Advocates challenge voting restrictions in NC
Voter turnout has increased since the last non-presidential election, but state advocacy groups want November’s general election to be exempt from voting ...
Read More »Voter turnout has increased since the last non-presidential election, but state advocacy groups want November’s general election to be exempt from voting ...
Read More »In a time of rising health care costs and lack of Medicaid expansion, new N.C. tax laws will stop state agencies from collecting patients’ tax returns ...
Read More »Moral Monday participants may be willing to risk arrest, but this week the 11 protesters detained by police were given citations and released that evening. ...
Read More »A bill to double the length of North Carolina legislators’ terms would allow lawmakers to spend less time and money fundraising for re-elections.
Read More »After years of budget cuts, the UNC system would see no major reductions under the N.C. Senate’s budget proposal, finalized last week.
Read More »In its first 37 years, the multi-campus UNC system never experienced the financial strains it has been grappling with since the 2008 recession.
Read More »At the end of this week’s Moral Monday protest, some participants were not done being heard.
Read More »A bill that would allow fracking for natural gas reached the N.C. House of Representatives this week — reviving a debate that dates back several ...
Read More »North Carolina may enact a mandatory child abuse education curriculum — potentially joining the 13 other states with child abuse education and prevention ...
Read More »Some people in North Carolina are forced to turn to the nearest corner store or fast food restaurant when hungry.
Read More »Gov. Pat McCrory wants to give in-state tuition benefits to veterans attending community colleges — but it’s still up in the air if the state will ...
Read More »Students from across the Triangle greeted the attendees of a legislative task force for education with two signs Monday — one depicting a sturdy ladder ...
Read More »Colleagues said it will take several people to fill the vacuum that Gerry Cohen, special counsel to the N.C. General Assembly, will leave behind ...
Read More »North Carolina teachers upset with low pay and recent cuts to public education were planning to walk out of the classroom Nov. 4 to send a message to ...
Read More »The energy from the NAACP-sponsored rally held at Peace & Justice Plaza Wednesday was carried into the Chapel Hill Post Office as the candidates hoping ...
Read More »I for one wasn’t expecting a 2013 N.C. General Assembly session that pulsed on for the entire summer, outlasting my tenure as The Daily Tar Heel’s ...
Read More »For more than 35 years, Robert Epting has been flying in and out of Horace Williams Airport. And for much of the time he’s been using it, he said, Chapel ...
Read More »A popular tax holiday geared toward back-to-school shoppers is set to end after this year, and some local school officials say they have concerns about ...
Read More »The proposed election omnibus bill could restrict where college students cast their ballots.
Read More »Students, faculty and leaders from colleges across the state came together last week to further discussions on energy conservation — with an ultimate ...
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