NC lawmakers consider a full slate of public school waivers with coronavirus closures set to linger into mid-May.
President Trump may be suggesting some states could reopen May 1, but North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper wouldn’t commit to such a speedy timetable on Wednesday.
Whatever you might have thought of Richard Burr—party-line voter, NRA titan, a D.C. insider's insider—you might not have thought of the NC Republican as an ethical quandary waiting to happen.
It turns out that all it takes to make states’ rights devotees out of the liberals is Donald Trump.
Donald Trump did not create the novel coronavirus. But the coronavirus belongs to him now.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper says officials “just don’t know” yet if the state will need to extend its stay-at-home order into May to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lifting social distancing policies at the end of April could have disastrous impacts for North Carolina, potentially tripling infections and doubling the risk of overloading hospitals, health leaders told reporters Monday.
With the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering K-12 schools across North Carolina, state leaders will soon consider ways to make up weeks of lost instruction time. But tourism advocates aren’t waiting to make their case for maintaining students’ traditional summer break.
North Carolina is home to more than 46,000 farms, but the pandemic has forced farmers to adjust to disappearing restaurant and wholesale accounts, shuttered farmers’ markets or strict rules for selling to customers.
Our winter of solitude began long before anyone had ever heard of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, social distancing, or “flattening the curve.”
