On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill to ban China and other foreign adversaries from purchasing N.C. agricultural land and property within 25 miles of the state's military bases.
North Carolina becomes the latest state to file or pass legislation prohibiting foreign entities from purchasing farmland.
Republicans need to get a Save Women’s Sports bill to Gov. Henry McMaster, who will doubtless sign it.
Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is one of 16 governors who holds only virtual press briefings without reporters in the room. He has scheduled one for 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, when he’s expected to issue tighter coronavirus regulations. After nine months of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdowns, Cooper is in the minority. The other...
The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to protect state whistleblowers from retaliation. Senate Bill 127, which heads to the House, would bring North Carolina in line with laws in dozens of other states. Senators said the bill didn’t arise from any specific situation. But they acknowledged it would apply to a showdown lawmakers...
FEMA's role in disasters should be limited to what it does best,thereby making disaster relief more cost-effective.
RALEIGH — Two weeks before the Iowa presidential caucuses, Sen. John Edwards still shows remarkable restraint, compared to his fellow Democratic candidates, in remarks about former Gov. Howard Dean, the front-runner in most polls. In a debate Sunday night in Iowa, Edwards went relatively easy on Dean, and even received an apology from him. Many political observers think that Edwards may be resigned to Dean winning the nomination, and that Edwards is pursuing the party’s vice presidential nomination.
Howard Dean reached the highest point of his presidential candidacy thus far in early December. But is it a brief stop on a continued climb, a plateau, or a precipice?
