The General Assembly’s newly created subcommittees to investigate the pace of spending on recovery efforts for Hurricane Matthew and the unusual side fund negotiated by the Cooper administration with the operation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are complete. In a Thursday, Sept. 6, press release, from the office of House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said:...
At last count, there were 48,000 farms tilling crops and tending poultry and livestock on 8.2 million acres of North Carolina soil. Agriculture and agribusiness are the state’s No. 1 industry, contributing $87 billion to the state’s economy. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, the man overseeing the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services since 2005,...
Dr. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, shares his concerns about Russian government infiltration of American environmental groups. Van der Vaart offered these comments during the Aug. 29, 2018, edition of Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight.”
A new General Assembly subcommittee will figure out why progress on Hurricane Matthew recovery has been slower here than in neighboring states. The Joint Legislative Committee on Governmental Operations heard Wednesday, Aug. 29, from a handful of lawmakers who voiced concerns with delays in aiding communities hit by the storm nearly two years ago. The...
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 797: Headlines in recent months have focused on accusations of Russian collusion. At least one aspect of the collusion debate deserves more scrutiny. In a recent column for TheHill.com, John Locke Foundation Senior Fellow Donald van der Vaart recommended that the Trump administration look into possible collusion between the...
Headlines in recent months have focused on accusations of Russian collusion. At least one aspect of the collusion debate deserves more scrutiny. In a recent column for TheHill.com, John Locke Foundation Senior Fellow Donald van der Vaart recommended that the Trump administration look into possible collusion between the Russian government and American environmental activist groups....
FAYETTEVILLE — Although top national environmental regulators confirmed GenX and related chemical compounds are used to produce solar panel components, they say their research does not prioritize what risks that might pose to the environment and human health. Peter Grevatt, national director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water in...
The potential impact of unaffiliated voters on the upcoming election was the focus of the Thursday, Aug. 23 discussion of latest statewide poll by Civitas. “Unaffiliated voters are the fastest growing and second largest block of voters in the state,” Donald Bryson, CEO and president of Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization. “There are more...
Dr. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow and former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, shares themes from his recent TheHill.com column, “To protect the environment, Trump should investigate Russian collusion.” Van der Vaart offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
The N.C. Conference of the NAACP and Clean Air Carolina are asking Wake County Superior Court to strip four proposed constitutional amendments from the Nov. 6 general election ballot. The lawsuit argues the amendments are vague, incomplete, and misleading — and that the General Assembly itself is an unconstitutionally constituted usurper body that can’t propose...
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 793: GenX dumped in the Cape Fear River has generated plenty of headlines. But there’s been much less publicity surrounding the presence of GenX and related chemicals in solar panels that dot the N.C. landscape. Dan Way, associate editor of Carolina Journal, reports that some policymakers are beginning to...
