N.C. House passes resolution supporting Ukraine, adjourns marathon session
The N.C. House on Thursday passed a resolution supporting Ukraine before following the Senate’s lead and voting to adjourn its long-running session.
News and Opinion
OPINION: Don’t call it the gypsy moth and other outrageous stories
Below are a few of the interesting and outrageous stories that caught my attention during the week. Sadly, there's not enough time to highlight all of them.
NC Senate fails to override mask veto, votes for adjournment
The N.C. Senate voted Wednesday evening to adjourn the longest long session of the legislature in decades, effective March 10. The adjournment resolution calls to reconvene the state legislature on April 4, then gavel out until May 4. The beginning of the short session would officially begin on May 18.
Biden, Lawmakers agree to cut off Russian oil but not how to replace it
Even though gas prices now surpass $5 a gallon in many areas of the country, $4.13 in North Carolina, leaders from both sides of the aisle agree it's time to cut off Russian oil.
Gov. Cooper Refuses to End State of Emergency After Two Years
For 730 days, Gov. Roy Cooper has kept North Carolina in a “state of emergency” even as COVID-19 restrictions and guidelines have disappeared.
OPINION: Bludgeoning the poor with higher gas prices
Many ideologues focus on the politics of higher gas prices and what it means for the November midterm elections. Yet, poorer North Carolinians and Americans across the country are bludgeoned by rising energy costs, particularly today’s sticker shock at the gas pump.
Governor Cooper grants clemency former Juveniles when crimes committed
Governor Cooper has commuted the sentences of three people who were convicted for crimes committed when they were teenagers. The commutations follow an intensive review of their cases, including the length of their sentences, their records in prison, and their readiness to succeed outside of prison.
Letter to the editor: Electoral Count Act
The recent efforts by a bipartisan group of senators to pass updates to the Electoral Count Act (ECA) have caught the attention of media across the country, and rightly so. The 135-year-old ECA, as it currently stands, is unconstitutional, complex, and in desperate need of reform.
Appeals Court considers lawsuit challenging Cooper team’s 2020 racetrack shutdown
Two years after Gov. Roy Cooper's administration shut down an Alamance County racetrack during the height of the COVID-19 scare, the track's owners continue a legal fight against the state.
Dems says too many private, homeschool parents on Truitt’s advisory board
Democratic members of the N.C. State Board of Education have their sights set on Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt, saying Truitt was putting too many parents from schools of choice on a new advisory committee.
Property rights are worth defending
There’s always a cost to protecting property rights. No rational person has ever suggested otherwise. In free societies that place a high value on the individual right to own and control private property, it’s more expensive for governments to build roads or public facilities.
OPINION: Mr. President, read the room
Throughout the course of history, we’ve learned that whenever tyranny rears its ugly head, an uprising of freedom will face it down. Our constitutional republic is built upon freedom, and every free nation across the world is as well. Thousands of miles away in Europe, freedom is facing an onslaught, and the whole world is bearing witness.