Bo Hines announced Thursday that he is throwing his hat into the ring for the Republican nomination for US House in that district.
Over the weekend, former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker of Greensboro officially joined the race for the Republican nomination for N.C. governor. Walker’s announcement makes him the third candidate in the primary race, with Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell already in.
That question is roiling Wingate, a small Union County town 30 miles southeast of Charlotte. It began with a phone call between two college presidents. Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch reached out to the President of Wingate University Rhett Brown. Hatch informed Wingate that Wake Forest found that Manly Wingate, whom the school is named...
Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Mark Harris took a big swing, and he missed. Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway rejected Harris’ petition to force the State Board of Elections to certify him the winner of the hotly disputed 9th U.S. Congressional District election. In an order he read from the bench, Ridgeway questioned the...
Republican Rep-elect Mark Harris will get his day in court. Thursday, Jan. 3, he filed a petition in Wake County Superior Court seeking to declare him the victor in the 9th U.S. Congressional District election. Harris cites a recent precedent by the same court to support his demand. Late Thursday afternoon, Superior Court Administrator Kellie...
The prospect Democrats will get their wish for a new election in the 9th Congressional District could be getting stronger. A growing body of news reports suggests coordinated election irregularities occurred in Bladen and Robeson counties, challenging last month’s narrow victory by Republican Mark Harris, a Baptist preacher. Harris defeated Democrat Dan McCready, a solar...
The three-way race in House District 46 turned into a two-man tussle. Democrat Tim Benton and Republican Brenden Jones were involved in a minor physical altercation with each other at the recent Bladenboro Beast Fest, which shows how hot the race has become. Or at least how hot under the collar they are with one...
RALEIGH — Some political pundits talk about a monolithic group called the Christian Right, social conservatives who march in lockstep behind a standard set of socially conservative political views. Dr. Molly Worthen, assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, disputes that characterization in the book Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. Worthen shared key themes from the book during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — More than a decade has passed since attorneys general from almost every state settled lawsuits against the nation’s major tobacco companies. Even if you remember some details of that settlement, you might not know much about the coalition of “Baptists and bootleggers” who helped make that deal possible. Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University, discussed the concept of “Baptists and bootleggers” with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Andrew Morriss, H. Ross and Helen Workman professor of law and professor of business at the University of Illinois, recently discussed the concept of “regulation by litigation” in a Raleigh speech. He also discussed the topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Dr. Hamdy A. Radwan, president of the Raleigh chapter of the Muslim American Society and professor of physical therapy at Winston- Salem State University, was interviewed by Carolina Journal Editor Richard Wagner. The interview was conducted Nov. 29 at MAS’s office on Western Boulevard in Raleigh.
