by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2018 Flush with cash from disgruntled anti-Trumpers, the ACLU targeted sheriff’s races in North Carolina in 2018 “as a way to thwart immigration enforcement,” a columnist wrote. With major help from local ad buys from the ACLU, Garry McFadden won the race for sheriff in Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2018 Amid an ongoing voter fraud controversy, North Carolina State Board of Elections Chairman Andy Penry announced his resignation from the position on Dec. 1. The board of elections had announced on Nov. 30 that it had again declined to certify Republican Mark Harris’ apparent victory in the Nov. 6 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2018 North Carolina State University announced that it will shut down its Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute by June of next year. There are more than 100 Confucius Institutes on U.S. college campuses. The institutes teach a Chinese Communist Party-approved version of Chinese culture and history which ignores concerns over human […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 25, 2018 The personal finance website WalletHub recently released its rankings for the worst big cities in the United States. Of the 150 cities ranked, 15 of the bottom 16 are currently run by Democrats and have been for decades. “Democrats who’ve run these cities cling to the notion that government […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 23, 2018 Saying that his county has become a drug hub fueled by Mexican cartels, a North Carolina sheriff announced plans for the county to re-engage with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a report said. Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson told county commissioners on Nov. 19 that he is rejoining the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2018 Shifting demographics have relegated Republicans to the endangered species list in metropolitan areas in red states. One notable example is Charlotte, North Carolina. “The ground is shifting beneath” urban Republicans, Eric Heberlig, a political scientist at UNC Charlotte told the Charlotte Observer. Statewide, the North Carolina Democratic Party broke […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2018 Immigration activists are pushing the newly-elected sheriff in Wake County, North Carolina to follow through on his vow to end the county’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Gerald Baker, a Democrat who defeated incumbent Republican Donnie Harrison, said Wake County’s involvement with the federal 287(g) program will […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 2, 2018 Wake County Schools in North Carolina has proposed giving students the day off on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid al-Fitr, a three-day holiday marking the end of Ramadan, may be recognized as a teacher work day in Wake County Schools’ traditional calendar for 2020-21, the Raleigh News […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 30, 2018 A booming tech hub near Raleigh is only one reason venture funding for startups in North Carolina have reached $2.57 billion so far in 2018, a report said. The 2018 numbers are up 154 percent from 2017 ($1.01 billion) and a whopping 400 percent from 2013, when startups in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 12, 2018 A Turkish judge on Oct. 12 ordered American pastor Andrew Brunson be released and sentenced to time served. Brunson was arrested in October 2016 and was detained for 18 months before being charged by the Turkish government with being connected to outlawed Kurdish groups and opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, […]
