On Monday, Governor Roy Cooper and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell met with U.S. Northern Command Commander General Gregory Guillot and Dual Status Commander Brigadier General Wes Morrison in Western North Carolina. More than 2,500 Soldiers and Airmen are now working in Western North Carolina with approximately 500 more on their way.
Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday that he believed Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s presence on the ballot could hurt former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning the battleground state this November.
The state’s seasonally adjusted August 2024 unemployment rate was 3.8 percent, increasing 0.1 of a percentage point from July’s revised rate. The national rate decreased 0.1 of a percentage point to 4.2 percent.
Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) released a statement after supporting legislation that covers the short-term funding gap in veterans benefits created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) failure to properly estimate how many dollars were necessary to cover benefits through the fiscal year.
Washington, D.C. — Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) has joined a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris regarding her egregious mismanagement of federal broadband initiatives.
RALEIGH — Brace yourself. The arrival of Labor Day traditionally begins the homestretch of electoral campaigns. You may well join millions of fellow voters in utter exhaustion with the politics of 2024. But I promise you the candidates and their surrogates are raring to run this final leg of the race.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed suit Friday to have his name removed from North Carolina’s election ballot. Kennedy went to court a day after the State Board of Elections voted 3-2 to reject his request to drop his name from the list of presidential candidates.
For years, the Carolina Journal has been following Democratic Party efforts to keep third parties off the ballot. The Democrat strategy makes some sense practically, since the fewer left-of-center options there are, the more Democrats can dominate that voter pool. But it was always a strategy with some risks.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper set the stage Thursday night to introduce Vice President Kamala Harris before she accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago.
RALEIGH — Before the United States had a Congress, North Carolina had a Congress — and this week marks its 250th birthday.
Governor Roy Cooper joined United States Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to announce new funding through the Department of Energy to enhance North Carolina’s electrical grid and increase capacity for renewable energy storage.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) released a statement after the death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran:
