Alan Wooten

1 week ago | douglas-budget.com | Alan Wooten

(The Center Square) – Three days after her social media post related to the beheading of President Donald Trump went viral nationally, a North Carolina lawmaker has apologized. Rep. Julie von Haefen, D-Wake, was given the time for a statement following Tuesday evening’s voting session in the House of Representatives. The session was the first since the Saturday posting in which the chamber was together for floor votes.

1 week ago | bryantimes.com | Alan Wooten

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1 week ago | thecentersquare.com | Alan Wooten

(The Center Square) – California Sen. Alex Padilla was in the wrong, and so too was the team safeguarding Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, says arguably one of the nation’s most vulnerable U.S. senators in the 2026 election cycle. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., took to the Senate floor a day after Padilla and nearly a week since the West Coast encounter that grabbed the news cycle briefly ahead a hullabaloo weekend of celebrating the Army and protesting the president’s administration.

1 week ago | thecentersquare.com | Alan Wooten

(The Center Square) – Increased oversight by the North Carolina Legislature of state agencies making rules with significant costs is a step closer to becoming law. Likely, the General Assembly will have to hand that power to itself. Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, like his predecessor Roy Cooper, is loath to let go of authority and a veto of the bill once known in the Senate as the NC REINS Act is ready to be teed up for him.

1 week ago | heraldpalladium.com | Alan Wooten

(The Center Square) – Three days after her social media post related to the beheading of President Donald Trump went viral nationally, a North Carolina lawmaker has apologized. Rep. Julie von Haefen, D-Wake, was given the time for a statement following Tuesday evening’s voting session in the House of Representatives. The session was the first since the Saturday posting in which the chamber was together for floor votes. kAm“%9:D H66<6?5[ x D92C65 2 G:56@ >@?E286 @? u2463@@< E92E :?4=F565 2?