Several Hundred NC Protesters, Rebuffing Social Distancing and Masks, Demand An End to Stay-At-Home Orders Amid COVID-19 Pandemic.
Hours after a few hundred gathered in NC’s capital to protest social distancing, Gov. Cooper promised specifics this week on COVID-19 orders.
"I don't think they would think (social distancing is) worse than the disease if they or someone in their family was was put on a ventilator or died."
COVID-19 has now killed 179 in North Carolina. Since last September, the flu has killed 161.
NC Dems unveiled millions in proposed spending on COVID-19 relief, including expanded unemployment benefits, public school cash and boosted absentee voting.
A recent poll found that a majority of Americans believe their state governors are responding to the coronavirus crisis more effectively than the national effort led by President Trump.
NC lawmakers consider a full slate of public school waivers with coronavirus closures set to linger into mid-May.
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.
Carole Baskin, one of the most controversial characters in Netflix’s enormously popular “Tiger King” docuseries, donated $1,000 to North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr.
It turns out that all it takes to make states’ rights devotees out of the liberals is Donald Trump.
