Opinion
Blust still wants to get the rules right
Regardless of who's in charge, one Guilford County lawmaker pushes for greater transparency and less concentration of power.
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House overrides first Cooper veto; Senate will consider it Thursday
The House on Wednesday afternoon swatted down Gov. Roy Cooper’s first veto in a 74-44 override vote that would reinstate House Bill 100. The measure restores a longstanding practice of identifying District and Superior court judicial candidates on election ballots by political party registration. The Senate scheduled a vote on a veto override Thursday. Cooper...
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UPDATE: House passes bill adding partisan labels to judicial candidates
(UPDATED, 4:05 p.m. Wednesday. The House passed the bill, 65-51. After the vote, Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, issued a statement including the following: “North Carolina already identifies party affiliation in other judicial elections, so it is not a new approach to provide local voters this information. This informed elections process of providing party identification is...
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House Approves Some Reforms
RALEIGH — The N.C. House adopted its first permanent rules in the post-Jim Black era Tuesday, but a vocal critic of the former speaker blasted House colleagues for “missing a major opportunity.”
