By Andrew Dunn Raleigh, NC – Stay home. Wear a mask at all times. Don’t interact with anyone outside your household. If you do, get tested for COVID-19, N.C. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Mandy Cohen has directed…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – North Carolina won’t fully open anytime soon. The governor’s unilaterally imposed curfews and shutdowns will continue for three more weeks. Dr. Mandy Cohen piled on Wednesday, Jan. 6. The head of North Carolina’s Department…
By Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper is walking back reopening with a new stay-at-home order, starting Friday, Dec. 11, when North Carolina effectively shuts down from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Cooper’s order will require nonessential businesses…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper in a new executive order is encouraging local authorities to pursue criminal and civil penalties against businesses that fail to uphold mask and distancing requirements. The order, which runs through December…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – North Carolina has an opportunity. Meaning North Carolina as a whole, but also as a sum of its complex and diverse parts. Gov. Roy Cooper has taken much from us, decisions made and edicts…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper says he won’t take North Carolina backward. He says he isn’t ready to levy another lockdown because of COVID-19. Not yet, anyway. Cooper appears to be leaning toward promoting individual responsibility…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Races filling the N.C. ballot were won or lost by the thinnest of margins. With a few exceptions, races — statewide and national — stayed excruciatingly close days after election night. Just as polls…
By Jon Sanders Raleigh, NC – Are Gov. Cooper’s lockdowns, business shutdowns and partial shutdowns, social-distancing policies, gathering bans, and myriad other restrictions on people, places, and events having devastating health effects on North Carolinians? Put another way: Does the…
By Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – Johnnie Carswell won’t be a tool for Gov. Roy Cooper’s shutdowns. He had words for Dr. Mandy Cohen, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, too. Cohen last week wrote 36 counties asking…
By Jon Sanders Raleigh, NC – On October 14 the North State Journal featured a noteworthy article by Dr. S. Stanley Young, Ph.D. Young is an applied statistician, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and AAAS, and Director of…