by WorldTribune Staff, October 31, 2017 The public has lost confidence in the NCAA after the college sports governing body’s decision not to punish the University of North Carolina after an investigation into academic fraud at the Chapel Hill institution, NCAA President Mark Emmert said on Oct. 30. The fraud investigation involved 18 years of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2017 A growing socialist presence in Asheville, North Carolina “became clear” recently “when a full third of the candidate field heading into the Oct. 10 city council primary self-identified as socialists,” according to a report by Asheville Unreported. The revelations were made at a candidate forum sponsored by the Asheville […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 Did March Madness just surrender to September hysteria? On the same day President Donald Trump rescinded an invitation to NBA champion Golden State Warriors’ point guard Stephen Curry, a team spokesman for the University of North Carolina’s NCAA championship-winning men’s basketball team said the team won’t be making the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2017 North Carolina is hoping that a new budget initiative with enhanced incentives for businesses will entice Amazon to choose the Tar Heel state as the location for its second headquarters. Earlier this month, Seattle-based Amazon said it would spend $5 billion in construction and hire up to 50,000 high-paying […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — Taiwan’s socio/economic success story is world renowned. Yet an unfortunate byproduct of Taiwan’s rapid industrial development from the 1960’s through 1980’s involved considerable amounts of air and water pollution. Taiwan’s next challenge strives to create a cleaner environment by widespread policies of going green. In […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2017 A North Carolina resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the destruction of voting records from the 2016 election. David W. Goetze, a retired Army major with the Military Police Corps, filed the suit against Gov. Roy Cooper in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, asking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2017 Three activists with ties to the communist Workers World Party have been arrested and charged with felonies for their roles in the Aug. 15 toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina. Takiyah Thompson, a student at North Carolina Central University, was charged with two felonies related to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2017 North Carolina’s legislature has passed a campus freedom of expression bill that will prevent college administrators from disinviting speakers some on campus find objectionable and disciplines those who “shut down” the speech of others. The Restore Campus Free Speech Act passed the NC House 80-31 with 10 Democrats voting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2017 A panel of three federal judges has ordered the North Carolina legislature to redraw 28 of the state’s 170 General Assembly districts by Sept. 1. The ruling on July 31 did not order special elections, which state Democrats had pushed for. The federal court said last year the 28 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 27, 2017 Pained to see Republicans routinely overriding Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes, Democrats in North Carolina are hoping redrawn districts will enable them to knock down the GOP’s super-majority. A federal court ruled that 28 North Carolina House and Senate districts are illegally race-based. That ruling was upheld earlier this year […]
