American nonprofit organization known for charitable home construction projects
After six years and millions of taxpayer dollars wasted, Governor Roy Cooper discharged the director of the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR), also known as ReBuild NC.…
Even though distillers, brewers, and winemakers can get a bad reputation, John Trump writes for Carolina Journal that they play big roles in giving back to their communities. Certain lawmakers…
Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller explores a federal government program that has consumed hundreds of millions of dollars for a nebulous purpose. An obscure Department of Housing and Urban…
So it was said yesterday, to impugn the “morality” of someone who uses his money in this way: To mitigate the effects of the federal government shutdown that spanned the…
Congressman Mark Meadows and friends have introduced a bill to go kindly on Habitat for Humanity and exempt it from certain Dodd-Frank regulations. It was argued that Dodd-Frank was forcing…
A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed this morning a lower-court ruling allowing the city of Asheville to condemn land for an easement that would allow…
UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp is leaving the university for Washington University in St. Louis. He will be remembered for a variety of things — some bad, some good. Here’s one…
Great story today about the Chapel Hill community pitching in to help fund and build a home for a family. Look at what Mr. Moo has to say about freedom…
NC State students have raised a whopping $228,000 for Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. It didn’t take a government program to do this. It took the students’ individual commitment.…
Two things I despise about modern business models are the notion that corporations are supposed to be in the business of gifting and that they are supposed to pad their…
Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson describes U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle’s comments at yesterday’s sentencing of Ruffin Poole, the man who was so close to former Gov. Mike Easley that…
Give Orange High School students a pat on the back. Through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, they’ve built a home in Hillsborough for two cousins and learned key life…