News
Boat manufacturer to invest $6M, create 179 jobs in Beaufort County
One North Carolina Fund invests in boat manufacturer in Beaufort County.
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NC DEQ awards $5.7M for WNC flood mitigation projects
The blueprint invests in community-identified priority flood mitigation projects across the Cape Fear, French Broad, Lumber, Neuse, Tar-Pamlico, and White Oak river basins.
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Lawmakers expand license plate readers, add “gas station heroin” to controlled substance list
Modifications to the program were criticized as “mission creep” by one Republican lawmaker.
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NCDEQ discusses blueprint tool being developed to mitigate flooding
On Tuesday, a legislative oversight committee heard from officials from North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) and AECOM on a plan to identify areas prone to flooding and ways to mitigate it.
Opinion
Who pays the ferryman?
The question of who pays the ferryman is one from ancient Greece, and one’s eternal fate hung in the balance. Loved ones would place coins on the eyes or under the tongue of the deceased to ensure they would have the toll to pay Charon the ferryman, whose job it was to take souls across...
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Lawsuit challenges A.G.’s hog waste ‘slush fund’
A lawsuit filed by the president of a conservative policy organization says the North Carolina Constitution requires payments from a 2000 agreement between pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. and the North Carolina Department of Justice go to public schools instead of being used by the attorney general to award discretionary grants. Civitas Institute President Francis...
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Friday Interview: Exposing Myths About Blackbeard the Pirate
RALEIGH — If you’ve spent any time learning about pirates, you’ve likely heard of Blackbeard. Author Kevin Duffus says what you think you know about Blackbeard might be very different from the true story. Duffus wrote the book The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate. In 2012 he addressed the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on the topic “Blackbeard and his Carolina Pirates: Bloodthirsty Rogues or Hapless Marionettes?” Duffus also discussed Blackbeard with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
Good News? Can’t Be True
A new study found that in four major NC river basins, most monitors show either improving or stable water quality over the past three decades. This just can't be true, right?
News
Businessman Sues, Alleges Conspiracy in N.C. Government
RALEIGH — A Raleigh businessman is suing a consortium of interests, one of them linked to publicly funded Golden LEAF for allegedly conspiring to keep him from building an ethanol plant in Beaufort County. His accusations include racketeering, extortion, corruption, and conspiracy, which reach “the highest levels of state government.” The action was filed Feb. 10 in Wake County Superior Court by William Horton, president of The DFI Group, who alleges that a coalition of eastern North Carolina farmers and economic development officials used their political connections to state Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight to pressure Horton to give up his business plans and site options for building the plant.
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Businessman Sues Group Affiliated with Golden LEAF
Don Carrington breaks a story about a businessman who has sought to build an ethanol plant in North Carolina for more than 20 years and is suing a consortium of interests including the North Carolina Grain Growers’ Cooperative, which is heavily financed by Golden LEAF.
