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Since 1947, The Wake Weekly has been reporting the news from Wake Forest and beyond. Today we continue to focus on this regional center along with the towns of Youngsville, Rolesville, Wendell, Zebulon and Knightdale.

Can NC Republicans win governor’s races anymore?
03/08/2025

Can NC Republicans win governor’s races anymore?

As of 2020, the national Republican Party had only won the popular vote in one of the previous eight presidential elections. The political class believed this failure represented a serious indictment of the GOP, even though Republican presidents held the White House for 12 years in this period. But....

Wilson County earns top livestock honors
03/07/2025

Wilson County earns top livestock honors

The N.C. State Fair Livestock officials have released the winners of the N.C. State Fair’s Junior Livestock Sale of Champions.Annah Claire Sullivan of Lucama showed the Grand Champion junior market steer. The winning $23,000 bid was placed by N.C. Farm Bureau Insurance, Farm Credit Associations of...

North Carolina doesn’t overcharge drivers
03/07/2025

North Carolina doesn’t overcharge drivers

Our state levies a motor fuels tax of 40.65 cents per gallon. This is one of the highest rates in the nation — but don’t jump to conclusions. North Carolina doesn’t spend more on highways than the average state. And motorists aren’t being overcharged. With so much data accessible online, it....

East Wake downs Louisburg in tournament
03/07/2025

East Wake downs Louisburg in tournament

The East Wake Warriors defeated the Louisburg Warriors 70-41 for third place in the Navy bracket of the South Granville Holiday Invitational Dec. 31. East Wake managed to find the basket early in the first quarter with Jacob Byers and Pierre Crespo combining for the first 13 points. Eric Johns and N...

Garment workers are taking on Nike. Americans should support them
03/06/2025

Garment workers are taking on Nike. Americans should support them

Absent in the raging debate over trade policy and tariffs is a truth about the economy that those of us in poorer countries know all too well: U.S. corporations and their billionaire owners profit from massive supply chains that exploit low-wage workers in the Global South. For decades, these unregu...

Thomas, Arthur vie for District 6 commissioner seat
03/06/2025

Thomas, Arthur vie for District 6 commissioner seat

Incumbent Shinica Thomas and challenger Jacob Arthur are vying for the District 6 seat on the Wake County Board of Commissioners. Thomas, who is running as a Democrat, was elected to the board in 2020 and serves as its chairperson. Republican Jacob Arthur won his primary election by a wide margin in...

Getting the entire elephant under the tent
03/06/2025

Getting the entire elephant under the tent

The puzzler asks, “How do you get an 800-pound elephant under a tent?” The answer is one step at a time. First, you get the trunk, then the head and so on and so on. For our present discussion, the elephant symbolizes gambling and the tent represents the state of North Carolina. Gambling is bein...

MAGA prepares for civil war while Dems swoon over Taylor Swift
03/05/2025

MAGA prepares for civil war while Dems swoon over Taylor Swift

If there ever was a modern nation “fiddling while Rome burns” it is the America of the 21st century. No matter what happens in the community on all sides around us — homelessness, mass killings, the death of civics education in schools, sports gambling, rampant sexual abuse in the churches, in...

Protect the public policy that enabled my invention to help people see
03/05/2025

Protect the public policy that enabled my invention to help people see

“How can you help the people around you?” My mother’s words were front of mind when, in the late 1990s, I moved from China to the United States as a postdoctoral research associate to continue my research in augmented and virtual reality technology. I was awarded a National Science Foundation ...

Major League Table Tennis will travel to Raleigh in September
03/05/2025

Major League Table Tennis will travel to Raleigh in September

Major League Table Tennis will make its way to Raleigh, N.C. for the very first time as they play at the Triangle Badminton and Table Tennis Club from Sept. 20-22. With the viewership of table tennis continuously on the rise, fans in the United States have been able to get their fill from the MLTT.....

Boliek, Farley to eliminate DEI from state auditor's office, labor department
03/05/2025

Boliek, Farley to eliminate DEI from state auditor's office, labor department

State Auditor Dave Boliek announced Thursday his intentions to strike "Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion" from internal policies at the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor. The move follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to eliminate DEI in the federal workforce and the deci...

Stop paying twice for veterans’ health care
03/04/2025

Stop paying twice for veterans’ health care

The federal government is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars — by prepaying private Medicare Advantage insurers for care that’s ultimately provided and paid for by the Veterans Health Administration. It’s an astonishing waste of resources. As a former secretary of the Department of Veterans ...

Novonesis employees raise $43K for Safe Space of Louisburg
03/04/2025

Novonesis employees raise $43K for Safe Space of Louisburg

The annual Novonesis President’s Cup Golf Tournament was held Oct. 14 at the Heritage Golf Club in Wake Forest. More than 80 Novonesis employees and sponsors participated, raising $43,000 for Safe Space of Louisburg. With support from the President’s Cup, the organization will be able to install...

Mo Green is walking headfirst into a perfect storm
03/04/2025

Mo Green is walking headfirst into a perfect storm

With the elections behind us, we need to shift our focus to North Carolina issues. Without question, one of our highest priorities is helping our neighbors in western North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene. But there’s another perfect storm brewing — in public education. It is widely acknow...

Politics makes people stupid, including Supreme Court justices
03/03/2025

Politics makes people stupid, including Supreme Court justices

President-elect Donald Trump officially became a convicted felon on Friday as New York Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him on 34 counts of falsifying business records to disguise “hush money” payments to p**n star Stormy Daniels as legal expenses. The sentencing followed a 5-4 Supreme Court rejecti...

Woman's Club members attend docent reception at executive mansion
03/03/2025

Woman's Club members attend docent reception at executive mansion

A reception was held at the Executive Mansion Dec. 9 for the volunteer docents who lead mansion tours during the year. The Woman’s Club of Raleigh was well represented by a large group of attendees. The event included an hors d’oeuvres buffet, open wine bar and an old-fashioned rum punch. The Ma...

Stein urges caution as snow falls in North Carolina
03/02/2025

Stein urges caution as snow falls in North Carolina

Gov. Josh Stein has urged North Carolinians to be cautious -- and heed the warnings of local officials -- as a winter storm affects most of the state. “Our State Emergency Response Team is using every tool at its disposal to minimize the impact of this storm on North Carolinians,” Stein said. .....

Newby laments over-the-top reactions to NC Supreme Court dispute
03/02/2025

Newby laments over-the-top reactions to NC Supreme Court dispute

The ongoing legal battle over a seat on North Carolina’s Supreme Court has generated plenty of heated rhetoric. Critics have labeled Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s election challenges “anti-democratic.” They’ve accused him of trying to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters. ...

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