The articles may have been a bit out of touch, yes — but many of them were also really funny. And more importantly, students on campus should have the latitude to make clumsy jokes.
A new Catawba College–YouGov poll finds that North Carolina residents broadly oppose raising taxes to fund public schools, with no partisan group, including Democrats, reaching majority support. The survey also shows strong opposition to federal control of elections and a sharp partisan divide over ICE activity in the state.
Despite the protest being planned with administrative approval, parents told me they received no upfront notice — only after-the-fact alerts, leaving families feeling excluded and schools weaponized for politics.
Concord, Cabarrus County, is among 21 cities across the US that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has either bought or plans to buy warehouses to convert into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers to house illegal immigrants.
Homicide rates in NCs five largest cities either held steady or declined in 2025, an improvement over the negative trends in violent crime seen following the pandemic.
NC lawmakers grilled Charlotte officials on crime and public safety. Sheriff Garry McFadden deflected questions on jail deaths and criticized Iryna’s Law.
If the visa overstay had been enforced, or if the 2020 DUI charge had triggered an ICE detainer, he may not have been on the road on Jan. 16.
NCSBE voted 3-2 in favor of using a federal immigration-verification system to help identify non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls.
As many as 200 construction workers failed to report to multiple large commercial job sites in Raleigh Tuesday, amid increased immigration enforcement activity.
As US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continues its Operation Charlotte’s Web targeting criminal aliens across North Carolina this week, the effort is also casting a spotlight on human-trafficking cases.
US Customs and Border Protection is set to begin operations in Charlotte this weekend as the nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration continues.
