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Three Republicans vie to take on Marshall

Our state’s constitutional system mirrors the federal system in some ways. North Carolina has three branches of government, for example. We have a bicameral legislature. And we have a judiciary composed of trial courts, a court of appeals, and a supreme court. There are also critical differences, however. One is that while the federal system...

John Hood
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Sec of State Marshall asks legislature for more agency staffing

At August’s Council of State meeting, North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said her department faced “a crisis” over inadequate funding for agency staff. Addressing elected members of N.C.’s Executive Branch, Marshall, a Democrat who has served since 1997, said her department’s 185 employees have been required “to do more and more and more...

Grant Lefelar
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Record businesses growth, avian bird flu focus of Council of State meeting

New business growth in North Carolina shows no signs of stopping according to Secretary of State Elaine Marshall. “Nothing has slowed down. In fact, it has accelerated,” she said at the Tuesday, April 4 Council of State meeting. A new record was set for the first quarter of this year with nearly 47,000 new businesses...

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Republican Council of State majority will make policy impacts

Republicans can take a breath, even if their signature red is mixed with myriad shades of blue.  They keep control of the N.C. Council of State, 6-4, albeit with narrow margins in all the races. The results remain unofficial. Elections officials are dealing with 41,000 provisional and 94,900 outstanding absentee ballots, which either will be...

John Trump

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Republicans Daoud, LaPaglia Vow To Modernize Secretary of State Office

In some election races, the candidates disagree about the greatest challenge facing the office they are seeking. That isn’t the case in the contest between A.J. Daoud and Michael LaPaglia, the two Republicans seeking to displace long-time Democratic Secretary of State Elaine Marshall. Both LaPaglia and Daoud think that the secretary of state’s office under Marshall...

Michael Lowrey