A North Carolina retirees’ civil rights advocacy group didn’t have standing to challenge the state’s requirement that voters live in their voting precinct 30 days prior to an election in order to vote, a federal court said. The Alliance for Retired Americans said that the requirement violated Section 202 of the Voting Rights Act and […]
A decade ago, Jordan Hennessy was a 19-year-old state legislative aide making roughly $33,000 a year in the office of a Republican state senator representing Dare County. At 29, Hennessy now helps run two distinctly different businesses that were created just as lawmakers in the Republican-dominated state legislature awarded a combined $50 million in taxpayer […]
The TCPA remains the most dangerous statute out there and the biggest cash cow in American history for the plaintiff’s bar. And it isn’t slowing down as news of another 7 figure settlement is out today. A Blue Cross entity in North Carolina just agreed to pay $1.6MM along with Change Healthcare who apparently made […]
No dog parks. No golf. No soccer or football. No child care centers, apartments or homes. No community gardens unless they’re in raised beds. The list of forbidden uses on 10 contaminated acres containing 46,000 tons of coal ash in Chapel Hill is nearly as long as what is allowed: offices, stores, municipal services, walking […]
A new campaign is launching to help give North Carolina public schools a boost. Recently the North Carolina School Boards Association has announced a new campaign called “Public Education Does the Public Good”. The campaign aims to highlight that a healthy public-school benefit everyone and even has an animated video. “Thriving public schools uplift society […]
In a state expected to help decide the presidency, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did little to quell speculation on President Biden’s path forward as the Democratic nominee to a room full of North Carolina Democrats on Saturday. Pelosi addressed more than 900 people at the North Carolina Democratic Party fundraiser in Raleigh — an […]
The North Carolina State Board of Elections won’t have data on new party registrations for “We the People” until mid-August, but it’s already clear the new political party’s certification heightens the tumult across the political landscape. The nation is grappling with the horror of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Democrats are riven […]
With Election Day approaching, North Carolina has a problem. The state is rapidly losing county elections directors. In the past five years, the state says North Carolina’s 100 counties have seen 61 election director changes. That turnover could have an impact on voters when they go to cast their ballots. A Carolina Public Press investigation […]
North Carolina has a large delegation at the Republican National Convention this week. Among the group of 74 officially casting their votes for Donald Trump as president is a Wake County teenager. Cardinal Gibbons High School student Kelcey Shull, 17, is the youngest North Carolina delegate. Cardinal Gibbons High School is a private Catholic high […]
Less than a week after accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump will hold a rally Wednesday in Charlotte. Trump, who chose Ohio Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate, will speak at 6 p.m. at Bojangles Coliseum. The rally will take place just 11 days since an […]
A new proposal could bring a highly anticipated sports complex to Eastland Yards with a lower price tag. The new proposal for the 29-acre complex would come with an indoor sports center and six full-sized, multipurpose outdoor fields. Several plans for the old Eastland Mall site have fallen by the wayside, but could a $67 […]
North Carolina State University and a former grad student end employee have resolved a legal dispute related to the Poe Hall shutdown, according to a court filing Friday. NCSU has asked the state Supreme Court to lift a stay in the case. That action would allow a trial judge to throw out an earlier ruling […]
UNC System president Peter Hans did not waste any time in appointing the committee that will recommend a replacement for NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson. Woodson, the longest serving chancellor in the University of North Carolina System, announced on Thursday that he will retire at the end of June of 2025 after 15 years leading […]
CrowdStrike experienced a widespread data outage on Thursday, affecting thousands of its clients globally. Among them, media, transportation, healthcare, and government facilities across North Carolina. Currently, North Carolina DMV offices are closed due to the outage, and flight delays are plaguing airports nationwide. “NC Ports’ systems are experiencing issues due to the global IT outages,” […]
For the third straight year, small businesses had a record year working for the N.C. Department of Transportation. NCDOT awarded nearly $65.4 million to small business enterprises (SBEs) through contracts under $1 million in the 2024 fiscal year, generating a 35% increase over the previous record of about $48.4 million in 2023 and double the […]
