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It's 5.05 and welcome in to a Friday edition of the Carolina Journal News Hour on Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT. I'm Nick Craig. Good morning to you. We start off this Friday morning with the big news breaking. Yesterday morning in the Queen City, the mayor of Charlotte in Vi Lyles has announced that she will resign from her post as the mayor of the 14th largest city in the nation on June the 30th and will not seek re-election.
This comes after a pretty dominating election win for Lyles in November of 2025. She released the statement in part saying, serving as Charlotte's mayor has been the honor of my life, and I am proud of our record navigating various challenges, strengthening our economy, investing in our neighborhoods, and building a foundation for Charlotte's continued success during a time of rapid growth.
Now is the time for the next phase of my life to spend more time with my grandchildren and for someone new to lead us forward. Lyles has served as the mayor since 2017 and as I mentioned, secured a decisive reelection victory back just over six months ago, defeating Republican challenger Terry Donovan in the Charlotte mayorial race 70 to 25. She continued in her statement by saying, I'm very proud of my record as mayor, but I also firmly believe that true leadership includes knowing when it is time to let the next generation of leaders take over. By leaving early, the voters will have more time to learn about their candidates. Our city is strong, our trajectory is positive, and now is the right moment for someone else to build on our progress from the past few years.
Under state law, unlike vacancies in the North Carolina General Assembly or county commission seats, where typically the departing official's political party selects a replacement, in this case, it will be the Charlotte City Council itself that will be responsible for filling the mayor's seat. There is currently a 12-member board, that is 11 council members, and the mayor making 12 are overwhelmingly Democrat, with Republicans holding just one seat. That is Ed Driggs, who represents District 7 on the Charlotte City Council. Lyle says that she feels confident stepping down, citing the city's strong leadership and plans to spend more time with her grandchildren, saying in part, as in all things politics, I am sure there will be speculation as to why I am making this decision now. Simply put, I'm going to spend time with my grandchildren.
Like many of us, I have missed some moments with them and do not intend to miss any more. Ending the comment there, or the statement there from Charlotte Mayer Vi Lyles, reactions started pouring. And as you can imagine, pretty quickly. With former Republican councilman Tark Bakari taking to social media yesterday morning and saying, while we had many battles over the years, I've always had love for Mayor Vi Lyles, and I wish her nothing but the best as she transitions out of this role. This forces a big question out into the open much earlier than many were expecting to have to deal with.
Who is going to be the next mayor? Bakari also emphasized the importance of the timing of the announcement, noting that there will be significant decisions that the Charlotte City Council will soon face, saying it also offers an opportunity for several contenders with interest to commit to not running in 2027 in exchange for being appointed to finish this term. There's essentially seven weeks for a council working to pass a budget with a big tax increase and address 77 tolls to also know the 77 toll also now decide who will the next mayor be. Your popcorn. Ending the commentary there from former Charlotte City Councilman Tark Bakari.
As you're well aware, Charlotte has faced many high-profile events in recent years, including the brutal murder of Irina Zarutska last August, which thrust the Queen City into the national spotlight and brought serious questions about public safety across the city. This is a major political story brewing here in North Carolina. We will, of course, keep an eye on any additional announcements from the Charlotte City Council as to who they will be naming the replacement for Vile Isles. Again, recapping that story: the Charlotte mayor will resign on June the 30th of this year and will not seek another term. We'll keep you up to date with the details right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
In some other news that we are tracking this morning, North Carolina lawmakers are advancing a proposal that would incentivize some looking at a couple of things out of the North Carolina general. Assembly. We are keeping an eye on what was a busy couple of days in Raleigh. We did see a full meeting of the, or almost a full meeting, I should say, of the North Carolina House yesterday as lawmakers made their way back to Raleigh for this first full week of May with a voting day in the House. There were a plethora of items on the agenda.
