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(07/14/16 9:22am)
10 to 15 percent of North Carolina law enforcement agencies currently deploy body cameras, but that figure is increasing rapidly, said N.C. Rep. Allen McNeill, R-Randolph. McNeill served as a police officer for over 25 years and recently authored House Bill 972, which addresses access to police ‘body cam’ footage.
(07/07/16 6:47am)
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign season, Republicans have levied numerous and varied attacks against current presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but none have been as consistent as voicing concern over the ongoing investigation into then-Secretary of State Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time in the State Department.
(06/30/16 5:59am)
When Hillary Clinton started her presidential campaign early in 2015, she seemed to have a clear path to a virtually uncontested victory. But after a long, often gritty battle with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s seemingly imminent nomination by the Democratic Party has left some on the progressive fringe of the liberal movement unsatisfied.
(06/23/16 4:06am)
During former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt's time in office, the state experienced the largest period of economic growth in its history, bolstering its investment in world class public higher education and modernizing the state's economy.
(06/21/16 8:08pm)
After being hired as the new president of the UNC system, Margaret Spellings has recently completed a tour of all 17 UNC campuses. She sat down with Daily Tar Heel state and national editor Cole Stanley on Monday to discuss what her visits taught her and what plans she has for UNC and its students going forward.
(06/15/16 7:04pm)
Donald Trump has faced a good deal of controversy from both his partisan opposition and his self-proclaimed ideological peers over the course of his presidential campaign.
(06/16/16 4:28am)
Donald Trump has faced a good deal of controversy from both his partisan opposition and his self-proclaimed ideological peers over the course of his presidential campaign.
(06/08/16 9:28pm)
When Renee Ellmers, the first Congressperson to endorse the current GOP nominee Donald Trump, began her reelection bid in the newly redrawn District 2 of North Carolina, she called in a favor from Trump, who endorsed Ellmers and made robocalls across the state on her behalf.
(06/01/16 9:56pm)
The University of North Carolina system told a federal court Friday it won’t enforce House Bill 2, which would require transgender students to use the restroom which corresponds to the sex on their birth certificates.
(05/27/16 8:02pm)
During Friday's meeting in Chapel Hill, the UNC-system Board of Governors voted to approve sending a letter to N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, stating that if he will not defend the Board against litigation resulting from the passage of House Bill 2, his office will be expected to cover the cost of hiring outside counsel.
(05/25/16 10:04pm)
For hundreds of families across North Carolina, the CAP-C Medicaid program, which provides financial support to families of children living with disabilities, is a crucial resource that meets the functional needs of their children, allowing parents access to opportunities such as working outside of the home.
(05/26/16 8:13pm)
In January, Maryland Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams denied the last of multiple requests for a change of venue in the case against the six Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. These requests argued the riots and violence against police which followed Gray’s death could easily bias jurors out of fear of retaliation if they found the officers not guilty.
(05/20/16 8:58pm)
Over 4 million U.S. workers became newly eligible for
overtime pay Wednesday after a rule was issued by the Obama administration.
(05/18/16 10:15pm)
On Monday, the North Carolina House of Representatives released this year’s budget plan. The proposed plan would make several substantive changes including repealing excise taxation on manufacturing machinery, providing a tax cut to the majority of taxpayers who make more than $95,000 annually, and a pay raise for North Carolina teachers. This raise would average 4.1 percent of current salaries and raise average teacher pay to $50,000 by 2018.
(05/12/16 8:27pm)
For years, many North Carolina municipalities, including Asheville, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, have supported what has come to be known as "sanctuary city" policies, which instruct law enforcement not to question immigration status, and to take a more lenient stance on deportation. The rationale is typically that those law enforcement personnel would then be freer to focus on more pressing matters such as violent crimes.
(05/16/16 10:09pm)
In a usual election year, the two major U.S. parties would typically coalesce around a presumptive nominee who has locked up a plurality of votes months before the end of the primary season. But with the GOP convention fast approaching and Donald Trump the standard bearer of the Republican Party, major figures in conservative politics are emerging to voice their resistance to Trump or, in some cases, throw their support behind Hillary Clinton, his likely Democratic challenger in November.
(05/12/16 3:30am)
With North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory suing the federal Department of Justice on Monday and the DoJ responding with a countersuit just hours later, it is important to remember how exactly we got here. Here is a timeline of the events which led up to and resulted from the passage of House Bill 2.
(05/11/16 9:38pm)
When new voter-ID laws caused problems at the polls during North Carolina’s March 15 primaries, proponents of the laws defended them by claiming they were enacted to protect against voter fraud. On Thursday, electoral fraud was discovered in at least one location, and it is election officials, rather than voters, who have allegedly skewed the results of Durham’s primary elections by misreporting and fabricating final vote counts.
(05/10/16 12:09am)
Just hours after North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and Secretary Frank Perry filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday to defend the implementation of House Bill 2, the DOJ filed a countersuit against the two top N.C. officials, as well as the University of North Carolina, the UNC Board of Governors and the N.C. Department of Public Safety.
(05/09/16 8:35pm)
UPDATE: The DOJ files a countersuit against North Carolina Governor Pat McCory and Secretary Frank Perry, as well as the University of North Carolina, the UNC Board of Governors and the N.C. Department of Public Safety.