Those looking for the hometown holiday experience should visit Marion, NC in the coming weeks.
As the cold and darkness of winter gradually retreats and the unprecedented disruptions of recent years fade into the past, somehow a sense of dread still hangs over us. Our news reports feature one furious and insoluble cultural conflict after another, quoting politicians and pundits more focused on vilifying the other side than proposing solutions....
As a three-judge panel heard a second week of testimony in Common Cause v. Lewis, defense attorneys and witnesses tried to cast doubt on the ability of statistical analysis to predict how North Carolinians would vote in legislative elections. Plaintiffs have produced several expert witnesses who illustrated how their computer-simulated district maps would produce more...
RALEIGH — A Monday event in Whiteville honoring former state Sen. R.C. Soles, D-Columbus, has been canceled. Soles decided Thursday to cancel the event awarding the Order of the Long Leaf Pine after the Tabor City attorney learned that Carolina Journal had been unable to find any record showing that former Gov. Bev Perdue approved the award.
RALEIGH — Federal officials say they want states to protect employment information while it is protected by an embargo, but they haven’t offered specific guidelines. The government has hired Sandia National Laboratories to review security procedures for federal data.
RALEIGH — Members of Gov. Bev Perdue’s administration appear regularly to have violated signed agreements between the state and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics when they shared monthly employment reports that were protected by an embargo, documents obtained by Carolina Journal indicate.
RALEIGH — The letter from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce stated that Gov. Bev Perdue and the Employment Security Commission may have shared jobs data that was not authorized by a cooperative agreement between North Carolina and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
RALEIGH — It’s unclear whether Perdue’s error not only violated the cooperative agreement the Bureau of Labor Statistics enters with the Division of Employment Services but also broke a federal law protecting the confidentiality of employment data.
RALEIGH — Staffers for Gov. Bev Perdue received employment estimates while they were protected by an embargo. They used the information to put a positive spin on monthly jobs reports. The practice appears to violate a federal law protecting the data’s confidentiality.
HENDERSON — Partners for Developing Futures has teamed with Raleigh-based Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a key player in lobbying the General Assembly to eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools.
Gov. Perdue’s real problem is not that she is a closet totalitarian. It is that her ideas are dated and wrongheaded, and she expresses them poorly.
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