by WorldTribune Staff, October 12, 2023 One month after North Carolina implemented a 12-week abortion ban and required in-person counseling before the procedure the number of abortions performed in the Tar Heel state fell by 31 percent, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Republicans, who hold a supermajority in the state’s General Assembly, overrode a veto […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2020 Welcome to a red state with a Democrat governor. Amy Cooke is CEO of the conservative John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina. She is married to a retired police officer and makes no secret of what she thinks is going on in Raleigh and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 25, 2020 President Donald Trump on Monday warned that he could pull the Republican National Convention from North Carolina if the state’s Democrat governor won’t guarantee the GOP will be allowed “full attendance” at the event. In a series of tweets, Trump noted that Gov. Roy Cooper is in “Shutdown mood […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 17, 2020 A federal judge on Saturday blocked Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s coronavirus lockdown order which essentially prohibited most churches from holding indoor services. Judge James C. Dever III made the ruling days after two Baptist churches, a minister and a Christian revival group filed a federal lawsuit seeking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 30, 2020 Even as they meet the criteria for reopening, and amid growing evidence that the coronavirus is far less deadly than politicians and the major media claim, Democratic governors have refused to lift, and some have even extended, the lockdowns they have imposed on their citizens. In response, prominent columnists […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2020 A North Carolina business owner, in a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper, appealed to the governor to lift the coronavirus quarantine that the business owner says is devastating the state. Bob Luddy, president and founder of CaptiveAire commercial ventilation technologies, made the appeal in a letter published by The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 6, 2019 North Carolina Democrats were in a celebratory mood after they successfully staved off an effort by Republicans to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the GOP-led State Assembly’s born alive abortion legislation. The legislation would have required medical professionals to care for newborns who survive an abortion and grant […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2019 The politically unaffiliated director of the North Carolina Board of Elections has been removed and replaced by a partisan Democrat, state Republican lawmakers say. Kim Strach, who has led the elections board since 2013, will be replaced by Karen Brinson Bell. Brinson Bell currently works for the Ranked Choice […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 18, 2019 North Carolina’s Democratic governor has vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled legislature which would have required doctors to provide the same medical care to a baby that survives an abortion as they give to any other newborn. The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors’ Protection Act”, Senate Bill 359, was vetoed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2018 North Carolina Republicans have vowed to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a state voter ID bill before the current legislative sessions ends and they lose their super-majority. A referendum calling for the state’s constitution to add an amendment requiring in-person voter photo ID was approved last month with […]
