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Cooper names members to controversial new commission on UNC governance

Governor Roy Cooper has appointed members to his Governor's Commission on the Governance of Public Universities in North Carolina. Earlier this month, Governor Cooper signed an Executive Order establishing the Commission tasked with recommending changes to how the University of North Carolina System is governed. However, that governance is already set in state law as the responsibility of the state legislature, so any changes would have to go through lawmakers.

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GOP leaders cry foul at suggestion taxpayers should pay redistricting ‘special masters’

Following the 2020 census, the Democrat-majority state Supreme Court imposed new maps drawn by “special masters.” A document filed in Superior Court lays out fees submitted by the special masters and their assistants. It shows $195,138.39 for eight days of work.

David Larson
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Duke symposium pushes for further redistricting reform

There is broad agreement that North Carolina is better suited to handle redistricting in a more transparent fashion than a decade ago, but further improvements can be made to the process according to a wide spectrum of speakers at Duke University’s Redistricting and American Democracy two day symposium. The event included scholars, judges, and activists from...

Dallas Woodhouse
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Second redistricting reform bill emphasizes rules and transparency

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers Thursday introduced the second of what may be several measures to reform North Carolina’s redistricting process. The two bills share several sponsors. But House Bill 140, Fairness and Integrity in Redistricting, rolled out at a morning news conference, not only would change state law but also would ask voters...

Rick Henderson
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As Spellings departs, she says her time to lead UNC has come and gone

The leader of the University of North Carolina System announced she is leaving her post after just 2 1/2 years on the job. UNC President Margaret Spellings, former U.S. secretary of education under the George W. Bush administration, offered her resignation Oct. 26, 2018. Her departure will be effective March 1, 2019. Spellings was elected...

Kari Travis

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Redistricting forum pushes need to inform public of ‘problem’

North Carolina’s legislative and congressional districts are ensnared in several court fights, and a conference sponsored by Common Cause examined a host of issues surrounding those battles. But the conference, at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy in early March, focused on raising public awareness of perceived problems surrounding gerrymandering — and encouraging even more...

Sam A. Hieb
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