Donna Martinez

I was talking to a friend in another state who lives about 50 miles from a nuclear plant. She told me about some of her co-workers who proudly wear the badge of ‘environmentalist,’ but are staunchly anti-nuclear power. That made both of us laugh, as it should anyone who cares…

State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell is urging the General Assembly to give municipalities the ability to delay their local elections. But, as Locke’s Andy Jackson explains, lawmakers have a better solution to Brinson Bell’s concern about Census Bureau data. Their solution is one that doesn’t threaten…

Late Wednesday morning, N.C. Senate leadership announced this in a news release: If Gov. Cooper doesn’t withdraw…

North Carolina Senate Republicans issued the following news release late this morning. Why the N.C. Senate Will Reject Gov. Cooper’s Nomination to Lead the Dept. of Environmental Quality…

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I paid a lot of attention to the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci. He’s the federal government’s expert on infectious diseases, after all. But as time went on it became clear that Dr. Fauci was just one voice in a sea of experts.

New Bern eye surgeon’s suit says law blocks him from providing lower-cost service RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation has filed an amicus brief in Singleton v. NC DHHS, the lawsuit filed against the State of North Carolina by New Bern eye surgeon Dr. Jay Singleton. The brief…

Is it just another top-down mandate on teachers from state Republicans, or is House Bill 755 a plan to give parents more information about what their kids are being taught, and by whom? That’s the heart of the debate over this academic transparency bill. Locke’s Terry Stoops, a former…

Score one for the folks like me who are tired of ‘woke’ leftist politics invading everything from soda to baseball. Andrew Dunn reports for Carolina Journal on the Surry County commission’s 3-to-2 vote to tell Coke they’ve had enough. Surry County commissioners are pushing back against major corporations…