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NC joins lawsuit over FEMA grant conditions

NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island on July 23 against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in homeland security and disaster-response grants to states unless they adopt the Trump administration policies on elections and immigration.

Theresa Opeka
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Education bills that stalled in committee reappear in new budget

A stalled slate of North Carolina education bills — from teacher licensure changes to a K-8 math screener and a school attendance pilot — didn't die in committee but were folded into the roughly $34 billion state budget lawmakers sent to Gov. Josh Stein on July 2.

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NCInnovation weighs private future amid endowment clawback threat

NCInnovation’s board of directors is weighing how the nonprofit could survive and operate more like a private entity, potentially with some state money, if state lawmakers claw back most or all of its $500 million taxpayer-funded endowment.

Donna King

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Cooper leads DC delegation pushing for federal hurricane relief

Gov. Roy Cooper led a delegation of state and local leaders to Washington, D.C. this week, requesting $25.57 billion in federal aid for Helene recovery support. Cooper met with President Biden and North Carolina federal legislators Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd and Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-D11.

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Tillis, Budd demand answers from FEMA on efforts in western North Carolina

North Carolina Republican US Sens Thom Tillis and Ted Budd led a letter with 17 of their Senate colleagues to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell about concerns that FEMA employees were advised to avoid homes that had Trump yard signs, not only in Florida after Hurricane Milton, but possibly in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, raising grave concerns over potential widespread politicization of disaster relief.  

Theresa Opeka
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