Its’s been two years now since Hurricane-turned-Tropical Storm-Helene devastated much of our state and we’ll check in on where things stand in a two-part conversation with the Director of the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina, Matt Calabria
Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan National Governors Association for the first time in over a decade updated its internal principles on federalism — the system of power sharing between Washington, D.C., and the states.
Western North Carolina marks two years after Helene caused $60 billion in damages. Communities are pulling together, but progress remains slow.
The Trump administration Thursday made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow for rapid third-country deportations of noncitizens to continue, after an appeals court blocked the policy last week.
Local television and social media are where most North Carolina voters get their political and government news, according to a poll released Friday. No other source reached more than 17% of voters.
If childcare workers can’t afford care for their own children, it becomes harder for centers to maintain the workforce they need.
The White House, however, didn’t appear to be following the ruling as of 10 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, when attorneys representing the news organizations filed a brief asking the court to hold a videoconference meeting as soon as possible.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that millions were wasted because DHS began expanding detention operations without putting a plan in place to meet U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s goal of detaining up to 100,000 immigrants.
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the chair of the Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said the point of the hearing was to find out “what is going on with the expanding surveillance network that appears to be going coast to coast in this country.”
NC voters will be asked to consider a constitutional amendment requiring state lawmakers to pass laws limiting local property tax increases.