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DEI disguised: Undercover footage shows UNC official ignoring ban right
Undercover footage from Accuracy in Media released this week exposed a university administrator explaining how officials skirt the DEI ban.
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NC regional banks under close watch amid upheaval
collapse of two large Silicon Valley California banks in recent days has officials trying to calm investors and prevent a contagious fear of bank collapse that might trigger massive withdrawals. State Treasurer Dale Folwell chairs North Carolina’s State Banking Commission and says he and N.C. Commissioner of Banks Katherine Bosken have been closely watching the situation. Folwell says he feels confident.
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Tillis, GOP Senate banking members send letter of concern over Fed nominee
GOP Senate Banking Committee members, including U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., sent a letter to President Biden on Thursday, March 3, with continued concerns of the president’s selection of Duke University Law Professor Sarah Bloom Raskin for Fed Reserve Board vice chair of supervision. Raskin, a Duke professor since 2017, served in the Obama administration...
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UNC board poised to ban some lawsuits by Center for Civil Rights
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina has no business entering into lawsuits against cities, counties, and the state, Steve Long, a member of the UNC Board of Governors, has said for months. A policy-making committee of the board agrees. Earlier this year, Long introduced a proposal to block the UNC Center for Civil Rights...
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Case studies in ‘free speech’
What follows are examples of efforts to quell commentary at both public and private university campuses throughout North Carolina. 2009: The speaker Shattered glass and pepper spray polluted the scene of a UNC-Chapel Hill protest that shut down a 2009 speech from former U.S. Rep Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who opposes illegal immigration. In a wild altercation...
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ACLU, Generation Opportunity have divergent views on free speech bill
Free speech is important, say political activists on the Left and the Right. That’s a no-brainer, yet it’s also where consensus ends. Groups such as the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and the conservative Generation Opportunity disagree about how best to protect those First Amendment rights. House Bill 527, Restore/Preserve Campus Free Speech — which...
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Campus Free Speech Bill Readied For Short Session
With the conclusion of the General Assembly’s special session over Charlotte’s transgender bathroom law, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest will be turning his attention to a Campus Free Expression Act meant to protect free speech on UNC system campuses, strike down restrictive speech codes, and punish those who attempt to stifle public discourse. Forest spokesman Jamey...
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Lawmakers Will See Minutes of UNC Closed Meeting
CHAPEL HILL — Amid questions about legislative interference in the actions of the UNC Board of Governors, the board voted Friday to make records of its controversial Oct. 30 meeting available for review by members of the General Assembly. The request by state Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore was made under the state's open meetings law.
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Source: Fennebresque, Spellings Met With McCrory
RALEIGH — UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent “emergency” meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat McCrory, a source at the meeting told Carolina Journal. Fennebresque and Spellings were in a closed session with members of the board’s selection committee when they left to meet with McCrory, several board members confirmed to CJ’s source.
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McCrory Confirms Meeting With ‘Candidate’ For UNC President
RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory's spokesman confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the governor met with "a candidate" for president of the UNC system at the governor's mansion. This news, in an email to Carolina Journal, came just as the UNC system released an agenda showing that the new president will be named at 11 a.m. Friday.
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McCrory’s Budget Raises Pay While Keeping Tax Cuts
RALEIGH — Gov Pat McCrory telegraphed his top spending priorities in the weeks leading up to Wednesday's unveiling of a $21 billion General Fund budget. The proposed 2014-15 budget is $359.5 million more than the current 2013-14 budget, representing a 1.7 percent increase. The spending plan includes modest spending increases even though the 2013 session of the General Assembly enacted a sweeping tax reform package including lower marginal tax rates.
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UNC System Finds It Hard to Put Brakes on Spending
RALEIGH — The problem with letting “the good times” roll is that it is hard to stop the rolling when the economy goes downhill. During the last few years, while North Carolina’s powerful economy filled the state coffers, the University of North Carolina started many new, expensive programs. This year, with tax revenues falling, those new programs still require funding, even as the university system explores making cuts to key academic programs.
