State inspectors cited the Greensboro daycare that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his wife Yolanda Hill owned years ago for falsifying credential certificates.
Now it’s the focus of a new campaign ad as Robinson, a Republican, runs for governor.
The 30-second ad from Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein’s campaign is titled “Unsafe.” It outlines an inspector’s report of Precious Beginnings — where Robinson and Hill worked together from 2000-07, he wrote in his 2022 biography. [ Read more …]
Yolanda Hill Robinson with husband Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson celebrating his victory in the GOP gubernatorial primary on March 2, 2024.(YouTube Screengrab)
Lt. Governor says agency’s finding that Balanced Nutrition, Inc. owes state $132K is “politically motivated”
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said a compliance review conducted by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) of his wife’s nonprofit is “politically motivated” and claimed the agency is being “weaponized” to target him and his family for political purposes.
On a morning typically reserved for grocery shopping, laundry and household chores, an army of women cleared their Saturday schedules to hop on a Zoom call.
More than 800 joined the first ever NC Women for Harris virtual call, riding a wave of enthusiasm that started just a week earlier when President Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential contest and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the top of the ticket.
But amid the enthusiasm, the women on Saturday’s call acknowledged that with roughly 100 days remaining until election day, they needed to be focused and united in their messaging.[ Read more … ]
The state Board of Elections on Monday rejected state and national Republicans’ challenges to rules for absentee ballots and voter ID.
The Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the NC Republican Party, and a Pasquotank County voter want county boards of elections to reject absentee ballots if they arrive in the wrong envelope. They also object to procedures for verifying that names on voter IDs are “substantially equivalent” to the name contained in the voter’s voter registration record. Republicans claimed that procedures the state elections officials told counties to follow conflict with state statutes. [ Read more . .
The national fight for reproductive freedom found its way to Durham on Thursday where several of the state’s top Democrats campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris, drawing sharp contrasts between Harris’ and former President Donald Trump’s positions on abortion.
Harris is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in the wake of President Joe Biden’s decision to not seek reelection. Trump is the Republican candidate for president.[ Read more . ..]
Each morning, Jill Hoffman and her husband wake up to the sound of Dominion Energy’s bulldozers working on the Moriah Energy Center.
They’ve lived in a home on 16 acres of wooded land for 22 years and planned to retire there.
But they’re wary now due to their proximity to the planned liquified natural gas storage facility on 485 acres in southeastern Person County, about two miles from Durham and Granville County lines. [ Read more . ..]
UNC System President Peter Hans told members of the UNC Board of Governors last Wednesday that nationally there has been a sharp decline in trust towards higher education.
“There’s a belief that many universities have drifted far from their core mission, delivering a sound education at a reasonable cost,” said Hans.
It’s not the first time Hans has mentioned the issue of trust. [ Read more . …]
Mismanagement at nonprofit led by Lt. Gov. Robinson’s wife raises important questions about the delivery of public services
If there’s a most persistent and destructive myth that’s permeated American public policy debates in recent decades, it is the fable of privatization.
You know how this goes: “Once upon a time there was a wasteful public program that was turned over to hardworking private entrepreneurs who ‘ran it like a business’ and transformed it into a dynamic and efficient enterprise that delivered more and better services at a lower cost.”
The truth, of course, is that such descriptions are very frequently bogus. [ Read more …]
Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.
Local News
Comments / 0