city in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States
New N.C. Supreme Court rulings today move three more state prison inmates off death row. In each case, the state’s highest court decided that the General Assembly’s repeal of the…
Three families that benefit from North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship program hope to intervene in a lawsuit challenging that program. The Institute for Justice is working with the parents. IJ successfully…
NYT headline: Trump’s Sagging Popularity Drags Down Republican Senate Candidates And of course one of those candidates is Sen. Thom Tillis who— according to an NYT Upshot/Siena College poll of…
It’s a sentiment that has been shared time and time again: “People are more important than property.” Gov. Roy Cooper even shared these words on Twitter in late May following…
“Let me be clear about one thing: People are more important than property.” – Gov. Roy Cooper, Twitter, May 31, 2020 Gov. Roy Cooper tweeted this statement amid the riots…
A message from our CEO Amy Cooke: Thomas Jefferson said, “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” All of us at the John Locke…
As Americans begin to look at the prospect of reopening businesses and restarting their economies, policymakers need to consider factors that exacerbate the spread of COVID-19. Data scientists, epidemiologists, and…
The MAP Act has been a thorn in the side of North Carolina’s property rights laws since it was enacted in the late ‘80s. A recent article in the Fayetteville…
The N.C. Supreme Court unanimously agrees that the N.C. Department of Transportation must pay a Fayetteville couple for taking their property. That taking took place in 1992 when DOT included…
NBC’s San Antonio affiliate reports: More than 12,000 homeless New Yorkers are being relocated to about 370 cities around the country. San Antonio is expected to receive several people from…
Without North Carolina's debate over the Constitution, it's possible we wouldn't even have a Bill of Rights.
John Hood writes for Carolina Journal‘s Daily Journal: Congressional elections in odd-numbered years? Odd is certainly one way to describe what many North Carolinians are experiencing right now. But in…