Cases involving a high-profile political activist and a controversial state medical regulation await the N.C. Court of Appeals as it returns to regular in-person hearings this week. The state’s second-highest court announced recently that it will resume its regular schedule of in-person oral arguments with the start of its fall session. Three-judge Appeals Court panels...
Liberal activist the Rev. William Barber is loudly calling for a special prosecutor to take over the case of Andrew Brown, who was shot after Pasquotank County deputies tried to serve him with search and arrest warrants. “Inept. Incompetent. Incapable of fixing this,” said Barber in a community protest, according to the News & Observer....
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson testified in Washington D.C. Thursday, passionately arguing that people of all races and backgrounds are fully capable of obtaining voter identification and participating in a secure voting system. “It’s time that we modernize our election system in this country and stop playing all these silly games based on race, and please...
A sea of red shirts and picket signs flooded downtown Raleigh on Wednesday, May 1, and, for now, public opinion may be in their favor. But are the teachers and N.C. Association of Educators, which organized the rally, overplaying their hands, two policy experts ask. The educators’ demands are many: $15 wages for all school...
DEQ Secretary Michael Regan has named a 16-member Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board. The group was set to be introduced during a ceremony in the agency’s Green Square Lobby on Wednesday, May 2. A news release said the board will help DEQ achieve and maintain fair and equal treatment in developing, implementing, and enforcing...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline cuts a 600-mile underground swath through three states, beginning in Harrison County, West Virginia. It branches out to Chesapeake, Virginia, and also continues south near Roanoke Rapids and heads to Pembroke — traversing counties such as Nash and Cumberland before settling in Robeson. The route keeps company with Interstate 95, running...
RALEIGH — It was anything but quiet Tuesday morning at the North Carolina General Assembly. The House Finance Committee had planned to approve that body’s tax plan during an early morning meeting. A news conference was scheduled at 11 a.m. to unveil the House finance package. The tax plan survived. But the day’s business was disturbed...
The state and national NAACP are calling for economic boycotts of North Carolina over House Bill 2 and other conservative public policy issues. Republicans condemned the action, and one top party official compared the action to hostage-taking. The Rev. William Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP, announced at a news conference Friday that the...
Gov. Pat McCrory sued U.S. and Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday, and within hours she countersued him, placing the state at the epicenter of the Obama administration’s national transgender rights agenda. McCrory is seeking an injunction and federal court order declaring North Carolina is not discriminating against the transgender community with its House Bill...
State Board of Elections officials say charges that North Carolina’s new voter ID requirement led to long wait times at the polls and unnecessary confusion that harmed voters are off target. The law, requiring voters to present a state-authorized photo identification document at the polls, went into effect for the first time in Tuesday’s primary...
RALEIGH — More than 2.9 million North Carolinians went to the polls during the 10 days of early voting and election day on Nov. 4, more than any other midterm election in the state’s history. That’s 44 percent of North Carolinians registered to vote. It’s also 38 percent of North Carolina’s voting age population of nearly 7.7 million — higher than the 37.4 percent in 2010.