However, when it was all said and done yesterday afternoon, about seven local bills dealing with a variety of local issues were passed by the North Carolina House. And with that, we also heard and got some information that veto overrides would not be happening, at least as of right now, coming out of the North Carolina General Assembly.
So we're keeping an eye on that and, of course, keeping you up to date on this legislative short session. In some other statewide news, North Carolina teachers say that discipline is their toughest workplace challenge. This is according to brand new 2026. Statewide survey data of more than 102,000 educators that were just presented this week to the North Carolina State Board of Education. The survey is called the North Carolina Teacher Working Condition Survey.
It is administered every two years to licensed school educators, and this go-around drew a 90.5% response rate, which is five percentage points higher than the number we saw in 2024, where that number was around 85%. The survey's 11 domains cover school leadership, managing student conduct, teacher time and workload, professional development, school safety, facilities, community involvement, and education retention. The challenge was the most significant in middle and high schools. According to the survey, at the high school level, more than 77% of teachers reported tardiness or class skipping as a problem, with 66.9% citing cheating, 64.1% citing drug or tobacco use. That's a very concerning figure.
And 53.6% citing student disrespect of teachers. That story was unfortunately very similar in middle school, where 69.5% of teachers identified disrespect as an issue, 66% flagging disorder areas like hallways and bathrooms, and 61.1% pointing to tardiness or class skipping. The item of highest concerns across all grade levels was whether teachers agreed that students follow the school rules. That came in at 73.8%. Sean Kellogg, who is the senior director of the Office for Research and Protect and Promising Practices at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, that's NCDPI, said, quote, student conduct was also one of the clearest day-to-day challenges among teachers, especially in middle and high schools.
He noted the results mirror DPI's annual crime, violence, and dropout data, including the controlled substance offenses, that drove most reportable acts in most recent state surveys. Anonymous comments from teachers were included in the report, and while they reinforced some of those top-line issues that we just talked about, with one educator across the state writing, lack of an attendance policy and 50s. are the most detrimental thing affecting student learning. In reference to a minimum grade floor policy, which means that a student cannot literally earn less than a fifty percent that prevents teachers from giving b grades below that on assignments. With another writing in part, students are allowed to roam the hallways and be disruptive and are rarely given consequences.
And a third anonymous educator across the state saying a lack of consistent expectations for student behavior is leading to a culture where school rules are routinely ignored. Kimberly Jones, the 2023 North Carolina Teacher of the Year and a member of the Chapel Hill Carborough City School District, where she is an English teacher, also serves as an advisor to the state board, told members there that the behavior challenges in middle and high school are, quote, tied directly back to the strength of your administration and the culture that they establish in their schools and the support that teachers feel in managing their classrooms. Without adequate counselors and social workers, teachers are having to take on behaviors that professional interventionists should be handling, according to Jones. At-large board members. Member, Kathy Moore, questioned why classroom management didn't rank higher among the supported teacher requests.
With Moore asking the question to the group, there does seem to be a little bit of disconnect between 50 to 70 percent of teachers having negative percentages about how to deal with classroom disorder. Understanding disorder and student disrespect. When you look at the stuff that they're asking for help with, it's not really student conduct. The preliminary report recommends clear expectations, more consistent consequences, and a stronger adult alignment, along with targeted support, specifically in middle and high schools, where some of these numbers really did jump off the page. With State Board Chair Eric Davis asking DPI staff to include policy recommendations for state leaders in the final report, which is due later this year.
There's a lot of very interesting information in this survey. We've got it linked up this morning over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. Look for the story with the headline: NC Teachers Cite Discipline as Biggest Workplace Challenge.
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Sleep Number to a Good Life Sleep. It's 22 minutes past the hour. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT. As North Carolina approaches the start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, which kicks off here on June the 1st, the National Weather Service is urging residents across the state to prepare now as part of National Hurricane Preparedness Week. This campaign runs each and every year, typically the first full week of May, which we're in right now, and is designed to help families, businesses, and local governments get ready before a storm threatens.
