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Daily Update on Roy Cooper’s inmate releases, new crimes, and the deadly cost of soft‑on‑crime “reform” in North Carolina.

  May 08, 2026

 

 

 

 

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Wilmington weighs a 14.3% property tax hike to fund city services, wages and transit, sparking a debate over government size and who should pay the bill.

  May 07, 2026

 

 

 

 

 

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Fairfax released an illegal immigrant accused of child rape. NC Democrats running statewide won't condemn it. What that means for your vote.

  May 06, 2026

 

 

 

 

 

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Breaking down radical professor Mohamed Abdou, Hamas sympathy on campus, and why parents must rethink sending kids to today’s universities.

  May 04, 2026

 

 

 

 

 

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New Hanover parents launch Operation May Day to back GOP school board members standing up to NCAE union bullies and putting kids over politics.

  April 23, 2026