NC Likely Won’t Have A New Budget Until At Least April, As Tax Cut Impasse Continues
WUNC – North Carolina could remain without a new budget until at least April. Lawmakers had scheduled their first session of 2026 this week but aren’t planning to hold any votes. North Carolina is the only legislature in the country […]
Read MoreAsheville, Raleigh Face Lawmaker Questions Over DEI Practices
By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Last Wednesday, North Carolina House lawmakers opened the new legislative year with a contentious first meeting of the House Select Committee on Government Efficiency, focusing heavily on DEI policies in Asheville, Buncombe County and the […]
Read MoreMillions of Americans Are Expected To Drop Their Current Affordable Care Act Plans And They’re Looking For A Plan B
KFF NEWS – It’s feeding time for the animals on this property outside Nashville, Tennessee. An albino raccoon named Cricket reaches through the wires of its cage to grab an animal cracker, an appetizer treat right before the evening meal. […]
Read MoreFormer St. Aug Board Chairs’ Exodus
By Cash Michaels Contributing Writer A Raleigh television station has reported that two former chairmen of beleaguered St. Augustine’s University (SAU) in Raleigh are no longer members of the trustees board of the small historically black Episcopalian institution, as a […]
Read MoreMarine Seeks Justice Over Camp Lejeune Water Contamination
PRE News & Ideas- More than three years after lawmakers gave the go-ahead to people sickened by decades of toxic drinking water aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville to sue the federal government for illnesses caused by the […]
Read MoreJ.W. Ligon Reno Listening Session Held
By Karl Cameron Special To The Carolinian The J.W. Ligon Magnet Middle School Renovation Listening Session set for Jan. 8, 2026 came off as planned at the school’s auditorium, beginning promptly at 6:00 p.m. Wake Public School Superintendent, Dr. Robert […]
Read MoreSafeSport Center Turns To Olympic Gold Medalist Mosley As New CEO
DENVER (AP) – The U.S. Center for SafeSport announced Benita Fitzgerald Mosley as its new CEO on Tuesday, placing the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in charge of rebooting an agency that has been plagued with problems over most of its […]
Read MoreOwen Lun West Smith: AME Zion Leader and U.S. Diplomat
By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Owen Lun West Smith was born into slavery on May 18, 1851, in Giddensville, Sampson County, North Carolina. At the age of at most 14 he initially followed the Confederate Army as a personal servant. […]
Read MoreCivics Class Could Stage A Comeback In Some North Carolina Classrooms
Carolina Public Press – When Southeast Middle School social studies teacher Eric Shock’s eighth-graders walked into class one day last semester, they noticed a piece of paper on the board. It was a bill being considered by the North Carolina General […]
Read MoreReal-Time Translation Devices Go Mainstream
By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer There are more than 67 million people in the U.S. who speak a language other than English at home, and at least 38% report speaking English less than very well. With over 500 languages tracked […]
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