Speaker Thom Tillis has declared this “Education Week” in the House and has invited school superintendents and top principals from across the state ...
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Cross-posted from The Progressive Pulse As expected, Republican members of the North Carolina House Finance Committee quickly approved a massive overhaul of state ...
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The North Carolina State Board of Education approved measures Thursday that will add rigor to the charter school application process and temporarily delay ...
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Two stories in the latest of flurry of election news are especially disturbing and graphic reminders of how perverted our democracy has become ...
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The last speaker at the memorial service Wednesday for former UNC President William Friday was his longtime assistant Virginia Taylor who told the ...
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You don’t have to listen to the political debate in North Carolina for long before someone brings up the $2.8 billion the state ...
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Last night’s session of the House of Representatives was sadly emblematic of the 2011 session. Late into the night, lawmakers shoveled bill after ...
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As today’s Weekly Briefing makes clear, the Republicans’ promising start to the 2011 session is quickly degenerating into a chaotic conclusion. Further evidence ...
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Members of the House Business Lobbyist’s Commerce Committee will take up what appears to be one of the more nonsensical legislative proposals of the session ...
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It’s hard to keep track of all the absurd gibberish coming out of the General Assembly these days. This is especially true in the numerous ...
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Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt expressed great frustration this morning at the latest overnight rewrite of the Senate budget. Nesbitt strongly attacked both ...
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Fay Walton wrote out a suicide note last week, letting the thought of being worth more dead than alive step out from where ...
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After yesterday’s maddening budget exercise in the Senate, the big action on Jones Street shifts to the House of Representatives today. At noon, ...
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Activists and advocates concerned about the policy choices advanced by the conservative majorities at the General Assembly this year will convene a “people’s ...
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The North Carolina Senate Republicans released their budget and tax proposals this morning. For the most part, there is little to distinguish them from the ...
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A House Judiciary subcommittee debated the proposal to repeal the Racial Justice Act this morning. You can watch a video of the entire committee ...
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