Corey Friedman

NASHVILLE — Nash County Public Schools was notified Jan. 8 that an unauthorized party accessed district data related to PowerSchool, a provider of cloud-based education software. The breach, which ran for 10 days starting Dec. 19, occurred when the company’s student information system was compromised via PowerSource, one of its community-focused customer portals. “As soon as we learned of the […]

A Nashville man will serve four years in federal prison after fraudulently securing household emergency rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Judge James C. Dever handed down 50-year-old Joe Lewis Jefferson’s sentence in a Raleigh hearing last week. On Aug. 12, Jefferson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and failure to file a tax return. Jefferson […]

Donald Trump is president again. Four years after his first term ended in an unprecedented spasm of lies, criminality and violence that threatened the very survival of constitutional government in the world’s greatest democracy, a convicted felon sits in the White House surrounded by a cadre of fawning enablers and extremists. While there are obviously many Americans who welcome this […]

Donald Trump won a convincing victory over Kamala Harris largely due to record support from Black and Latino men. Trump won these votes because of, not in spite of, his immigration policies. These predominantly working-class men intuitively understand that mass migration depresses their wages, increases competition for jobs and housing and overburdens their local communities. President Trump and Congress can […]

ROCKY MOUNT — The UNC Health Nash Board of Commissioners welcomed two new members at its January meeting. Allen Corbett III and Stephen Barnes were sworn in, while board member and Secretary Damian Tucker concluded his nine-year term. Current board member Kristen Brabble assumed the open role of secretary after Tucker’s departure. “Our Board of Commissioners gives so much of […]

On Friday, outgoing President Joe Biden belatedly announced the ratification — in 2018 — of the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Equal Rights Amendment. On Monday, incoming President Donald Trump issued an executive order claiming the 14th Amendment (and 8 U.S.C. 1401) no longer mean what they’ve always meant and have always been understood to mean. […]

Anger is one of the stages of grief. Loss of life, property or personal effects prompts anger as a response. Most recently, anger leveled at government entities is being amplified in news coverage of natural disasters. People are mad and the government is to blame, as if the government perpetrated the misery and loss that has come upon them. There […]

The 19-inch black and white TV was rolled into our classroom each day to watch ninth grade physical science on WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill. We were introduced to basic concepts of physics and chemistry, the states of matter, principles of energy, electricity and magnetism and Newton’s laws, with actual demonstrations. The groundbreaking proposal was to determine whether a master teacher […]

Inauguration 2025, what a great day for America! The inauguration of President Trump to his second term gives us a feeling of elation as if for the last four years we’ve been submerged under a corrupt, decrepit, debauched administration and suddenly we can breathe fresh air — much like the wrongly imprisoned J6 protesters. Therefore, we were pleased to read […]

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey recently announced that base rates for homeowners insurance will increase by 15% over the next 18 months “to make sure that insurance companies, who have paid out large sums due to natural catastrophes, have adequate funds on hand to pay claims.” He said nothing about the exacerbating influence of climate change on those natural […]