As Chairman of the Anson County Board of Commissioners, I take seriously my responsibility to protect the individual liberties of our communities here and across North Carolina. This responsibility includes ensuring citizens have unfettered access to the public information that directly affects their lives and livelihoods.
North Carolina’s outgoing Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson has filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN and musician Louis Love Money. The lawsuit, initially filed in Wake County Superior Court, is now the subject of a motion by CNN to transfer it to federal court.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina plan to transfer authority over the state’s Board of Elections to the state auditor’s office, a move that will place administration and appointment of its members under GOP purview.
The North Carolina House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon overrode Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of House Bill 10 — a bill that would boost funding for the state’s private school voucher program by more than $2 billion over the next decade. The vote was 72-44.
Raleigh, N.C. - The state’s seasonally adjusted October 2024 unemployment rate was 3.7 percent, decreasing 0.1 of a percentage point from September’s revised rate. The national rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent.
On November 5th, voters in three states rejected private school voucher measures on their ballots. A majority (58 percent) of voters in Nebraska chose to repeal a recently passed voucher law
Preliminary results from the North Carolina 2024 General Election show a strong voter turnout, with 67.01% of registered voters casting ballots. As of 11:42 p.m. on election night, 92.36% of precincts (2,455 out of 2,658) have reported results, reflecting over 5.2 million votes.
As elected Republicans serving North Carolina, we are compelled to speak out against a proposal that could undermine one of the core tenets of our democracy: the people’s right to vote. Recent comments from Rep. Andy Harris, head of the House Freedom Caucus, suggesting that North Carolina’s legislature should consider awarding its electoral votes to Donald Trump before the votes are even counted, are troubling and antithetical to conservative principles.
WASHINGTON, N.C. — Tempers were rising among the political faithful on Market Street. Local leaders with the Beaufort County Democratic Party had assembled on the sidewalk outside Shep’s Grill, holding signs that say “VOTE BLUE” and “Josh Stein for Governor.”
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's Republican lieutenant governor and gubernatorial nominee, Mark Robinson, filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN on Tuesday, seeking $50 million in damages. The lawsuit concerns a CNN report that linked Robinson to racist and sexually explicit comments on a pornographic website between 2008 and 2012.
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, the Republican nominee for North Carolina attorney general, is suing the campaign of his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson, alleging defamation based on a campaign "push poll" and a partisan media article.
As the former Executive Director of the NCGOP and a proud conservative, I have always believed in the values of freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity. Here in North Carolina, we’ve long understood that to secure our future, we need to focus on policies that drive job creation, economic growth, and responsible stewardship of our natural resources.
