The state Supreme Court granted North Carolina State University a temporary stay Thursday in a legal fight tied to the shutdown of Poe Hall. The high court blocked an Appeals Court order that would have allowed outside investigators into the building that closed last November.
Former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr and the General Assembly’s top redistricting lawyer debated “fair elections” before a three-judge Superior Court panel Thursday morning. Orr asked the court to declare that North Carolinians have a constitutional right to fair elections. State legislative leaders urged judges to dismiss Orr’s case.
While students being allowed to express themselves is important, schools that allow, or even encourage, major disruptions in the school day (like walkouts and rallies) for radical causes should focus instead on boosting the state's reading and math scores.
State Rep. John R. Bradford III represents North Carolina House District 98, Mecklenburg County.
Dr. Michael Dourson is a board-certified toxicologist serving as president and director of science for Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA).
This week a variety of groups have been pushing out narratives on more taxpayer funding for childcare. You may wonder why, suddenly, this is such a crisis issue. It is because billions in COVID-era government handouts to the industry are expiring this month.
North Carolina House of Representatives unanimously classified the drug as a Schedule II controlled substance on Wednesday afternoon.
Companion legislation, HB 1029 and SB 871, have been moving through the General Assembly this week as bill sponsors seek to allow patients with terminal or severely debilitating diseases, who have exhausted all other options, to partake in experimental treatments when recommended by a physician. Both the House Health Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee took...
The North Carolina Board of Education recently voted to approve updates to the Healthful Living Standards for K-12 public schools, but some conservatives are wary of adjustments to the sex education components of the standards. North Carolina law requires school districts to “[t]each that abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for all...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson joined forces with the Moms for Liberty group outside the North Carolina legislative building in Raleigh on Wednesday morning to call for various school system reforms.
