State leaders speak to the importance of the state FFA program during National FFA week.
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...
RALEIGH — The victims of stolen-identity tax refund fraud are real people, not just statistics. Two of them, whose names came up in a Carolina Journal investigation into tax refund fraud, are Jody A. Freed, of Slatington, Pa., and Evan Russell, who lives in Raleigh.
RALEIGH — If it were up to Jerry Orr, aviation director at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, far fewer travelers would be subjected to x-ray scanners and pat-downs.
RALEIGH — One of the state’s highest-paid public employees tendered her resignation not long after pension fund announced losses.
CHARLOTTE — The rapid rise in fuel prices has greatly increased costs for the airline industry, forcing fare increases and cuts in service. While airlines are hurting in general, it doesn’t follow that across-the-board cuts in flight are likely. Rather, certain types of routes and markets are more in danger of being eliminated than others.
RALEIGH — For years, public school students in North Carolina have been subjected to newer math benchmarks that favor estimation over exactitude, promoting the notion that close enough is good enough.
City leaders opt to woo NASCAR officials with a parade route and millions in public money in hopes of landing a Hall of Fame. Good thing all of Charlotte's other problems are solved.
RALEIGH — The father of NASCAR champions Terry and Bobby Labonte says he thinks the NASCAR Hall of Fame being pursued by North Carolina officials should be built in Daytona Beach, Fla., not in Charlotte, and that no public funds should be invested in the project, regardless of its location. NASCAR should pay for its own museum, said Bob Labonte, who lives in Trinity and is a city councilman there. “I don’t think taxpayer money should go to build hall of fames, or ballparks, or race tracks.” Earlier this week, Charlotte officials submitted their bid for the museum to NASCAR.
Suppose we take Charlotte's pursuit of the NASCAR Hall of Fame to its logical, if absurd, conclusion.
RALEIGH — Landmark Legal Foundation may be looking for new targets in its campaign to bring federal heat on teachers unions that illegally use member dues to fund political activities. Having investigated the powerful National Education Association since the mid-1990s, Landmark may soon be shifting its focus to some of the NEA’s local and state affiliates such as the North Carolina Association of Educators. The NCAE has been mentioned in several of Landmark’s federal complaints, such as an account of a 1999 general conference in which then-NEA President Bob Chase congratulated the NCAE for helping to unseat former Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth and elect Democrat John Edwards.
