On Tuesday, Senate lawmakers approved a bill prohibiting biological males from competing in sports designated for biological females at North Carolina schools and universities. It will now seek the House’s concurrence before advancing to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk.
Lawmakers in the North Carolina House passed H574, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act which would prevent biological female athletes from being forced to compete against biological male transgender athletes in school sports designated for females. The bill would not prevent transgender athletes from participating on teams that are co-ed or designated for their biological sex at birth.
Every year I have hope that whatever sane adults exist in positions of power will come together to ensure we never again have to deal with government-mandated clock shifting. But every year the disappointing “spring forward” arrives, as it did this week. There may not be a better example of the hubris of government than...
A single spike in a western N.C. high school girls’ volleyball game has grabbed the attention of people around the world and reignited the debate over whether males belong in girls’ sports. In the September game — between Hiawassee Dam High in Cherokee County and Highlands High in Macon County — a male Highlands player...
On a road map, you’ll find Tri-County Community College in the far western corner of North Carolina. If you look at a topographic map, the college sits within a ring of mountains formed by the Blue Ridge, forming a natural valley community made up of North Carolina’s Cherokee County and several border counties in north...
The State Board of Elections made it official. But not without a bit of controversy. The board certified results of the 2020 election during a virtual meeting Tuesday, Nov. 24. More than 5.5 million North Carolinians cast ballots. All three Democratic members and Republican Stacy “Four” Eggers voted to certify. “From the Grape Creek precinct...
Lawmakers may give students from neighboring Georgia and Tennessee in-state tuition rates at one of North Carolina’s two-year institutions. House Bill 519, “Neighbor State In-State Tuition,” would allow the Cherokee County-based Tri County Community College to give people in border states a break on costs. The bill could accelerate a new statewide tuition policy at...
ROBBINSVILLE — David Lee Satterfield is a big man stuffed into blue, bibbed overalls. He’s wearing a well-worn orange baseball cap, and a thatch of impressive white whiskers flow around his weathered face. When he shakes your hand the powerful grip and leathered skin are evidence of a life hard work. It’s ironic yet sobering...
ROBBINSVILLE — Chantilly Welch remembers zig-zagging along the ribbon of two-lane highway to drive her sick baby to a doctor. She was a dot moving amid sprawling forests and mountains, on one of tens of thousands of outgoing health-related trips residents make annually from medically underserved Graham County. Another routine day. Until the crash. “It...
Excessive federal government ownership of land limits western states and western North Carolina.
New 2008 rankings of the nation's premier public high schools from U.S. News and World Report are likely to provide fresh insights for reform-minded educators nationwide.
