The North Carolina Court of Appeals offered Democratic Gov. Josh Stein and Republican legislative leaders a split decision Wednesday in their fight over changes to appointments for seven state boards and commissions. Appellate judges upheld lawmakers’ changes to four boards but rejected changes to three others.
As environmentalists at various state agencies over regulate at the expense of well-established traditional coastal industries, coastal residents are rightfully peacefully rebelling.
Lawmakers held a press conference concerning recent opposition to a bill limiting shrimp trawling on the NC coast.
In claiming this newfound jurisdiction, NCDCM was, with just a mere interpretation, rendering hundreds and possibly thousands of previously unregulated and otherwise perfectly beneficial acres of land, useless to any activity outside of agriculture and forestry.
The current battle between the legislature and the governor about board appointments touches on who actually governs the citizens of North Carolina. Most administrative boards have rule-making authority that makes them like “little” legislatures. So in the current dispute, it’s obvious from a constitutional standpoint, the state legislature should control the lions share of administrative...
It was a warm late spring afternoon in 1968 when Faye Nelson, my seventh-grade teacher, decided to take an impromptu, after lunch, field trip to the Carteret County Courthouse. It was a short walk from Beaufort Central Middle School, down Queen Street and then a right on Cedar, with 25 pre-delinquents in tow. I am...
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....
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