In a move that was disappointing but not particularly shocking to activists, the N.C. Historical Commission voted nearly unanimously this morning to postpone a decision on removing Confederate monuments from the state capitol in downtown Raleigh. The decision came in response to a petition sent by Governor Cooper’s administration earlier this month to remove three […]
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The Latest Attempt to Repeal the ACA Would Be Disastrous for North Carolinia
It’s back. The latest, last-ditch attempt by Republican lawmakers to destroy President Obama’s signature health law, the Affordable Care Act, has appeared in the form of something called Graham-Cassidy, the brainchild of Republican Senators Lindsay Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Like its predecessors, it would target some of the most vulnerable […]
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The N.C. DEQ Delays Making a Decision on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
In a coup for environmentalists, the Department of Environmental Quality delayed a decision on whether to issue a permit for the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a multibillion-dollar, six-hundred-mile project that would carry fracked gas through Virginia, West Virginia, and eastern North Carolina. The DEQ faced a September 18 deadline to deny or permit the water-quality […]
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A Raleigh Shelter Is Looking for Adopters After Receiving Thirty Cats Displaced by Hurricane Irma. You Should Get One!
Raleigh’s no-kill cat shelter, SAFE Haven for Cats, is urgently looking for local adoptees after receiving an emergency shipment of thirty cats from Jacksonville, Florida. The twenty-six kittens and four adult cats were evacuated after Hurricane Irma tore through the city last week. The shelter will provide the cats with medical care and spay/neutering services […]
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NC DEQ Delays Decision on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
In a coup for environmentalists, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality delayed a decision on whether to issue a permit for the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a multibillion dollar , six hundred-mile project that would carry fracked gas through Virginia, West Virginia, and eastern North Carolina. DEQ faced a September 18 deadline to deny […]
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N.C. Climate Activists Hold Prayer Vigil and Fast in Opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Just over a year ago, fifty-one-year-old Greg Yost decided to quit his job. It wasn’t because he didn’t like it—he loved teaching math to ninth graders in Madison County, just outside Asheville. But he had other concerns: namely, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a multibillion dollar, six hundred-mile project that would carry fracked gas through Virginia, […]
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Raleigh Businesses Team Up to Help Houston’s Hurricane Harvey Victims
Dozens of local businesses are teaming up to provide support to people affected by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, a powerful storm that battered the hurricane-vulnerable city and left an estimated thirty people dead. The effort is spearheaded by Rally + Relief NC, an organization founded by Raleigh resident Jedidiah Gant last year after Hurricane Matthew […]
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Local Businesses Band Together to Support Houstonians Reeling from Harvey
Dozens of local businesses are teaming up to provide support to people affected by the devastating Hurricane Harvey in Houston, a powerful storm that battered the hurricane-vulnerable city and left an estimated thirty people dead. The effort is spearheaded by Rally + Relief NC, an organization founded by Raleigh resident Jedidiah Gant last year after […]
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UNC Board of Governors Kills the Historic Center for Civil Rights
After months of contentious back-and-forth, the UNC Board of Governors voted this morning to ban the UNC Center for Civil Rights from doing legal work on behalf of the state’s poor and minority populations. The ban would effectively neuter the Center from providing legal representation to those who cannot afford it—groups it has been advocating […]
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“With DACA, I Feel Like I Have a Superpower”: After Trump Ends DACA, Triangle Recipients Tell Their Stories
In the waning days of Barack Obama’s presidency, sixteen-year-old Reyna Gutierrez learned that she had finally been granted something she had worked toward for months: DACA, the Obama-era program that grants temporary work permits and a deportation reprieve to undocumented immigrants who arrived as minors. Throughout the months-long application process, Gutierrez’s mom talked excitedly about […]