The N.C. Senate followed the House’s lead Monday, Aug. 27, as it voted along party lines to address court concerns and pass a pair of proposed constitutional amendments. The House on Friday passed the bills creating a new state elections board…
FAYETTEVILLE — Although top national environmental regulators confirmed GenX and related chemical compounds are used to produce solar panel components, they say their research does not prioritize what risks that might pose to the environment and human health. Peter Grevatt, national director…
UPDATE: Supreme Court candidate Chris Anglin responded to the N.C. Court of Appeals decision to deny an appeal from legislative leaders. “I’m grateful for the Court of Appeals swift decision re-affirming that my constitutional rights were harmed by the actions of the legislature,” Anglin said in a prepared statement. “We…
Two replacement constitutional amendments have sailed through the House, but whether voters ever see them is far from decided. The Republican-led General Assembly made clear it doesn’t intend to shift thousands of state board appointments from the governor to the legislature or to severely weaken the…
The potential impact of unaffiliated voters on the upcoming election was the focus of the Thursday, Aug. 23 discussion of latest statewide poll by Civitas. “Unaffiliated voters are the fastest growing and second largest block of voters in the state,” Donald Bryson,…
With an election deadline looming, Republican legislative leaders are calling a special legislative session Friday, Aug. 24, to rewrite two constitutional amendments a three-judge Superior Court panel removed from the Nov. 6 general election ballot. GOP leaders maintain the panel erred by issuing…
The six living retired N.C. Supreme Court chief justices have signed onto a letter opposing two constitutional amendments that sit now in legal limbo. Retired Chief Justices Rhoda Billings, James Exum, Henry Frye, Beverly Lake, Burley Mitchell, and Sarah Parker signed the “Statement of Concerned Lawyers.” Billings and Lake…
After a historic protest that ended in the illegal takedown of Silent Sam, a Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill, the university faces tough inquiries about campus security and law enforcement. A striking question — about how a handful of people tore down a weighty statue…
The N.C. Historical Commission said it is hamstrung by state law and a legislature that won’t allow controversial Confederate monuments on the old Capitol grounds in Raleigh to be moved. But on Wednesday, Aug. 22, the commission adopted three resolutions to protect the objects of…
Three Constitution Party candidates will return to N.C. election ballots, now that a federal judge has granted them a preliminary injunction against the state’s “sore loser” law. Judge Louise Flanagan’s 17-page order gives ballot access to N.C. House District 90 candidate James Poindexter, as well as county commissioner…
