The former town manager for the Town of Elizabethtown, Bladen County, did not have payroll taxes withheld and possibly used the town’s credit card for non-valid town purposes. That’s according to an audit released by North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood’s office.
Newly elected Pender County Board of Commissioners member Jimmy Tate is stepping aside. In an interview with WECT in Wilmington, Tate claims he has experienced both racist and homophobic comments from fellow commission members. “If my differences bother people that bad, I am going to return the seat to the people, and maybe now they...
There have been loud calls for the removal of Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene since Sept. 28, when WECT reported on audio recordings of Greene making derogatory comments about black employees.
Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House. We look at where they’ve been, what they’re doing now, and what we might expect them to do as lawmakers. The 2021-22 session began in late January. Expect COVID-19 and the ongoing...
Illegally moving the goalposts. Intentionally violating North Carolinians’ civil rights. They’re the upshot of federal lawsuits filed separately on Saturday, Sept. 26, by Republican leaders in the N.C. General Assembly and the Republican National Committee/Donald Trump campaign against the N.C. State Board of Elections. A memo from the State Board of Elections changed absentee ballot...
A small group of N.C. voters are suing the state and the N.C. State Board of Elections over absentee voting regulations, but demands in the lawsuit may lead to election fraud, or the appearance thereof, legal and political analysts say. Marc Elias, a Democratic campaign attorney, is representing seven voters in Stringer Et Al. v....
RALEIGH — Deb Butler, a Wilmington attorney, has been selected to replace former Rep. Susi Hamilton in the state House. Hamilton, a New Hanover County Democrat, resigned to accept the job of secretary of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in Gov. Roy Cooper’s Cabinet. Butler, who unsuccessfully ran for state Senate in 2012,...
RALEIGH — Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s account in Thursday’s Senate debate regarding ethics questions surrounding the $250,644 stimulus grant awarded in 2010 to JDC Manufacturing, a Reidsville-based company owned by her husband Charles “Chip” Hagan and his brothers, John and David, differed from a statement made last month by her campaign.
WILMINGTON — Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan portrayed Republican challenger Thom Tillis as a foil of corporate cronies; Tillis said Hagan was little more than a rubber stamp for the Obama adminstration's destructive policies. Libertarian Sean Haugh argued that his message of liberty offered a needed contrast from both.
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 — The 2010 results signal a marked difference from the past two years, when voters rallied against quarter-cent sales tax hikes by wide margins. In 2008, increases passed just three of 34 times on the ballot, often voted down by 3-to-1 margins.
