The decision came after a shakeup in the field of Democratic candidates narrowed the race to a head-to-head contest between Beasley and Jackson and a legal challenge over partisan gerrymandering pushed the date of the primary from early March to May.
Kirk Ross
Bio: Kirk Ross is a freelance columnist for INDY Week and founded the online news and feature publication The Carolina Mercury. He lives in Chapel Hill.Link: http://www.exileonjonesstreet.comEmail: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/ExJS
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With Two Potential Spoilers Out of the U.S. Senate Race, Primary Battles Take Shape and Intensify
This year’s Senate contest has all the ingredients necessary to break the record spending levels in 2020, when an estimated $271 million poured into the Cal Cunningham-Thom Tillis race.
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COVID-19 Has Exacerbated the Legislature’s Proclivity for Backroom Dealing
Will the state’s elected officials commit to something better?
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As Bigger, Wetter, and More Frequent Hurricanes Become Our New Normal, North Carolina Is Adapting to the Reality of Climate Change
After Florence, everything was different.
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N.C. Fishers Face a Policy Battle Today That Will Affect Our Local Seafood Options
Few policy battles in the past decade have been as hotly debated as those involving changes to the state’s commercial fishing industry. The latest in the series could be the most heated yet. On Tuesday, five advisory committees to the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission meet in New Bern to hear from the public on a […]
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At sea with the new book from Crook’s Corner’s Bill Smith
From my grandmother’s house, we could walk to the river and often did,” Bill Smith says. “We always had some family who lived down there. I can walk there from my mother’s house today.” It is Labor Day, and Bill Smith is describing his hometown of New Bern while eyeing the action at the downtown […]
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The nightmare of Carrboro without a Cradle
I know people who will leave town. People have looked me in the eye and said, should Carrboro lose the Cat’s Cradle at the hands of high-money and high-rise developers, they are out of here, too. These aren’t newcomers, itinerant hipsters or people who would move away, anyway. These are the solid people of Carrboro, […]
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In memoriam: Liz Holm, 1959–2013
We lost Liz last Thursday night. A lot of us are still broken upif you knew her, if she was part of your life, there is a void now that is hard to fathom. She died at UNC Memorial Hospital after a month in and out of the ICU. It was a sudden sickness that […]
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The GOP sacrifices N.C. citizens—for what?
I wonder at times what happened to the people I met last year on the poverty tours. The ones who didn’t look like they were going to make it another month, let alone another year. The people who were so unsteady and living so close to the edge that it wouldn’t have taken much to […]
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Who will rein in the General Assembly?
“Governor McCrory will be back out tomorrow throwing the baseball perhaps with children who share his All-American passion.” A statement from McCrory’s press office If you’re waiting for “Mayor Pat” to show up to temper the aggressively partisan tone of the legislature, forget it. Gov. McCrory’s moderate alter ego, pined for in a recent Charlotte […]