Opinion
Make NC downtowns great again
If NC cities — meant to attract our best food, arts, and entrepreneurs — become known as uninteresting, or worse, unsafe, the state will fall far short of what it could be.
News
Phone carriers slapped with fines for selling location data – a political commodity
Four of the nation’s largest phone carriers must pay a combined total of nearly $200 million for selling customers’ location data to third parties unlawfully, sparking conversations around privacy and technology policy. The Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon illegally shared access to customers’ location information without consent and...
Opinion
Durham’s pitiful attempt to intimidate Wikipedia over unflattering entries
The ability to learn about virtually any topic instantly is one of the beauties of living in the internet era. But it can be a bit of double-edged sword for those who’d prefer the public not be aware of some of these details. This is the situation Durham Mayor Elaine O’Neal and City Council members...
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Mayor says Apex ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ canceled, Apex Pride says it’s still on
The mayor of Apex has announced that the “Drag Queen Story Hour” — a controversial event featuring men in (often-skimpy) women’s clothing reading stories to children — has been eliminated from the schedule at the town’s June 11 Pride Festival. But Apex Pride, who helped plan the event, claims the reading will proceed, but from...
Opinion
The Democrat primary that the GOP should fear
A Democrat, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman is being targeted by groups in the progressive wing of her party who want to institute some of the liberal criminal justice reform policies that have plagued cities across the country.
News
Could Durham provide the next member of AOC’s ‘Squad’?
North Carolina’s 4th U.S. Congressional District is a near-certain win for Democrats, but which Triangle-area Democrat will be replacing the retiring U.S. Rep. David Price, who began representing the area in Congress in 1987, is yet to be decided. The candidate really locking down the progressive wing of the party, though, appears to be Durham...
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Jordan Peterson returns to Durham 4 years after city moves to ‘cancel’ him
Canadian professor, author, and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on Thursday offered a non-political and largely academic lecture on the psychology of beauty, dreams, and purpose. The reaction from city officials and activists to the address at the Durham Performing Arts Center was night-and-day from the one leading up to his appearance four years earlier. It...
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New and familiar faces at N.C. General Assembly. Here’s the Senate:
Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House. We look at where they’ve been, what they’re doing now, and what we might expect them to do as lawmakers. The 2021-22 session began in late January. Expect COVID-19 and the ongoing...
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Nominee Farr’s supporters push back at liberals’ allegations
Veteran Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr must wait until 2018 to see if he remains a candidate for the U.S. District Court opening he was chosen to fill in July. The Senate has not voted on Farr’s confirmation, and Democrats have refused to give the routine unanimous consent needed to keep his nomination open into the new...
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Education central issue in competitive Senate District 18
For Democrats to reduce the Republicans’ dominance of the General Assembly, they’re going to have to pick up districts such as Senate 18 in Franklin and eastern Wake counties. The district features an incumbent Republican senator in Chad Barefoot, who faces locally known Democrat Gil Johnson. The two candidates make public education a priority, but...
Opinion
Campaign dispatch, March 8, 2016
• In the Democratic primary battle for lieutenant governor, Buncombe County Commissioner Holly Jones has lined up endorsements from the Winston-Salem Journal, Indy Week, and former UNC-Chapel Hill and NBA star Sam Perkins (Jones was a student manager of the 1982 national champion men’s basketball team), but not longtime County Commissioner Cecil Bothwell. Bothwell endorsed Ron...
Opinion
Intentionally Hurtful News Writing
A North Carolina reporter takes a cheap shot in a recent obituary.
