PERSPECTIVE: Sports Betting Comes to North Carolina
On March 11, the week of the 2024 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament, sports gambling became legal in North Carolina. According to the State Lottery Commission, which is charged with overseeing sports wagering in the state, North Carolinians spent just shy of $200 million during the first week. Yes, you read that right, $200 million in […]
PERSPECTIVE: Opposing an Inherent Evil
If you have read the 2023 Legislative Session Summary article in this edition of Family North Carolina magazine, you will recognize that this has been an epic year for the N.C. Family Policy Council and for the people of North Carolina. From the passage of historic pro-life legislation, to securing parental rights, to protecting the […]
2023 Legislative Session Summary
The 2023 Legislative Session of the N.C. General Assembly proved to be an incredibly busy, intense, and drama-filled session with quite a number of “highs” and “lows.” State lawmakers returned to Raleigh on January 11, 2023, to jump-start the session by swearing in members and electing officers. Senator Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) was elected to a […]
2023 Legislative Session Preview
The 2023 Regular Legislative Session of the North Carolina General Assembly is currently underway, and it is likely to be an eventful term. Lawmakers gathered in Raleigh on January 11 to kick-start the year with an “organizational” session, as members were sworn in, temporary rules were adopted, and officers were officially elected. Lawmakers then returned […]
A Promise of “Prosperity,” But At What Cost?
When you hear the word “gambling,” what is the first thing you think of? Maybe it’s the image of a fancy casino, memories of nights out with friends, scratch-off lottery tickets, or that alluring possibility of winning millions. While the gambling industry puts up an enticing front, the health, financial, and societal problems that often […]
AT ISSUE: A Season of Learning
Putting this magazine together has been a season of learning for me. To start with, I’ve never put together a magazine, so the process itself was new to me (I was a staff member for the student newspaper in college, but that’s not quite the same thing). Even more than that, though, each of the […]
AT ISSUE: Second-Class Citizens?
The First Amendment of our Constitution grants every American the right to live out his or her faith without fear of governmental interference. Yet, lately this has not been the case. In the Winter 2021 edition of Family North Carolina magazine, we included a quote from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on our “etcetera” […]
Teetering on the Edge: Gambling in NC
The baseball legend (and great philosopher) Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra once said: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.” Twenty-five years ago, Congress established the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC) in an effort to determine where the United States was going on the road of legalized gambling, and where […]
PERSPECTIVE: A Stream of Life in a Time of Drought
Every day it seems like the world is spinning further out of control. COVID-19 infection rates are spiking again around the globe. The Taliban has wrested control of Afghanistan after an announced American troop withdrawal, and many of that nation’s citizens are fleeing for their lives. Catastrophe has hit the island nation of Haiti once […]
AT ISSUE: For Such A Time As This
For almost two years, NC Family has been discussing crafting a feature article to address the declining state of mental health in America. With suicide rates the highest that they have been since World War II, we all understood there was something dire going on in our nation that we needed to share with our […]