While it is still very ridiculous, if you were going to cover this story shouldn’t you have covered it in Aug of 2012, which is the date of the ABC report you linked to?
My guess is you just saw this link on the front page of reddit, where it was recently posted as a TIL: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1kvg59/til_nc_banned_the_use_of_scientific_predictions/.
If you want to cover ridiculous things going on in NC right now, there are (unfortunately) no shortage of current events that qualify.
