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‘Serial sign thief’ caught on camera for third time at Fraternal Order of Police Charlotte office

A sign thief was caught on camera stealing political signs from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police office not just once, but three times in the span of a week and a half. The Charlotte-Meckleburg FOP – the nation’s oldest and largest police labor union – displayed several political signs outside its building in support...

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Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police criticizes statewide candidate for exploiting officers’ deaths

Braxton Winston, the Democratic candidate for North Carolina Labor Commissioner, was blasted Monday on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police’s Facebook page for offering condolences for the four officers killed in an ambush on April 29 in East Charlotte.

Theresa Opeka, Jeff Moore
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Winners still flirt with swing voters

Carolina Journal’s first post-primary survey is out. It shows our state’s 2024 general elections will be, as usual, quite competitive. That’s not to say North Carolina’s electorate is perfectly purple. It’s not. All other things being equal, Republicans enjoy a modest edge statewide of a few percentage points. As John Locke Foundation analyst Andy Jackson...

John Hood
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Bad for business? NC Chamber bemoans primary winners Morrow, Farley

North Carolina’s economy has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, earning it the moniker of “The Best State to do Business” two years in a row (2022 & 2023) by CNBC, among other accolades. But, with recent GOP primary election winners, Michelle Morrow for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction and Luke Farley for NC Commissioner of Labor, the North Carolina Chamber fears that the state’s crown may be tarnished if they and others win in the General Election.

Theresa Opeka