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Fort Bragg leaders publicly acknowledged and apologized for housing issues such as mold, lead paint and leaks at the installation during a more than two-hour town hall meeting Wednesday.
Representatives of Corvias Military Housing, the private company contracted to manage the post’s housing, also attended the meeting.
Tim Toohey, a senior representative for Corvias, apologized on behalf of Corvias and said he is “appalled” by what he has seen and heard.
SALISBURY — Republicans are not united on President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Rowan County’s representatives in Congress are an example of that disagreement.
On Friday, after not securing the amount of funding for a border wall he wanted from Congress, Trump declared a national emergency. He also signed a funding bill that included $1.4 billion for border security and would avert another government shutdown, but he had initially asked for $5.7 billion for a border wall.
President Donald Trump’s decision to tap into billions of dollars in defense funding to help build his signature border wall drew fierce criticism Friday from military-minded lawmakers in both parties, who warned the move would damage military readiness.
Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, including tapping into $3.6 billion in military construction funding to finance more barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, set off another firestorm on Capitol Hill as he declared that the military projects his administration intended to raid “didn’t sound too important to me.”
RALEIGH, N.C. — Environmental groups roundly criticized a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan on toxic chemicals like GenX on Thursday, saying it doesn't go nearly far or fast enough to address threats to health and water.
Gov. Roy Cooper complained about the plan as well, saying the U.S. government's ballyhooed action plan lacked important detail and a commitment to setting standards on chemicals made in North Carolina and found in drinking water along the Cape Fear River.
The EPA's plan, Cooper said in a statement, "seems to ignore the urgency of the problem."