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Chapel Hill is no stranger to presidential campaigns.
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Chapel Hill is no stranger to presidential campaigns.
After one of the longest sessions held in its history, the General Assembly adjourned until April. The legislature was able to accomplish some important things during the long session, but one item still has yet to pass: the state’s budget for 2020-2021.
Civil rights activist and former N.C. Sen. Floyd McKissick Jr., D-Durham, recently submitted his resignation from the N.C. Senate. This move comes in the wake of McKissick’s appointment to the state’s Utilities Commission, which he joined on Jan. 7.
North Carolina may experience a historic change to the state Senate in the 2020 election. Four years after the enactment of House Bill 2 — the North Carolina law that prohibits transgender individuals from using the bathrooms aligning with their gender identities — the state may have its first two openly transgender state legislators.
North Carolina will likely be gaining another congressional seat after the 2020 Census, which would raise the number of representatives in the state to 14.
As it stands, North Carolina voters will not be required to show photo identification through at least the March 3 primary election.
When the UNC System announced it had settled a lawsuit that the public hadn’t yet heard about last week, Kevin Stone began celebrating his secret role in a “major strategic victory” for the pro-Confederate movement.
Despite legal roadblocks from the legacy of House Bill 2, the Town of Chapel Hill has recently received its highest score for municipal LGBTQ equality.
Chapel Hill, a 200-year-old town filled with history and Carolina Blue, is in no way immune to the passage of time. In one decade, the Town has seen its own rise out of an economic downturn, multiple classes of college students, new businesses come and go and shifts in the cultural and political identities of the town’s residents.
The leadership of the UNC System Board of Governors changed drastically between the time Tom Ross became UNC System president in 2011 and when he was forced to resign in 2015.
A Republican investigation into Gov. Roy Cooper’s influence on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project concluded that he “improperly used the authority and influence of his office."
Stacks of paper, several inches in height, are presented before the General Assembly every year to be debated extensively. Each blot of ink printed on them has the potential to directly impact North Carolina residents.
During the last week and a half, the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has begun conducting public impeachment hearings into the conduct of President Donald Trump. The allegations center on whether the president leveraged aid to the Ukraine in order to have former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, investigated over his ties to a Ukrainian energy company.
The Superior Court of Wake County indefinitely suspended the filing period for candidates seeking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday.
A group of students walked out of a sparsely attended lecture by Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, on Wednesday afternoon in protest.
The League of Women Voters of Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties held a “Gerrymander Bash” Saturday afternoon to inform the public of the dangers of gerrymandering while also having some fun.
The OC Voice is a portion of the OC Report newsletter where local residents may have a platform to talk about local issues they care about. Graig Meyer is the State Representative for House District 50, covering portions of Orange and Durham Counties. He can be contacted at graig.meyer@ncleg.net.
Sally Merryman didn’t become a Spanish teacher to get rich.
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., will be introducing a bill to tax student-athlete scholarships like income if those students choose to profit off of their likenesses, he announced in an Oct. 29 tweet.
North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson announced Tuesday that he will forgo reelection in 2020 and instead run for lieutenant governor.