Replacement for former Sen. Kinnaird to be chosen
For 17 years, legislative assistant Kathie Young has been answering constituents’ phone calls on behalf of N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird.
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For 17 years, legislative assistant Kathie Young has been answering constituents’ phone calls on behalf of N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird.
RALEIGH — During the State Board of Elections’ meeting Tuesday, two hotly contested issues, student voting and involvement, were decided in an overflowing boardroom.
Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday on the Peace & Justice Plaza, almost spilling over onto Franklin Street, with signs and chants that showed a growing discontent with state politics.
Almost immediately after Ellie Kinnaird announced her resignation from the N.C. Senate seat she held for 17 years, four politicians have announced their intent to fill it.
After 17 years serving Orange County as one of the most liberal voices in the N.C. Senate, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange, is leaving an increasingly conservative legislature.
Jason Melehani, 25, a UNC-CH Ph.D. and M.D. student at the UNC School of Medicine, was recently appointed executive director of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina.
Just a week after Gov. Pat McCrory signed new voting requirements into law, students across the state are seeing the effects.
July 26 marked the end of Republicans’ first legislative session since taking control of both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly and the governor’s mansion in November — the first time in 140 years.
When Priscilla Alden first started working in North Carolina’s information technology sector more than 20 years ago, personal computers were exciting, new and rarely used.
In September 2010, a female UNC student said that she walked into a planned sexual assault by two UNC football players, one of whom she was casually dating.
Three N.C. universities were on lockdown last week after gunmen were reportedly spotted on each campus — but outcomes ranged from a student being shot to an umbrella being mistaken for a rifle.
A minority male leadership conference in Chapel Hill this week has sparked conflict within the UNC-system Association of Student Governments.
Former Gov. Bev Perdue will be heading back to school this semester.
Former Gov. Bev Perdue has a quote from a “great philosopher” framed. It’s been hanging on her wall for years.
In one of her first public appearances since leaving the Governor’s Mansion, Bev Perdue will discuss leadership and living a public life.
North Carolina teachers with concealed carry permits could be allowed to bring weapons on school grounds, depending on the outcome of an upcoming state debate on gun laws.
Before she was booed at a UNC basketball game in January, before she announced she would not seek re-election in the face of crippling poll numbers, before she was ranked by Public Policy Polling as the most unpopular governor in the country — before all that, Beverly Perdue was considered a rising star.
In early 2013, the UNC-system Board of Governors will set the course of the system for the next five years.
The next president of the United States will be decided today, and North Carolinians could play a key role.
Funding for Planned Parenthood has once again come under scrutiny this election.