Around 54,800 applicants for the Opportunity Scholarship Program remain in limbo as the North Carolina House and Senate continue their stalemate on budget adjustments during the short session. Both chambers of the General Assembly have passed their own versions of the state budget, and both contain provisions that would clear the waitlist for the state’s...
Members of the 1983 North Carolina State University men’s basketball team are dropping the Collegiate Licensing Company from their lawsuit over unauthorized use of their publicity rights. The suit will continue against the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
North Carolina’s private sector lost an eye-popping 414,000 jobs in the most-recent quarter. Are we on the brink of economic cataclysm?
The US Federal Reserve will likely soon be prohibited from testing a Central Bank Digital Currency system in the state of North Carolina. The General Assembly has passed an act prohibiting payments to the state using central bank digital currency. The legislation, HB 690, also prohibits North Carolina from participating in the Federal Reserve branch’s...
State Justice Department lawyers are petitioning the North Carolina Supreme Court to take the case of a homeless man who brought guns to a UNC Hospitals parking lot in 2021. A lower court ruled that authorities violated the man’s Second Amendment rights.
The controversy surrounding the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite took a dramatic turn in Chapel Hill this week when a bus for the “Take Back Title IX” tour was vandalized while in the area. The bus, acting as both a vehicle and a mobile symbol for the national movement to preserve women’s sports, was defaced...
As a state lawmaker, it’s not my job to issue suspensions. But it is my job to improve our laws, and this incident proved our laws on short-term suspensions were inadequate.
Apple Inc. has suspended plans to build a $552 million corporate campus in Research Triangle Park.
The state Department of Health and Human Services opposes an injunction in a federal lawsuit targeting mental health services for inmates in county jails. The suit labels the situation a “statewide crisis.”
Sandy Roberson is the Republican Mayor of Rocky Mount, first elected in 2019. Roberson is also a Hampden Sydney graduate, CEO of Healthview Capital Partners. He has four adult children and is married to the former Jennifer Stone of Rocky Mount.
