Six counties seek higher sales taxes
After we posted a summary last week on sales tax referenda in four counties (Chatham, Forsyth, Madison, and Wayne), a citizen in Alamance County alerted us that a sales tax…
After we posted a summary last week on sales tax referenda in four counties (Chatham, Forsyth, Madison, and Wayne), a citizen in Alamance County alerted us that a sales tax…
Carolina Journal’s Lindsay Marchello reports: Carver Heights Elementary in Goldsboro might be the next school to join the Innovative School District if the State Board of Education approves the recommendation.…
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online that a Wayne County school has been chosen to join the state’s Innovation School District. Andy Taylor’s Daily Journal reminds politicians that they…
Katherine Timpf writes for National Review Online about one N.C. story that has inspired multiple complaints in the wake of Hurricane Florence. A Wayne County, N.C., woman is facing more…
If you were a pet owner fleeing the flood and seeking somewhere safe for your pets, is this the outcome you would want?
What you may have missed in the craziness of yesterday’s election and this morning’s post-mortem is that there were 80 local referenda held across North Carolina. The results were mostly…
This week I read something that struck me as odd. The Department of Commerce announced that U-Play, a Chinese company, had decided to build a plant in Wayne County. Commerce…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a portion of a trial court’s ruling and favored Brunswick County Judge Ola Lewis in her libel suit…
WRAL has mug shots for the 19 people arrested at yesterday’s Wake County school board meeting. The site also provides addresses for 16 of them. Nancy Petty, pastor at Pullen…
It’s one thing — one ridiculously stupid, ignorant, slanderous, though eminently predictable thing — for the Angry Left and the NC NAACP to react to the Wake County school board…
Former high school football coach (?) Ray Durham has been chosen by Governor Easley to represent the 2nd Education District (Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow,…
Voters in more than 20 counties will also decide next week whether to grant their county commissioners permission to raise local sales or land-transfer taxes. JLF Vice President for Outreach…