Disaster recovery isn’t about politics, and it certainly isn’t about your bottom line. It’s about the victims who have lost possessions, small businesses, homes, loved ones. If you understood Western North Carolina or spent any time here at all, you might understand that.
These amendments would shift more of the cost of vital services onto families and individuals through fees, if those services survive at all. Corporations would be the only real winners.
Mr. Whatley had the opportunity to do incredible things for this region, and actually have something to campaign on worth my time. Why should we think he’ll do anything more as a Senator if he’s done little with the incredible opportunity he was given?
Varios testigos dijeron a Siembra NC que conductores latinos fueron interrogados sobre su lugar de nacimiento y que algunas personas que no pudieron presentar una identificación estatal fueron arrestadas.
Trump personally appointed Whatley to the FEMA Review Council as the ‘Hurricane Recovery Czar’, tasked with leading recovery efforts in Western North Carolina. He has since proven to be a failure in every possible way.
Reporters reveal a strikingly small public record for someone President Donald Trump tapped in January 2025 to help oversee the federal response and “make sure everything goes well” with Helene recovery.
Las comunidades latinas están presentes en áreas urbanas y rurales y contribuyen a la economía y al tejido social de Carolina del Norte a través de una amplia variedad de trabajos, negocios, organizaciones y proyectos comunitarios.
According to the report, “Duke Energy fails across all three scoring categories; it is keeping coal online, planning a massive buildout of new gas capacity, and not building nearly enough clean energy. At the same time, it is backtracking on emissions reductions commitments and proposing new rate hikes.”
Common Cause has launched the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection effort that will mobilize thousands of trained volunteers and experts across the country to help voters navigate the voting process, including casting their ballots.
The analysis from Carolina Forward allows you to see for yourself. Select your county, and see who benefits and who loses. In Wake County, for example, Duke Energy is the largest benefactor while funding for hundreds of teachers, paramedics, and sheriff’s deputies would be at stake.