Josh Stein: “After a dry fall in 2025, North Carolina had a very dry start to 2026.”

I’ve got all kinds of respect for them and their willingness to do that because I know that it’s not the easiest thing to do in these inflamed times.

The State Board’s decision is a slap in the face to voters who stood up to these changes and a blatant circumvention of the law.

It’s the best way to ensure that you really get locally driven solutions to problems, which creates a laboratory of democracy, laboratory of ideas, of innovation.

The General Assembly has not raised the minimum wage in 17 years.