The campaign is a joint effort involving the National Weather Service, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, and emergency management officials across North Carolina. With officials saying that the message is simple, preparation before hurricane season can save lives and reduce damage when storms eventually arrive. Stephen Pfaff, who is the meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, told CarolinaJournal.com, we cannot ignore our climatological and historical exposure to hurricanes in this part of the country, regardless of seasonal predictions. All it takes is one storm.
Now is the time to enhance community resiliency so that we are not scrambling at the last minute when a storm threatens. Make sure you and your family are prepared. And unfortunately, North Carolina has a long history of devastating storms that have devastated communities from the mountains to the coast. We go back to Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Florence 2018, and of course, most recently, Hurricane Helene in 2024. They have all left lasting impacts on the state, causing deadly flooding, widespread power outages, and billions of dollars worth of damage.
Governor Josh Stein said in a press release this week, Hurricane Helene was a stark reminder of how destructive tropical systems can be. And it should prompt all of us in every corner of the state to make sure that we are prepared. Preparing in advance not only helps you stay safe during a storm, but also speeds up recovery. The National Weather Service says this year's preparedness campaign focuses on several major themes, including understanding hurricane risks, preparing before storms even form, learning how forecast information works, and knowing when to evacuate. And here are the main topics that you can find out more details on over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com.
Knowing your risk, water and wind, preparing before hurricane season, knowing your zone and storm surges, understanding forecast information as well as the risk of high winds, get moving when a storm threatens, and the significant risk, and we see this a lot here in North Carolina, of inland flooding, staying protected during storms and the risk of tropical tornadoes, using caution after storms and the risk of rip currents for those in their coastal plains here in North Carolina, and finally, taking action today. Emergency officials are encouraging North Carolinians to create or update hurricane emergency kits and plan now rather than waiting until a storm approaches. Will Ray, who is the director of the North Carolina Emergency Management, says writing your plan down is only the beginning. Practicing the plan with those in your home to ensure they know what to do. Don't forget to include your pets and to check in on other ones, especially those in your community who you believe may be vulnerable or might be in need of assistance.
Another major focus this year from weather service officials is understanding forecast information as meteorologists say that many residents still misunderstand hurricane cones, those graphics that you see on television and on social media, watches and warnings. The National Weather Service notes that dangerous impacts such as flooding and tornadoes can occur far outside the center of the storm. And starting this year, the National Hurricane Center based out of Miami, Florida, will include inland watches and warnings on their graphical cone products that they produce out at the National Hurricane Center. Meteorologists also point out that tropical storms do in fact not need to make landfall directly here in North Carolina to create major impacts. Inland flooding has historically been one of the deadliest threats associated with tropical systems in the state.
And the National Weather Service, again, says preparedness efforts should happen every year, regardless of the previous season, which last year was a relatively mild hurricane season here across the state. Officials continue to emphasize that it only takes one storm in one area to create a disaster for an entire community or an entire family. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that is NOAA, is set to release their 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook during a news conference coming up here in just a couple of weeks on May the 21st. That will be their official forecast. We're also going, or their official outlook, I should say.
We are seeing other products starting to be released as well, including some details from NC State and Colorado State, who both each year release a similar outlook to the National Weather Service. A couple of other resources, readync.gov, as well as the National Hurricane Center. And we've got all of those links, some graphics showing what that new warning cone graphic will look like from the National Weather Service and all of the topics that I mentioned. Those details are all available this morning over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. The headline: State officials urge caution for hurricane preparedness week.
And again, that season officially kicks off on June the 1st.
However, as we know with Mother Nature here in North Carolina, the calendar does not necessarily define when events will or will not happen.
However, we'll be beginning to see the start of that season on June the 1st, officially, according to weather service officials. And here in North Carolina, we typically see our risks later into the hurricane season, typically in June, July. Not as large of a risk, still not impossible. But as we move past that into the late summer and early fall, Is when North Carolina typically has seen some of its most devastating and destructive storms.
