U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has mailed his annual holiday card. This year's card features a photo of Burr and his family in front of the Old Well on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.
"Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season," [...]
Oh goodness, so much to do before the snow comes and school closes early. So I’ll just hit it quick for now and get back later:
*Yours truly discusses taxpayer-funded elections in the aftermath of the Chapel Hill mayor’s race;
*Heaven forbid schools suspend unruly students;
*This week’s Rhino [...]
U.S. Rep. David Price says huge federal stimulus spending was necessary, but the growing national debt does give him pause.
Speaking at a congressional jobs roundtable this week, Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, said that with the country caught in the worst recession in memory, Congress had no [...]
The owner of a Chapel Hill hookah bar says he will defy the state’s new smoking ban that has ensnared his business but exempted other types of smoking establishments. Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, believes the ban is discriminatory. He will continue to sell hookahs and alcohol beginning Jan. [...]
Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss on Franklin Street, told me he believes the state’s impending ban on smoking in most restaurants and bars discriminates against his business. He plans to defy the ban when it takes effect January 2. Here is my Carolina Journal story on the subject. [...]
State Rep. Verla Insko plans to attend a White House reception next week that is being held to recognize state lawmakers working on health care reform.
Insko, a Chapel Hill Democrat, is one of 40 lawmakers participating in the White House State Legislators Working Group on Health [...]
PARTY OF THREE: Lexington lawyer Cal Cunningham jumped into the race for U.S. Senate, prompting sharp rebukes from the two other contenders already in the hunt. Cunningham, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Chapel Hill lawyer Kenneth Lewis seemed poised for a tough [...]
Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy has decided not to seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate next year.
Foy, 53, had been exploring a Senate bid for several months as he prepares to end his tenure as mayor of the college town, reports Rob Christensen.
He said his decision was [...]
The N&O reports:
The fatal shooting of a UNC Chapel Hill fraternity president was justified, Randolph County District Attorney Garland Yates said today.
In a news release, Yates said the Archdale police officer who shot and killed Courtland Smith in the early hours of Aug. 23 did so because he believed [...]
U.S. Rep. David Price said the public debate over American policy in Afghanistan has been too narrowly focused on troop levels.
Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, gave his perspective in a column that was published in The Charlotte Observer. Price recently led a delegation to Pakistan and [...]
Many college and university endowments have taken a hit from recent economic downturn. Locally, UNC – Chapel Hill lost 20 percent of its value or about $440 million in the last year.
Jon King, CEO of UNC Management Company, the entity that oversees UNC Chapel Hill’s investment funds, [...]
Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is leading other candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate by a wide margin.
Marshall is the choice of 42 percent of voters in a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling. Chapel Hill lawyer Kenneth Lewis has 7 percent and [...]
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees recently voted to raise undergraduate tuition for in-state students by 5.2 percent next year and fees by 5.5 percent.
The increase comes in the middle of the worst recession in 75 years. Families are struggling to pay the bills and keep their houses. [...]
Categorizing people based simply on their race is wrong, period. Here’s a great example of how silly things become — even in Chapel Hill, where the town’s liberal residents pride themselves on being the most enlightened among us.
Thanks to Augustus Cho for pointing out the folly. Cho ran unsuccessfully [...]
Kenneth Lewis, a Chapel Hill attorney and former Democratic campaign aide, spoke yesterday at UNC-Wilmington. If his message there was similar to his previous speeches around the state, Lewis sounded the usual notes. For example, in Salisbury:
Lewis called Washington “broken,” a system that runs on contributions from lobbyists [...]
U.S. Rep. David Price has returned from a week-long trip to the Middle East.
Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, led a congressional delegation with the House Democracy Assistance Commission, a bi-partisan group that mentors new democracies around the world, Barb Barrett reports.
The group was in Lebanon when [...]
The Herald-Sun is reporting today on changes to the Citizen-Soldier Support Program at UNC Chapel Hill.
Carolina Journal readers know that reporter David Bass has been on this story since August, when an internal review showed huge problems with the program. His latest story ran Friday. As [...]
I was lucky enough to meet Kenneth Lewis this morning for a cup of coffee. We talked for an hour, sitting at the corner table at 3 Cups in Chapel Hill. I'll report more on our conversation later in the week, but I do want to tell this' [...]
Over at UNC Chapel Hill, students say the campus medical facility for undergraduates is old and inconveniently located. They want a new one – until they’re told they need to pay for it by raising student fees, or by finding private funds. Suddenly, it may not be such a [...]
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, a Chapel Hill Democrat, has joined the ranks of those calling for an investigation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's recent mailing.
Just weeks after raising its premiums, the insurer mailed flyers that encouraged recipients to send the attached postcard to [...]
