Liberty
ABC Settlement to Help Pay for Trump Library
Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about one amusing result of legacy media network ABC’s partisan bias. Trump sued ABC News for defamation on March 19, and just yesterday…
Court costs
Law & Public Safety
Warning signs about the American criminal justice system
Robert Arvay writes at the American Thinker about disturbing developments in the area of criminal justice. [I]f we ignore the warning signs, if we do not address the inequities in…
Liberty
Former Gboro mayor says pay former police chief’s legal fees
In an op-ed in yesterday’s N&R, former Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight— who served from 2009-2011, says the city should pay former police chief David Wray’s legal fees related to several…
Liberty
Gboro council buckling on former chief’s lawsuit?
News & Record reports Greensboro City Council member Mike Barber sent an email to his fellow council members suggesting not only that the city settle with former Police Chief David…
Liberty
No legal fees for the police chief, but for the mayor….
Interesting the same week we read about former Greensboro Police Chief David Wray going all the way to the NC Court of Appeals—and will probably have to go to the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Leef’s latest Forbes column highlights government compounding its errors
George Leef is no fan of civil asset forfeiture. His latest Forbes column highlights a case in which the federal government refuses to admit its misuse of the forfeiture process.…
Liberty
Let’s Have a Spree
Citizens of North Carolina may now go into debt to pay fines and court costs. So go ahead. Live a little. Rack up those fines.
Liberty
Disgraced Durham DA Tracey Cline Wants You To Pay For Her Attorneys
She was removed from her position as Durham District Attorney and now – incredibly – Tracey Cline is asking the Supreme Court to force taxpayers to pay the tab for…
Liberty
Does the Wake School Board Know Something We Don’t?
As Carolina Journal’s David Bass reports in this story, the new majority on the Wake County school board voted yesterday against taking bids for a performance audit of the system’s…
Liberty
Is Cooper’s office lying about TVA expenses?
Yesterday’s Under the Dome devoted some virtual ink to remarks by State Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry about Roy Cooper’s use of taxpayer dollars to pay two Washington, D.C., law firms…
Liberty
$729,350 and Counting
That’s the bill, so far, that Durham taxpayers have been forced to pay to defend multiple lawsuits against the city stemming from former DA Mike Nifong’s Duke lacrosse case fiasco.
Liberty
What is Jim Black Up To?
Former Speaker Jim Black wants his sentencing delayed until August. The technical reason has to do with whether the bribe Black took and passed onto Michael Decker was really a…