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Before the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587 May 19, 2020 Concerning: Public Hearing to receive public comment on the financing of Fiber Infrastructure Construction…
Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons). Districts and…
In “Several School Systems Rebel Against NC Calendar Law By Opening Early,” Ann Doss Helms has the scoop. North Carolina’s school calendar law mandates that public schools open “no earlier…
The John Locke Foundation is continuing to start important conversations in North Carolina. In April of this year, The Wilson Times published an opinion piece written by JLF’s Jon Sanders…
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal: More than 500,000 N.C. students won’t be in class May 1 as school districts across the state close so teachers can attend a planned…
Carolina Journal reports on bills designed to decrease government’s role in rural broadband: North Carolina for many years has been a battleground over government-backed broadband services. The issue seemed to…
Charlotte Area Transit System has scrapped plans to tunnel under uptown in order to expand the city’s light rail line: Uptown is the densest part of the city, and an…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction released estimates for the distribution of $100 million in lottery funds for school facilities. Charter schools are not entitled to lottery funds for this…
Interesting to see Davidson Mayor Rusty Knox weigh in on House Bill 514, which would allow suburban Charlotte cities to create their own charter schools: “This has almost become a…
On May 8, Salisbury voters overwhelmingly agreed on a resolution to lease the city’s Fibrant broadband system to a private company. The move to lease Fibrant to Hotwire Communications, approved…
Excellent story by Carolina Journal’s Dan Way about the tensions and conflicts that occur in some rural areas when some landowners want to lease their property to be used as…
Under the headline, “NC family’s cross-dressing crime caper foiled by burning dress,” the Charlotte Observer reports that: A plan to rob a Mooresville gas station unraveled this week after deputies realized the robber…