This morning, Governor Pat McCrory gave a short interview to WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jessica Jones which you can find here and here. There was a substantial amount of mouthbreathing, sighing, and aggressively interrupting Jones’s questions—at least three different times. This is not unusual for McCrory. In interviews, he seems to have a wily, indignant […]
Aaron Lake Smith
Bio: Aaron Smith is the Raleigh Bureau Chief of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]
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20 arrested for Moral Monday civil disobedience
Yesterday, Moral Monday gathered for the fourth straight week to protest the General Assembly’s austere cuts that will hurt poor North Carolinians. This week’s march focused on worker’s rights, highlighting the participation of labor unions, NC Raise Up, teachers, and women’s groups. Youth organizers also kicked off a “Moral Freedom Summer” timed with the 50th […]
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Judge rules against anti-Moral Monday Legislative Building rules
A Wake County judge has issued a temporary restraining order against three parts of a controversial set of building rules passed by General Assembly lawmakers this summer. The ruling came about from a complaint filed by the North Carolina NAACP. The Legislative Services Commission passed the new rules this June just as Moral Monday protests […]
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McCrory nominee Charlton Allen has history of homophobic smear tactics
Charlton L. Allen, Pat McCrory’s controversial nominee for the state Industrial Commission answered questions yesterday in front of irate Senate Democrats in the Commerce Committee about his racist, anti-semitic, anti-Arab acts and anti-worker views. Allen rebuffed accusations of anti-semitism by saying his grandfather liberated Jews from concentration camps during World War II. The questioning was […]
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Attorney General denies preliminary injunction in federal Amendment One lawsuit
Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office has rejected a motion for a preliminary injunction challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina’s discriminatory marriage law. The federal lawsuit was filed by United Church of Christ in Asheville on behalf of Carol Taylor and Betty Mack, an elderly same-sex couple, and argued that Amendment One violates both the First […]
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Gov. McCrory’s appointment, Charlton Allen has a racially dubious past
Dressing up in Arab garb and attacking a Gulf War peace encampment. Protesting the construction of UNC’s Black Cultural Center. Portraying a Jewish student presidential candidate with horns and a pitchfork on the front cover of his college magazine. This is the man who Gov. Pat McCrory nominated for an important position on a state […]
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N.C. House passes problematic “Respect for Prayer in Schools” bill
Yesterday, the NC House passed SB 370, the “Respect for Student Prayer/Religious Liberty” bill which doesn’t really do much but assure students of their right to pray—a right they already had under the First Amendment. The bill passed with a wild majority. Only 9 Democrats voted against it. None of them could be reached on […]
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Cary’s complex
Cary, as is well known, is an affluent Wake County suburb that ranks as one of the safest places in the country. Its police force is one of the most highly paid in the state, and they don’t let you forget it. They are omnipresent, in their shark-like cruisers, with their slick, nearly cybernetic good […]
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11 Moral Monday protestors locked in State Capitol building during sit-in
Yesterday, Moral Monday held a rally to call attention to environmental injustice plaguing the state as well as to put a face to the cost of cutting and denying citizens Medicaid. Reverend Barber and protestors walked into the state capitol to attend to hand Governor McCrory a letter asking him to repeal his harmful policies. […]
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Tillis sit-in arrestees not allowed back to Legislative building until Moral Monday is over
According to documents held by Wake County Clerk of Superior Court, the 15 fast food workers and pastors who were arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience in Thom Tillis’s office earlier this week are not allowed back at the General Assembly until July 11th, after Moral Monday is over. Rev. Barber and the NAACP held a […]