Old North News

Aftershocks continue after 5.1 shaker rocks North Carolina

By John Sammon | Aug 14, 2020

Aftershocks continued to rattle the dishes earlier this week after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Charlotte area on Aug. 9, one of the biggest quakes ever to rock the state.

Political analyst says Cooper pushed his power limits again in virus shutdown

By John Sammon | Apr 3, 2020

A political analyst with the John Locke Foundation said in an op-ed piece on March 24 that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper did what amounts to an end-run power grab in his handling of a business shutdown to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic.