The president of the state chapter of the NAACP is leveling accusations of racism and white supremacy against auditor Beth Wood and state Sen. Lisa Barnes, R-Nash, over Wood’s investigation of corruption in the Rocky Mount City Council and Barnes’ proposed legislation intended to address it. “The truth is that Beth Woods and Lisa Barnes,...
In the latest twist of the College World Series drama, the mothers of N.C. State baseball stars Reid Johnston and Tyler McDonough said Sunday their sons tested negative six times and were not allowed to continue playing in the CWS. The Wolfpack’s Cinderella run at the national championship was cut short over the weekend when...
Democrats and their left-leaning allies offered the same criticism they have over every state budget Republicans have proposed over the last decade, beginning with their first budget after voters handed the GOP control of the General Assembly in 2010. Democrats say, as they have time and time again, that the GOP is not spending enough...
In a press conference Monday afternoon, Republican state senators presented a state budget proposal they say is grounded in North Carolina’s strong fiscal position after a decade of prudent budgeting. The Senate proposes returning a portion of surplus revenues to taxpayers and advancing needed capital infrastructure projects in their version of the two-year budget. Senate...
As state budget negotiations get down to the fine details, with an extra $6 billion in over-collected tax revenue on the table, Republicans are moving forward with another conservative spending plan to make key investments and return tax money back to those who earned it. It puts the minority party, legislative Democrats, in a tough...
North Carolina has over-collected more than $6 billion in state taxes when compared to May of 2020 economic forecasts. This according to data just presented to members of the Joint Full Chairs Appropriations Finance Committee by the nonpartisan Fiscal Research Division at the General Assembly and the Office of State Budget and Management, obtained by...
Former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker on Wednesday pointed to former 11th District congressman and former President Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows for the surprise endorsement of Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina for U.S. Senate. Walker says the endorsement “hijacked” the Republican State Convention. Walker and former Gov. Pat McCrory were seated near the...
As families across North Carolina headed to the beach, festivals, and family celebrations for Memorial Day, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R- N.C, is on the move. On Sunday, the nine-term congresswoman who calls Banner Elk in Watauga County home is traveling an hour and 15 minutes via mountainous and windy N.C. Highway 105 and 221 to...
Speaking to a sold-out N.C. Republican Party Convention fundraiser, former President Donald Trump made an early endorsement in the 2022 primary for U.S. Senate, choosing 13th District Congressman Ted Budd over former Congressman Mark Walker and former Gov. Pat McCrory. “This gentleman is going to be your next senator,” Trump said of Budd. “He is...
Carolina Journal has been following the movement to reform High School Athletics in North Carolina for more than two months. NCHSAA leaders have defended the organization and called the accusations surrounding the organization “disheartening and infuriating.” CJ wrote in-depth about how we got here, and it was not just because the NCHSAA has amassed an...
That question is roiling Wingate, a small Union County town 30 miles southeast of Charlotte. It began with a phone call between two college presidents. Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch reached out to the President of Wingate University Rhett Brown. Hatch informed Wingate that Wake Forest found that Manly Wingate, whom the school is named...
