As the country heads into the unofficial start of summer this weekend, the Biden Administration announced Tuesday that it would release 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump.
Two federal lawsuits challenging North Carolina’s congressional and legislative election maps will head to trial in June 2025 in Winston-Salem. Neither case will affect this year’s elections. The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued a notice Thursday announcing a June 16, 2025, bench trial date for Williams v. Hall and North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. Berger.
Kristin Stroud is a tax attorney, CPA, and North Carolina Blockchain Initiative co-chair. Prior to founding Digital Tax Counsel, which specializes in digital asset and crypto taxation, she contracted with Bloomberg Tax and spent nine years in international tax (most recently with Ernst & Young).
Less than a month after a federal jury found former top North Carolina political donor Greg Lindberg guilty for a second time in a bribery and fraud case, Lindberg learned Thursday that the state’s highest court will take up a separate dispute listing him as a defendant.
Dan Spuller is the head of industry affairs for the Washington, DC-based Blockchain Association and co-chair of the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative. He is an appointee to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Payments Advisory Council, and from 2013 to 2016, served in the McCrory administration at the Department of Commerce and the Department of...
Republican Mark Robinson is leading his Democratic opponent Josh Stein by a five percentage point margin in North Carolina’s race for governor, according to a new poll of registered voters by High Point University.
Erin Kelly was a spring 2024 intern with the John Locke Foundation. She also interned in the office of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. Erin is in the 2025 graduating class at NC State University, pursuing a BA in Political Science concentrated in law and justice and minoring in criminology.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will consider the case of a Guilford County teenager who was vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2021 despite his objections and without parental consent. A court order Thursday confirmed that the high court will take up the case of Tanner Smith, who was 14 when he faced the forced vaccination.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has filed a lawsuit against Pactiv Evergreen, the owners of the now-shuttered paper mill in Canton, Haywood County.
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...
Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed his first bill of the General Assembly’s short session on Thursday.
