothing to do with barbecue. The two states aim at addressing race-based education in K-12 schools. However, they do so in different ways. In Texas and North Carolina, the legislatures are controlled by Republicans. Even so, Texas Republicans and North Carolina Republicans...
The latest debate in the North Carolina General Assembly is one over pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs. Senate Bill 257 and a House committee substitute (PCS) to that bill represent similar but competing visions of regulating PBMs. Though sometimes villainized, PBMs play an important role in the U.S.’s third-party payer health care system. PBMs deserve...