So make sure, regardless of whether you're in the Wilmington area, up in the Outer Banks, Charlotte, Raleigh, out west, it doesn't matter, make sure that you've got plans in place for the upcoming hurricane season.
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We've been keeping a very close eye on the legal saga that is DeCarlos Brown Jr. If that name sounds familiar, well, it should. He is the man seen on surveillance footage back in September of last year, brutally murdering Irina Zarutska aboard the Charlotte Light Rail. Interesting thing to note about it. There are two different legal challenges going on at the same time right now, charges in the federal court system and charges, of course, here in the state of North Carolina.
Our next guest has been keeping a very close eye on both of these challenges. Mitch Kokai from the John Locke Foundation joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Mitch, a little bit odd that you've got these two dueling court cases going on at the same time. You've been keeping an eye on the latest, and it looks like in the federal system here, there's some discussion over DeCarlos Brown's mental acuity. That seemingly would add up to this case as to this brutal murder that was committed during the summer of last year.
Yes, what we're looking at is whether DeCarlos Brown Jr. is capable of moving forward with court proceedings. And there are, as you mentioned, these dual tracks.
So you have the murder charge, which is in state court, which is as you would expect. That's the type of charge that you would see in state court. But there's also an additional federal charge based on the fact that the stabbing took place on the federally funded Charlotte Lynx light rail line.
So you have the murder charge, which all of us would be familiar with, but you also have this additional charge, which could carry the potential of life in prison or even the death penalty, an attack on a railroad line resulting in death. And that's the case that we've seen a development in within the last couple of days. Not too long ago, we learned that Carlos Brown Jr., in his various mental evaluations, was found to be incapable to proceed in the state court proceedings. You might remember, listeners might remember hearing that not too long ago. And so, what happened was the state court proceeding got bumped back.
by six months.
So a hearing that was scheduled to take place in his case in April got bumped back to October. But now the latest development. is that his lawyers in the federal case Have put forward a motion for a competency hearing and then asked also for a federal judge to find DeCarlos Brown Jr. incompetent to proceed. And they list mental illness, inability to work with his lawyers, a lack of understanding of what the legal process is that he's even facing.
And so they say for all of those reasons, he should be found incompetent. And then it's interesting to note that the U.S. attorney, Russ Ferguson in this case, agrees that there should be a competency hearing. And there are two different court filings, and they're very interesting in this case. Carlos Brown is his lawyers are the ones seeking the hearing and seeking to have the finding that he's incompetent to proceed.
They talk about his history of mental illness. also offer some description of the illness saying that he believes he was affected by some sort of material that controls all of his movements and he calls it a body emergency and of course his defense attorneys are saying that he's been trying to get help for this for years and years and that they've broken Justice system and broken mental health system have failed him. On the other side, the U.S. Attorney's Office in its filing. Agrees that there should be a hearing and agrees that if he is found to be incompetent, that what should happen is that he then remains in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
And what will happen is he will have hospitalization and treatment. And the goal is to make him. Capable to proceed.
So it's not just you stick him off to the side, say, well, that's the end of it. The U.S. Attorney's filing makes very clear that that is not the end of the case. What happens is he goes through treatment. He could face medication, even forced medication if necessary, to make sure that he is competent to proceed.
And then at some point, he would come back. To the trial court. And if he is found under the treatment or medication to be able to then proceed, then the proceedings would move forward.
So it's not as if this is his way out. This is a step in the process. The legal system does not allow a defendant to move forward in a case. If the person doesn't understand what's happening and is not able to work with the lawyers, but if after some hospitalization and some treatment, he then is capable to proceed, then you would go back. Presumably, both at the state court level and the federal court level, and proceed with the case against him.
Another thing that's clear in the filing from the U.S. Attorney's Office is this is not the same as an insanity defense.
