His posts on the Parkland school shooting mostly targeted a group of surviving students who had called for more gun control measures after a former student murdered 14 students and three staff members with an AR-15-style rifle.
Cooper’s 2023-2025 budget is titled, “First in Opportunity,” which builds on the state’s success and “once-in-a-generation” opportunity by investing in families, businesses, and communities across North Carolina.
Rep. Ken Fontenot (R-Wilson) compared gender-affirming care to the Tuskegee medical experiments of the 1930s and the sterilization of poor women in North Carolina in the 1960s.
While the measure sailed through two House committees with ease, it’s now doubtful that the bill will be passed this legislative session after the planned House floor vote on it was canceled.
Gov. Roy Cooper has stated that he will veto the harmful bill, and called upon Republican lawmakers who had campaigned to protect reproductive health to break from their party and uphold the veto.
In North Carolina, warm weather means it’s time for festival season throughout the state.
This world-class soccer tournament features 32 teams playing for a chance to win the top prize of $1 million dollars. The playing format is 7-on-7 soccer, so it will be a fast-paced event.
The number of children and teens under 18 who died from guns spiked by 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to the Pew Research Center.
According to National Park Service officials, the trash, made up of plastic, metal, paper, and textile fabric, began appearing on April 27 and was reported to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Sector North Carolina.
HB2 is still considered a “lingering socioeconomic shadow over North Carolina” and SB 631 “puts us on the path where we risk our No. 1 ranking as the state best to do business in,” said Sen. Jay Chaudhuri (D-Wake).