A 2,367 square-foot house, built about 2016, sits deep in the woods off Poplar Hill Road east of Fayetteville. You can’t see the house from the street. Signs in the driveway say, “Smile. You’re on camera.” Tax bills for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 list the owners as Robert and Dion Clark with a property...
Lawmakers are developing rules for the freshly passed voter ID constitutional amendment. But nobody believes the law will take effect without a pitched court battle. One voting law expert has a suggestion. “I would recommend that the state legislature include a provision in any enabling legislation that gives the legislature the power to appoint a...
State Sen. Ben Clark, D-Hoke, survived an eligibility challenge that could have knocked him out of his re-election race a few days before the May 8 primary. But his credibility took some blows. The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement voted 7-1 Thursday, May 3, to uphold a three-member local election board decision...
Democratic primary, state Senate District 21, Hoke and part of Cumberland county Ben Clark (incumbent, three terms). Retired from Air Force as lieutenant colonel. Education: N.C. A&T University, industrial technology degree; George Washington University, graduate level teacher certification; Southern Illinois University, MBA. Occupation: Information technology manager. Career highlights: Serves as the legislative Democratic Caucus Secretary,...
Lawmakers won’t consider race when they redraw legislative maps to meet a Sept. 1 federal court deadline. Republicans on the House and Senate redistricting committee made that clear as they swatted down repeated objections from Democrats in a Thursday committee meeting. The decision not to use race was one of nine criteria the committee adopted...
