county in North Carolina, United States
As part of the John Locke Foundation’s NC250: Freedom’s Vanguard initiative, this essay contest invited students, scholars, historians, and writers to explore North Carolina’s pivotal role in the American Revolution…
On August 17, I visited Old Fort, North Carolina, for a commemorative event at Davidson’s Fort. The Revolutionary War–era reconstructed fort, complete with log stockade and blockhouse, conjured up boyhood…
A concerned citizen forwarded an email to me earlier this week reporting that the Rowan County Board of Elections (BOE) office in Salisbury was left unlocked on the morning of…
November 28, 1814 | Johnston Blakely was promoted to captain for his naval conquests during the War of 1812. According to the North Carolina History Project, “Blakely never enjoyed the fame that he for so…
Andrew Dunn reports for Carolina Journal Online on one Rowan County community’s fight against a large-scale solar farm. A new CJ Opinion highlights Republican N.C. Supreme Court justices’ concerns about…
A coalition of conservative and election integrity groups, NC-Election, have started a petition drive to get the North Carolina General Assembly to fund a “full forensic audit of the 2020…
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…
Date of Committee Meeting: Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 10:00 AM The Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform met on January 31st. As a reminder, the task force is charged…
Sitting en banc in Lund v. Rowan County, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overruled a previous decision by a three judge panel. The Court found that: For years on end,…
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…
View in your browser. 1. Economic concept of crowding out explains how government money to Planned Parenthood funds abortions Regardless of how one feels about abortion or Planned Parenthood generally,…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s ruling that the Rowan County town of China Grove owes a developer more than $18,000 in…