After two days of riots across North Carolina, when Ed Nicely arrived to open Ed’s Gun Shop in the Moore County town of Vass there was already a line stretching into his parking ... Keep Reading
Alarm bells going off for public school parents, as school administrators consider life altering back to school plans
Catherine Truitt, a senior advisor on education during Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration and current candidate for state superintendent of public instruction, was addressing an ... Keep Reading
Limited Phase 1 opening little comfort for North Carolina’s plummeting tourism industry
For Ray Pickett, May was supposed to be a strong month at the Blowing Rock Inn, which he and his wife own and manage. With spring in the air, flowers blooming along with ... Keep Reading
In North Carolina’s seafood capital, every lost dinner hour brings sorrow, uncertainty
Just 30 minutes from the tourist mecca of Myrtle Beach, and touching the South Carolina state line, Calabash, N.C. does not have restaurants. It is restaurants. Calabash, ... Keep Reading
Reaction pours in after Cooper’s announcement delaying North Carolina’s reopening
Thursday April 23, Gov. Roy Cooper extended North Carolina’s economic shutdown until at least May 9. He further announced North Carolina would take a slow phased-in approach of ... Keep Reading
Cooper must take steps to get North Carolina moving by April 30
There is enormous pressure for Gov. Cooper to loosen North Carolina’s economic lockdown and get people back to work while protecting public health. The scientific data that led to ... Keep Reading
Grassroots uprising causes New Hanover County to back off extreme virus measures
Backlash shows limits of what citizens will tolerate during crisis The week before Easter in New Hanover County, you could not buy school supplies or new underwear, walk on the ... Keep Reading
Aggressive police action blocking landowners from accessing property headed to federal court
Suit comes after Civitas exposed harsh treatment of non-resident homeowners during virus crisis People who own homes and pay property taxes on the Outer Banks but are permanent ... Keep Reading
Is the state-run lottery essential business?
With massive unemployment forced on the people of North Carolina by government decree, the State should sharply curtail and preferably halt its state run gambling ... Keep Reading
Outer Banks residents push emergency powers too far: taxpayers and property owners also have rights
One could argue that Ed Woodhouse has as much as a right to claim the Outer Banks and Dare and Currituck Counties as his own. He grew up with my father, Wilson Woodhouse, in a ... Keep Reading
