Elections & Public Integrity
Further impacts of the Griffin legal challenge
For much of the first half of 2025, Jefferson Griffin’s challenge to several of the state’s election laws took most of the air out of the election space. While a…
Gerry Cohen
Elections & Public Integrity
A Bi-Partisan Full Court Press to Restore Trust in North Carolina Elections
Without faith in our elections, we cannot have faith in any of our government institutions. That is a prescription for the collapse of our Republic.
Law & Public Safety
NC Democrat Judicial Candidate Disqualified After Admitting He Violated the Law
About a month ago, Carolina Journal’s Don Carrington published an investigative report on the resident status of a Democrat judicial candidate, Tim Gunther. Carrington uncovered that the house Gunther was…
Liberty
If you early voted for Buttigieg, or Klobuchar, or Steyer……
Given that they’ve dropped of the presidential race—-guess what–you can’t change your vote in today’s North Carolina- Super Tuesday primary. Should be common sense, but the N&O felt inclined to…
Transportation
CJ reports: Durham-Orange Light Rail project is dead
Carolina Journal‘s Lindsay Marchello reports on Duke University’s sudden refusal to sign a cooperative agreement with GoTriangle over concerns with the Light Rail: Gerry Cohen, former special counsel to the…
Liberty
Charlotte Observer calls for total redo of 9th District Congressional race
A new election between Republican mark Harris and Democrat Dan McCready in the disputed 9th District Congressional race would not be just, says the Charlotte Observer. There should be a…
Liberty
Re: Federal court throws out N.C.’s Congressional districts, again
Always fun to see how the New York Times sees us. In this case, the “starkest” Congressional redistricting battle in a state–North Carolina–where “election plans are already frozen by another…
Liberty
N.C. constitutional amendment wordplay
Interesting News & Observer article on the proposed amendment to the state constitution that would transfer much of the power to fill judicial vacancies from the governor’s office to the…
Liberty
Latest developments in Atlantic Coast Pipeline controversy
Catching you up on the latest: • Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper held a press conference slamming the General Assembly for interfering in the pipeline deal. He said he didn’t know…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Appropriating the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
If the governor directs where money goes and for what purpose, is it government spending? That is just one of a number of questions that arose after Gov. Roy Cooper…
Energy
Updated Carolina Journal Pipeline Story Here
From Carolina Journal: Is a financial agreement between the governor of North Carolina and a private party legal just because the governor says so? That’s the gist of the memorandum…
Liberty
Attorney General Stein to review Carolinas/UNC healthcare merger
Charlotte Observer reports North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein will review the merger between Charlotte’s Carolinas HealthCare System and Chapel Hill’s UNC Health Care in order to ensure healthcare competition…