At trial, facts can mislead

At the nuisance trial in Raleigh, Steve Wing was testifying about his views on hog farms. Wing was both a researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill – and an officer in a nonprofit organization that filed complaints about the hog industry. He died of cancer in 2016 and so his...

Eastern North Carolina is under attack

There is an astonishing story being told in a federal courtroom in Raleigh right now. It’s coming from a Texas lawyer named Michael Kaeske. He’s speaking to 12 jurors, trying to sell them on the notion that a hog farm in North Carolina is a legal nuisance – one that...