This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. We spent more than a few words yesterday wondering if Congress would manage to pass a spending […]
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Will the Government Shut Down Tomorrow? Stay Tuned.
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. To shutdown, or not to shutdown? That, apparently, is our favorite new question. Basically, Republicans have spent […]
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Children’s Health Insurance Program on Life Support
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Things are not looking good for the CHIP, the health insurance program that covers about nine million […]
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GOP Tax Bonanza Clears House and Senate
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. As expected, the Republican tax cut bonanza passed the House and Senate yesterday, paving the way for […]
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In Upset Victory, Virginia House Race Comes Down to a Nail-Biting One Vote
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Virginia Democrats appear to have notched a key victory in the state House of Delegates after a […]
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What’s Behind the Legislature’s Plan to Overhaul the State Court System?
State Democrats and fair courts groups are sounding the alarm over a string of recent proposals from the GOP-led General Assembly that would dramatically reshape the judiciarya brazen attempt, they say, to politicize the judicial branch and change the makeup of the courts in Republicans’ favor. The reconfiguration coincides with a series of legislative setbacks […]
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Tonight: Dismayed by Judicial Changes, Advocates Hold Fair Courts Town Hall in Chapel Hill
Advocates opposed to recent changes that would alter the judicial branch in North Carolina will hold a town hall in Chapel Hill tonight at seven p.m. The event comes two days after the North Carolina Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against Senate leader Phil Berger, House Speaker Tim Moore, the North Carolina State Board of […]
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North Carolina Democratic Party Files Lawsuit Challenging the Legislature’s Elimination of Judicial Primaries
The North Carolina Democratic Party filed a lawsuit yesterday over the Republican-controlled legislature’s recent move to eliminate judicial primaries in the 2018 election. The General Assembly got rid of the primaries after overriding Governor Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 656, The Electoral Freedom Act. In addition to eliminating with judicial primaries, the bill also reduces […]
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This Week Could Mark the End of the Web as We Know It
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission, led by Republican Ajit Pai, will almost certainly vote 3–2 to repeal rules put in place by the FCC during President Obama’s administration that are commonly referred to as net neutrality. In short, net neutrality seeks to equalize the internet playing field. But its detractors—namely, big telecoms and their […]
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Analysis: Under GOP Tax Plan, Tens of Thousands of Triangle Residents Would Lose Health Care Coverage
Tens of thousands of Triangle residents could lose health coverage if the Senate’s version of the tax bill passes, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. That’s due to a provision in the GOP bill that would eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s much-loathed individual mandate, which requires everyone to purchase health […]