North Carolina is grappling with a disturbing surge in crime, according to data released by North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation this month. The state’s crime statistics show a steep increase across several urban centers, including Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington. In 2023, the state’s murder rate spiked 72% compared to 2013.
A major cable television network and one of the nation’s leading mainstream newspapers both mentioned N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper this week as a potential 2024 presidential candidate. Like current President Joe Biden, Cooper is a Democrat. No one is speculating that Cooper would challenge a Biden re-election bid. But both the New York Times and...
RALEIGH — Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina has launched what it calls the N.C. Public Charter School Accelerator program, aimed at helping rural North Carolina counties obtain charter schools, prepare potential charter operators to navigate the state’s bureaucracy, and, after obtaining their charters, help them provide quality instruction to their students.
RALEIGH — The most expensive school board race in Wake County history, the matchup pitted incumbent Kevin Hill, a registered Democrat, against stay-at-home mom Heather Losurdo, a registered Republican.
RALEIGH — In a surprise move, Gov. Mike Easley’s former legal counsel and top aide Ruffin Poole pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion Monday in exchange for prosecutors conditionally dropping all other federal charges against him.
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley’s former right-hand-man, Ruffin Poole, made his first appearance in federal court today on charges stemming from his close ties to the embattled former governor.
RALEIGH — Ruffin Poole, former Gov. Mike Easley’s general counsel and top aide, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on 51 corruption counts. The 64-page indictment includes charges of extortion, bribery, racketeering, money laundering, violation of honest-services laws, and monetary transactions involving criminally derived property.
RALEIGH — African-American males are few and far between on college campuses. Among those who do arrive, not many are graduating. That problem was the underlying theme of the John Hope Franklin Symposium conducted recently at Duke University.
CHARLOTTE — In the last six years, Charlotte and other nearby local governments have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in sports and recreation-based economic development projects. Far from being a slam-dunk, the projects have badly underperformed versus expectations.
RALEIGH — Matthew Warshauer, professor of history at Central Connecticut State University, recently addressed a John Locke Foundation North Carolina History Project Headliner luncheon in Raleigh. He also discussed his book, Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship, with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, recently addressed a John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon in Asheville. He also discussed his “Skeptical Tour of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth” with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio. (Go to http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
