And will the General Assembly do anything about it?
Leigh Tauss
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Some Wake Commissioners Want to Make the School Board Responsible for School Funding. It’s Not as Simple as It Sounds.
And after a new Board of Commissioners is seated in December, the idea may be DOA
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Vegan Feminism Theorist Carol J. Adams Wants to Weaponize What You Eat in the War Against Trump
The author of a “bible of the vegan community” is coming to N.C. State Friday
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What’s Worse Than Floodwater? Contaminated Floodwater With Dead Pigs Floating in It.
“If the storm slows and dumps two feet of rain like some of the predictions are, I think we could be in a lot of trouble.”
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If Wake County Allows Fuquay-Varina to Expand Its Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, Jeff Bundine May Have to Give Up His Goats
He and eight thousand of his neighbors will also be subject to a slate of new zoning restrictions put in place by people they can’t vote for.
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“What Will It Take for the City of Raleigh to Value Black Lives?” Residents Ask for an Oversight Board to Hold Police Accountable
Residents calling for a community oversight board to hold police accountable for what they believe are racist practices got into a heated exchange with Mayor Nancy McFarlane at last night’s Raleigh City Council meeting. Ten residents signed up to speak on the topic of policing, addressing police brutality, mental health, and immigration, among other things, […]
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Survey: Raleigh Residents Want Bird Scooters to Stay (With Regulations)
As the city continues to ponder how to regulate Bird scooters, a recent survey showed most residents want the scooters to stick around. Nearly 70 percent of the seventeen hundred people who responded to a Downtown Living Advocates’ survey were in favor of the scooters, and 62 percent hoped regulations could be put in place […]
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ICE, U.S. DOJ Subpoena Voting Records From State, Forty-Four N.C. Counties
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sift through millions of voter records in an apparent “fishing exhibition” after subpoenaing poll books, voting records, and executed ballots last week. Assistant U.S. attorney Sebastian Kielmanovich issued the subpoenas Thursday to forty-four counties in North Carolina’s federal Eastern District, including Wake County. The probe spans five years, including […]
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Cooper Files New Lawsuit Challenging the NCGA’s Constitutional Amendment Do-Overs. The NAACP Will Follow Suit.
The NAACP plans to file a second lawsuit after the state Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the NAACP and Governor Cooper’s efforts to remove the rewritten proposed constitutional amendments from the November ballot as part of lawsuits filed against the original amendments. Ballot printing is currently being delayed by the courts as several legal issues are […]
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At a Press Conference, Muslims for Social Justice Denounce What They Say Is All-Too-Common Islamophobia
A blind man who claims his bag was removed from a plane while he was using the bathroom and a mother who said she was denied visitation to her incarcerated son after refusing to remove her hijab say they have one thing in common: They are victims of systemic Islamophobia. Muslims for Social Justice held […]