NC 250
Richard Caswell: Leader of men
One gentleman in North Carolina stood out during the American Revolution as the ultimate leader of men. Whether fighting on the battlefield, speaking in the colonial assembly room, watching over…
Kinston
Education
On This Day in NC | October 17 – 21
October 17, 1862 | Shipbuilders contracted to construct the CSS Neuse. The ironclad, one of twenty-four in the Confederate Navy, was completed in April 1864. A good portion of the hull is on…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
End of Atlantic Coast Pipeline hurts Eastern North Carolina
Low-cost energy is an essential ingredient to economic vitality. Rodney Pitts, chairman of Southern Elevator and a John Locke Foundation board member sent the following to the Charlotte Observer as…
Education
Unanimous Appeals Court rules state can’t sue former Kinston charter school over false enrollment claim
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed that the state cannot sue a former Kinston charter school over false enrollment claims. The state still can…
Elections & Public Integrity
Murphy, Perry advance to GOP runoff, Thomas wins Democratic primary in 3rd District congressional race
Pitt County state Rep. Greg Murphy tops the list of 17 Republican candidates competing in North Carolina’s special 3rd Congressional District primary election. Murphy’s 9,505 votes represent 22.5% percent of…
Elections & Public Integrity
CJ reports: Drawing sets order for packed ballot in 3rd District special election
Carolina Journal‘s Dan Way reports on the latest the vacant 3rd U.S. Congressional District seat that will be filled July 9 special election: The elections board determined the order of candidates…
Elections & Public Integrity
Rural issues take center stage in competitive state House District 12
Carolina Journal reports on the race for House District 12: It may take years for the newly redrawn and mostly rural House District 12 to recover from the economic losses…
Liberty
$1.5m for Kinston’s Global TransPark
Last paragraph in Dan Way’s CJ write-up on the state House transportation budget: The House provides $1.5 million in 2017-18 and $460,000 in 2018-19 to the Global TransPark near Kinston…
Elections & Public Integrity
A critique of the Obama Justice Department
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features former Bush administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey‘s take on his successors in the current federal government. I’m regretful to have to add…
Transportation
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
A new academic study suggests women are underrepresented in North Carolina’s elected and appointed government jobs. Becki Gray reacts to that study during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.…
Liberty
Tax-funded rail spur, costing $24 million, is unused at Global Transpark
Reporting for Carolina Journal, Don Carrington follows up on what happened to the deal with Spirit AeroSystems at the Global TransPark. When Gov. Mike Easley announced in May 2008 that…
Liberty
Asheville 3, Kinston 1, Charlotte 0
That would be the number of James Beard award semifinalist nominations for several communities across the state. (There were nine total, the rest were in the Triangle.) Not a good…