Hey, remember that time presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump mocked New York Times investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski for a disability — arthrogryposis — that severely limits the movement of his arms? Yeah… that time. Well, a Super-PAC supporting Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton isn’t going to let North Carolinians forget it, nor […]
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Durham County’s Department of Social Services Wants More Money to Help Foster Parents
Durham County’s Department of Social Services is trying to recruit more foster parents to deal with a startling trend of kids who need to be placed in foster care. But to do that, it needs more money. In his recommended budget, county manager Wendell Davis acknowledged that the DSS “has experienced unprecedented growth in the […]
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The Morning Roundup: Hillary Gets All Presumptive, Pat Gets All Veto-y
Good morning. It’s second primary day, including what may be THE most important race in North Carolina. Hint: Vote for Judge Mike Morgan. But first, there are some other primaries happening today, too. 1. It’s Hillary, says the math. And also, The Associated Press: Eight years after conceding she was unable to “shatter that highest, […]
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Rep. G.K Butterfield Talks About His Visit With Wildin Acosta
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC-1) says he saw nothing wrong with prison conditions nor treatment of inmates when he toured the entire facility of Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia recently. “It was clean,” he says. “It was spacious. It was state-of-the art – as state-of-the-art goes for a prison facility.” Regardless, he says it pains […]
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Angry McCrory Slams “Obama Courts” for Transgender Bathroom Ruling
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is boiling mad about that Fourth Circuit ruling on Tuesday to deny review of a Virginia bathroom rights case that went in a transgender teen’s favor. The Fourth Circuit includes North Carolina. So McCrory has good reason to sweat over the fate of his beloved HB 2, and his own […]
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N.C. Senate Tries, Again, to Shut Down Wright School in Durham
The North Carolina Senate Appropriations/Base Budget Committee on Wednesday took up the latest annual proposal to shut down Wright School, a Durham residential campus of the N.C. Department of Health & Human Services for kids with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. Here’s the text of a item from the Proposed Senate Committee Substitute for House […]
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Remembering Howard Clement III, a Durham Civil Rights Icon
The burgeoning political skills of Howard Clement III, then a North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance executive, were tested rigorously as he helped lead a boycott of white Durham merchants from 1968–1969. It was then that he began building his legacy as a local civil rights icon. Clement would go on to serve thirty years on […]
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No, Guardian: Durham Is Not a Rundown Southern Backwater
“They call it ‘Bull City,’ though, with the exception of a downtown statue, there are no bulls and there’s no evidence that there ever were.” That sentence begins Sunday’s generally pointless Guardian piece by Michael Keenan Gutierrez, a UNC writing instructor who lives in Chapel Hill, titled “A Postcard from Durham: Keeping It Dirty in […]
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Virginia Transgender Teen Scores Another Legal Win, With Implications for HB 2
The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina is celebrating a denial of appeal in the case of a transgender student in Virginia, who successfully sued his school board over its discriminatory bathroom policy. In April, the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of appeals handed sixteen-year-old Gavin Grimm as victory over the Gloucester County School Board […]
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The Morning Roundup: Greensboro Police to RNC Convention: No Thanks, Y’all Are Too Crazy
Good Tuesday morning, folks. We hope you enjoyed a fun, relaxing three-day weekend with loved ones. It’s time to play a little “catch-up” with the state’s news, shall we?1. Greensboro police decide against providing security at Cleveland’s RNC Convention in July.From ABC News: The Greensboro Police Department in North Carolina has rescinded its offer to […]
