Here is today’s Election Day numbers for the March 3, 2020 Primary
Published: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 @ 9:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Here is today’s One Stop voting totals for the upcoming March 3, 2020 Primary
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2020 @ 9:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After a week of subcommittee meetings, full appropriation consideration, input from the finance side, two rare Friday sessions, and two full days of debate, on Friday, May 3, the House passed its $23.9 billion General Fund budget proposal.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 2:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While the media will be focusing on union activists at today’s teacher march, I’ll be thinking about a young man named Junior.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 11:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Leroy Reddick Jr., 61, formerly of Pantego NC and Brooklyn NY, and now residing in Blackstone VA, passed away surrounded by family on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 5:45 am, in Greenville NC.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @ 5:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Once again teachers will descend on the state capital to call for more public school funding, Medicaid expansion, and a $15 minimum wage for all school workers.
Published: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina gets products from the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky — which makes the iconic and mostly unattainable Pappy Van Winkle — only a couple times a year, and those bottles are subsequently allotted to N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control boards around the state.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 4:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Direct democracy occurs when residents of a jurisdiction — a city, state, country — vote on policy rather than have elected representatives make these decisions for them.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 9:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Perhaps it’s fitting that North Carolina’s gerrymandering fight returns to the national stage during the same week that major-league baseball teams return to action.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On 3-22-2019, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Omar Blount, 37 years of age, of 621 Plymouth Street in Washington.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 7:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Top-ranking senators have introduced an omnibus health-care bill that would add severely disabled people to the Medicaid rolls and abolish restrictive certificate of need laws.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Acting on a tip received by the Sheriff’s Office, on Friday, March 22, 2019, Beaufort County Sgt. Nathan Drake conducted a traffic stop on a blue Dodge Charger in Aurora. During the stop, Drake located marijuana, cocaine, digital scales, plastic baggies and a loaded 9mm handgun.
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 @ 4:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This fall a “We Are Teachers” blog post, lamenting an upsurge in over-involved parents, went viral, eliciting coverage from myriad media outlets and the national teachers’ union.
Published: Saturday, April 6th, 2019 @ 8:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If Medicaid expansion forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for a service that was either previously paid for some other way or not consumed in the first place, there is no reduction in the cost of care.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new Civitas Institute poll shows a small majority of North Carolina voters describe themselves as pro-life
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The House has unanimously passed legislation to add North Carolina to a compact of states that would share psychological services in short supply.
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Senators introduced bipartisan legislation in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and in recognition of the great accomplishments the organization has made over the past 70 years
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:56 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Four Carolina Journal staff members in February sent public records requests to all 100 county governments in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, U.S. Senators introduced bipartisan legislation that would provide free, accessible legal assistance for seniors who need help reporting abuse and neglect, threats to income security, difficulty accessing and affording health care and other violations
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 8:29 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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After a week of public turmoil and bad press, University of North Carolina Board of Governors member Steve Long opened a March 22 meeting at Appalachian State University by offering his regrets for how he handled his criticism of board Chairman Harry Smith.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 7:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that the State is offering rewards of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of Anthony James Dochtermann, age 25, in Greensboro, North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 7:39 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Carolina Journal Associate Editor Lindsay Marchello sat down with Carrington on Feb. 15 to talk about his career and the challenges of keeping governments accountable
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 3:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to help family farms reorganize after falling on hard times
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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This week, special counsel Robert Mueller released his long-awaited report on alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to impact the 2016 election.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 3:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Session Law 2019-4, which became law this week, delays the implementation of photo identification requirements for voting until 2020.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 3:40 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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On 3-15-2019, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Joe Myers, 55 years of age, of 1874 Old Blounts Creek Road in Chocowinity and Candace Woolard, 34 years of age, of 1874 Old Blounts Creek Road in Chocowinity.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 9:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to address contamination from chemicals containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:22 am
By: Thom Tillis
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In a major blow to proponents of light rail, the GoTriangle Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday, March 27, to end the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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