Some solidly held Democratic seats in the state House and Senate in North Carolina may be at risk in this November’s General Election.
news in the Tarheel state has nothing to do with the primary elections. As reported by Carolina Journal, the latest Civitas Poll show an absolute political crisis for North Carolina Democrats they are virtually powerless to address.
Neither state Senate Democrat who initially voted for the Free the Smiles legislation last month was willing to stick with that “yes” vote this week. Both of their “yes” votes turned into “no” when they had a chance to help override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the school masking measure. The flip from “yes” to...
Republicans last overrode a Cooper veto in August of 2018, on a bill dealing with judicial elections.
The North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership’s Hometown Debate Series concluded Thursday, Oct. 17, in Henderson, as legislators and policy advocates debated the delivery of medical services. Panelists also addressed topics from the three earlier debates: Medicaid expansion, the rural-urban health care divide, and the future of telemedicine, to name a few. Since 2016, the...
State Democrats accomplished a major goal in Tuesday’s midterm election, breaking the Republican Party’s supermajority in the General Assembly. Unofficial results show the GOP, which has a 75-45 advantage in the 2017 session — three votes more than needed to override a veto by Gov. Roy Cooper with a unified caucus — lost nine seats....
A resolution calling for a constitutional convention of states may get a vote in the N.C. House after it passed a Wednesday committee vote . Senate Joint Resolution 36 is sponsored by several Republicans and aims to call a constitutional convention under the powers given to state legislatures in Article V of the U.S. Constitution. The Senate...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won easily against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary, while casino mogul Donald Trump staved off a late surge by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to claim victory in the GOP presidential contest. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton bested Sanders 55 percent to 41 percent,...
North Carolina House District 32 will have a new representative next year, and it appears likely it will be either seven-term Vance County commissioner Terry Garrison or Gary Lamont Miles Sr. Attorney Nathan Baskerville, a Democrat who has represented the region encompassing Vance, Warren, and part of Granville counties for the last two terms, is...
NCACC First Vice President Terry Garrison of Vance County and Wake County Manager David Cooke presented on Jan. 11 the county perspective on financing the state/federal Medicaid program to the House Select Committee on Health Care’s Medicaid Subcommittee.