So you might have. In the future, some sort of insanity defense in this case, but that's not what is happening right now. Basically, this is a stage in the process about. Whether the defendant could actually take part in the proceedings and understand what's going on and work with his lawyers to help defend himself. All sides are saying no, he can't do that now, but the officials and authorities want to put him in a position where he would get the treatment that he needs so that he can move forward with the defense of his case, both at the state level and the federal level.
Mitch, do you think part of the reason that the U.S. Attorney's Office says, hey, yeah, we'll get you into the federal system here. We'll get you whatever sort of medication or treatment that you need so that you can stand trial and proceed with these proceedings going forward? Do you think part of that reason is the high-profile nature of this case? Just to kind of take a step back and go back to late last year, this was not only a big story here in North Carolina.
You had the President of the United States commenting on it multiple times. You had international news publications running the horrific footage that unfortunately almost everybody has seen now on the surveillance footage from the Charlotte Lightrail. Do you think that plays into what the U.S. Attorney's Office is looking at here? I don't know that it affects how the U.S.
Attorney's Office is proceeding with this case as it's going forward. I do think the publicity that you're talking about. plays a major factor in why there's a federal case at all. Obviously, you would suspect and hope that there would be a murder charge at the state level, given what we know about the facts of the case. But the fact that there's an additional federal case.
Probably does have something to do with all of the publicity that took place in this case. As the defense attorneys point out in their latest court filing, having this type of federal charge is very rare. You don't see this happen very often.
So, the fact that the federal court system is involved at all is probably due, at least in some part, To the widespread publicity that this case has had. But once he's into the system, the way the U.S. Attorney's Office has been approaching this is probably the way they would approach. Any defendant who's in this situation. And I should point out that having him moving into the process of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and their special facility dealing with prisoners of this sort.
is not something that is now new to this case. He has already been in federal custody, and some of the court filings show that he has already undergone some. observation and analysis by Doctors who are part of this system already. And that's one of the reasons why his lawyers and the U.S. attorney are agreeing that you should have a competency hearing and some sort of determination of competency.
They're saying, look, he's already been under observation. He's been at this facility. Doctors have seen him. They've taken observations.
So this is not going to be something that's going to be new to him. He probably, after this hearing, would go back to the same facility he's been in in recent months. Mitch, I think I'm going to, the next question I'm going to ask you is one that's probably on many people's minds going through some of the most recent details in this case and the arguments made by the defense attorneys here, those representing DeCarlos Brown Jr., they lay out this severe mental dysfunction that DeCarlos Brown is dealing with. Of course, there's the major political angle of this story as well. We've seen legislation move forth through the North Carolina General Assembly both last year and this year, dealing with the murder of Irina Zarutska.
How does somebody like this, Mitch, that is so mentally incapable that the defense attorney is coming out with some foreign substance is controlling him and telling him how he needs to operate and what he needs to do? How does somebody like that that was arrested, if you'll remember, in early January of 2025, how is somebody like that out roaming the streets of Charlotte that fateful night last summer?
Well, the defense attorneys have a very simple answer to that. It's in their court filing. They say that the mental health system and the justice system have failed them. Their argument is that DeCarlos Brown Jr. has been asking for help for months and months, if not years, and that he's basically been telling the same story, that he believes this material has affected him and is controlling him, and he's been trying to get help, and that his requests have fallen on deaf ears.
Now, of course, that is. The defense argument and trying to help him as he's facing these cases, but There probably is at least some truth to the sense that Various people within the justice system have seen him come to court and have seen that this is not a guy who's acting in a normal way. But he has not gotten into some sort of treatment facility, either through the justice system or not, that would have helped him deal with the issues before the August 2025 events on the Charlotte Lynx line with Arina Zarutska that have prompted all the publicity and prompted now the charges, the very terrible events that happened at that time. I would guess that even some on the other side of the case who think that Carlos Brown Jr. needs to pay for what he's done probably agree that there's been a failure along the line.
And the question is, who deserves the bulk of the credit or blame for that failure? Is it a magistrate? Is it a judge? Is it police? Is it the mental health system?
