The NC Chamber isn’t joining its national counterpart in condemning the federal government’s prospective deployment of new tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China. “Like the rest of the country, our membership includes varying perspectives on tariffs,” NC Chamber President Gary Salamido said Monday. “One thing is certain though. People are the priority for employers and […]
Josh Boak, Rob Gillies & Fabiola Sánchez/The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s national guard to the border to address drug trafficking. Trump’s tariffs against Canada and […]
Ari Hawkins/Politico President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China may be illegal under the Constitution. But blocking the tariffs in court is likely to be difficult — and time-consuming. Trump announced Saturday he was levying 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and a 10 percent tariff on goods from […]
Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Bladen County wants its money back. The county gave Elizabethtown $100,000 in April 2023 to create a master plan for a mixed-use project at the town’s industrial park. Elizabethtown then opted to veer from the shared vision of the park and abandon its longstanding relationship with Bladen County’s Economic Development Commission […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Trump administration said last week that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award grant money for highways and new transit projects based, in part, on which communities have higher marriage and birth rates. That could impact Charlotte, which is seeking billions of federal dollars for new light rail and commuter rail […]
Ryan J. Foley, Jim Mustian & Michael Biesecker/The Associated Press The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe. Those fears materialized Wednesday night when an American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter, taking the lives of 67 people, including three soldiers […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) (Mountaineer The telephone at McElroy Oil began ringing off the hook about three days before the cold snap that rocked much of the country last month. As overnight temperatures neared the zero mark and daytime temps didn’t rise much above 15 degrees Fahrenheit, the calls didn’t stop. “We don’t know which end’s […]
Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio The pressure is mounting for Saint Augustine’s University to balance its finances. The private HBCU has $32 million in debt, an ongoing battle with the IRS, and an impending accreditation appeal hearing scheduled for the end of February. Today marks a self-imposed deadline that university leaders said they needed to secure a […]
Andy Olsen/Christianity Today When federal agents took her husband away, Kenia Colindres was fasting. It helped her listen for God, which she had been doing ever since she came to America. Fleeing gangs in 2022, Colindres tried to listen to God along the more than 2,000 miles her family traveled from the coast of Honduras […]
Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Whose job is it to protect local pets? State law is vague. Because of that, the implementation of animal control and other pet-related services is often left up to the discretion of local governments, Carolina Public Press has learned. Some counties have robust, well-funded departments that offer shelter and adoption services, […]
Taylor Knopf/NC Health News When someone is having a mental health crisis — whether they’re thinking about suicide, acting erratically or experiencing hallucinations — they frequently end up in a hospital emergency department, mostly because there are few places for them to go. If a medical provider determines that the patient is a danger to […]
The weekend’s other big news, of course, was President Trump’s declaration of economic warfare against Canada and Mexico. Trump invoked the Carter-era International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap 25% tariffs on most products from the two neighboring counties that will go into effect on Tuesday. His order singled out Canada, alleging that it has […]
As Senate leader Phil Berger expected, state House and Senate members have filed multiple bills that seek to undo in whole or in part the last session’s revocation of local-government downing authority. In the House, a group led by Rep. Jay Adams, R-Catawba, has introduced House Bill 24, which would outright repeal the relevant section […]
The N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency needs $217 million more from the General Assembly to finish the job of rebuilding homes Down East damaged or destroyed by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, its boss says. Testifying before a joint House-Senate oversight panel on Thursday, former Rep. Pryor Gibson said an appropriation on that scale would […]
Thursday’s hearing also gave the oversight subcommittee, the senators on it especially, its first chance to hear from Gov. Josh Stein’s point people on western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene. Gubernatorial adviser Jonathan Krebs and Commerce Department Deputy Secretary Stephanie McGarrah emphasized that the administration intends to do things differently from what was done […]
