An executive order asking the Department of the Interior to determine a path forward for the tribe seems to have led to the same answer the tribe has gotten for years.
Sarah Nagem
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Nine people want to be Cumberland County’s next sheriff
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Nine people have applied to be the next Cumberland County sheriff, following the retirement in June of Sheriff Ennis Wright. The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to pick a new sheriff at its meeting today. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. in room 118 of […]
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Changes to SNAP could hit Cumberland County’s budget hard
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County is slowly determining the impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Congress passed last month. The legislation, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, includes federal spending cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. […]
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Should Cumberland County hire a state lobbyist?
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Forty-two of North Carolina’s 100 counties spend local tax dollars on lobbyists who ask the state legislature for money and try to convince lawmakers to vote yes or no on specific legislation. Cumberland County is not one of these 42 counties, according to a lobbying directory the […]
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Hope Mills board votes to change town charter for staggered 4-year terms
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The Hope Mills Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 on Monday to amend the town’s charter to establish four-year staggered terms for elected board members. Until now, the mayor and commissioners have served two-year terms. A referendum to change the charter was on the ballot in 2018, but […]
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New superintendent of Cumberland County Schools wants to repeat successes
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County Schools’ new superintendent says he will pursue the kind of success he experienced in his previous superintendent jobs in Johnston, Sampson and Northampton counties. Under his tenure, those school districts saw improvements in academic performance. Eric Bracy, who started the Cumberland County job July 1, […]
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20 candidates file for Cumberland County town boards on first day
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. A crowd of political hopefuls usually lines up outside the door of the Cumberland County Board of Elections on the first day of the candidate filing period. But the filing typically starts at noon, not at 8 a.m. like it did on Monday. By the end of […]
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Fayetteville’s Office of Community Safety gets to work
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. More than two years after the initiative was first proposed, Fayetteville’s Office of Community Safety is up and running. The city established the office in hopes of improving community safety through non-law enforcement solutions. It is based on four pillars: community-based violence prevention, homelessness response, mental health […]
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PFAS bill that would make manufacturers pay is in NC Senate
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. A bill that would make manufacturers of “forever chemicals” pay for the cost of public water systems to filter PFAS pollution is now in the state Senate after passing the N.C. House of Representatives last month. The Senate bill passed a first reading on May 8, and […]
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Cumberland County, Fayetteville could get millions from latest opioid settlement
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County and the City of Fayetteville are expected to receive millions of dollars from the national opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and the company’s owners, the Sackler family. N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson was among 55 attorneys general who signed on to the $7.4 billion settlement, […]