What does it mean to be free? Many disputes about specific issues originate from the fact that people don’t answer this question in the same way.
This week the Constitution Party of North Carolina and its gubernatorial and presidential candidates spoke to media outside the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) calling for answers on their current petition for ballot access, which the NSCBE says is still under review.
Spring gatherings this year have consumed much of our time, energy, and money, just as food inflation hits a 30-year high. In this issue of Carolina Journal we bring you the latest news from your state capital, but also an inside look at how political donations are flowing with just months to go until the...
Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Friday that he claimed would keep voters in the dark, allowing anonymous out-of-state billionaires to flood North Carolina with campaign contributions to “extreme right-wing candidates.”
A new television ad launched by the Republican Governors Association (RGA) claims the Attorney General Josh Stein “failed women” by taking years to address nearly 12 thousand untested rape kits across the state that could lead to capturing suspected sexual offenders that were yet to be identified.
Tom and Whitney Durrant have faced some unique challenges as first-generation farmers in a post-pandemic world, and alpacas are one of their unique solutions. Durrant Farms is on 86 acres just outside of Asheville. When the Durrants purchased the farm, it was in pretty bad shape. They have rehabilitated several pastures and renovated a small apartment...
At Carolina Journal and The John Locke Foundation, staff members can often be found on weekends with their noses in a book. There are few better smells in this world than that of ink and paper with a little salt air and sunscreen mixed in. As you hit North Carolina’s glorious beaches this year, stick a few of these in your bag for that after dinner conversation.
A federal judge has dismissed a High Point woman’s lawsuit against state and Raleigh law enforcement officers connected to her arrest at a 2020 COVID shutdown protest. Monica Ussery had argued that the arrest violated her constitutional rights.
State legislative leaders are appealing a federal judge’s recent ruling striking down part of a North Carolina law restricting access to the abortion pill mifespristone. Lawmakers filed their notice of appeal Thursday, one week after the US Supreme Court rejected a separate challenge to the drug from abortion opponents working with the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Congressman Richard Hudson, R, NC-09, along with fellow Republican congressmen Pat Fallon, TX, and Jimmy Panetta, CA, are seeking answers from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about what the Department of Defense is doing about the recent rise in incidents of foreign nationals attempting to infiltrate US military installations or spy on military personnel across the country.