They're probably pockets of blame. all the way around. And that's one of the reasons why we saw Arena's law passed. shortly after that incident and why you continue to see Legislative action on things like involuntary commitment and other issues, because this is a clear case. of failure somewhere along the line.
In the justice system, in the mental health system. This is a guy who has shown over and over again with more than a dozen. interactions with law enforcement, that there's something wrong with him. but that wasn't treated. Earlier in the process, and really is only getting attention now because of the terrible events that happened in Charlotte with the death of Irina Zarutska.
Yeah, great point there, Mitch. And unfortunately, it is a prime situation for some of this legislation that we've seen over the last eight months or so. All right, final question for you. There was a lot of outrage back, as you mentioned a little while ago, with the fact that the state case was supposed to take place last month, delayed all the way to October. A lot of folks, again, because of the insane amount of intention that this case got, outrage that that was pushed back to October.
Looks like here with both sides in the federal case saying, Yeah, we got to evaluate this guy's mental ability in moving forward. Mitch, this does not sound like this is a case that is going to be wrapped up anytime soon. No, not at all. On the state level, as we've said, the latest hearing in that case is now scheduled for October 27th. It had been for late April, so it was delayed roughly six months.
In the federal case, I believe the court documents say that once there is a finding of incompetence, which is probably what you would expect, given that that's what the defense attorney is asking for, and the U.S. Attorney's Office didn't say find incompetence, but basically said, well, if you find incompetence, here's what's going to happen. He would go back. Through the Federal Bureau of Prisons in a special facility dealing with defendants of this type. And apparently, it would take up to four months to try to make sure that he could be capable to proceed, would be able to be competent to move forward with the proceedings.
And so, after four months, You would have some sort of probably an additional hearing, an additional hearing, I should say, to say whether. you know whether the treatment worked. And if not. Then the next steps would be decided at that point. But if the treatment has worked, And there was some indication, at least in the court filings, that it might, especially if he's forced to take medication.
That at that point, after four months, you could come back and then schedule further proceedings in the case.
So we're certainly months away from getting any sort of resolution of how to move forward with the case and probably. months if not years beyond that to get a final resolution in the case. Yeah, and of course that'll be interesting, especially as we get closer to the midterm elections taking place later on this year. There's been a lot of discussion about previous Democrat governor, Roy Cooper, who's now, of course, running for Senate as the Democrat candidate and some of the soft on crime policies as it is laid out when he was not only attorney general, but governor.
So the timing on that, Mitch, could be very interesting as we get towards the end of this year. We appreciate the information this morning. We've got extensive coverage onto Carlos Brown Jr. and this ongoing legal saga over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. Mitch Gokai from the John Locke Foundation joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
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Want to once again remind you that it is National Hurricane Preparedness Week. This is an event that takes place each and every year. It is a combination of the National Weather Service and their offices all across the United States, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and Emergency Management officials here in North Carolina, urging citizens to get prepared for hurricane season. It'll be here before we know it. The season officially kicks off on June the 1st.
We do not yet have the full outlook from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They are set to release that coming up here on Thursday, May the 21st. We've got links to everything that you need to know about that. There's a topic for every single day, as well as some other tips, not only from officials. At the National Weather Service, but some commentary from Governor Josh Stein, Director Will Ray of North Carolina Emergency Management.
Those details over on our website this morning, CarolinaJournal.com. Look for the story with the headline: State Officials Urge Caution for Hurricane Preparedness Week. Coming up next week, the North Carolina General Assembly is once again set to be back in Raleigh starting on Tuesday the 12th. We will be keeping an eye on everything moving in Raleigh as we continue our coverage of the legislative short session right here on the Carolina Journal. News Hour.
That's going to do it for a Friday edition. WBT News is next, followed by Good Morning BT. We're back with you Monday morning, 5 to 6, right here on Charlotte's FM News Talk 107.9 WBT.
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