On Friday afternoon, Bernie Sanders blasted out an email to his millions-strong campaign list with a simple headline: “It looks like you like Keith.” In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s defeat Tuesday night, Representative Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat who was the first Muslim-American elected to Congress and who cochairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, threw […]
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The Morning Roundup: Trump Names White Supremacist as Chief Adviser
Good morning. Here’s what you missed over the weekend. 1. Donald Trump immediately made a virulent racist his #2 advisor in the White House. President-elect Donald Trump — take that in, ruminate, get angry about it and do something — has made his first two picks for his administration public; RNC chairman Reince Priebus for […]
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Republicans Rumored to Be Considering Packing the N.C. Supreme Court In December Special Session
One of the few bright spots of these unbelievably awful past few days is that, in the race for the N.C. Supreme Court, Mike Morgan soundly defeated conservative Bob Edmunds. This gives Democrats four out of seven seats on the state Supreme Court; if Roy Cooper’s lead in the governor’s race holds, these two positions […]
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The U.S. Department of Labor Hits a State Senator’s Farm with a Conspicuously Small Fine
After a lengthy investigation of labor practices at the family farm of state senator Brent Jackson, R-Sampson, an official with the U.S. Department of Labor told the INDY last week that the farm “was found in violation of recordkeeping, disclosure, and wage statement provisions, as well as violations resulting from failure to pay the minimum […]
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Trump and Clinton Make Their Final Cases in Raleigh
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are holding last-day rallies in Raleigh today, with Trump at Dorton Arena at 3 p.m. and Hillary Clinton holding her last event of the campaign at midnight at Reynolds Coliseum. The INDY will be at both. Raleigh bureau chief Ken Fine is covering the Trump event and will be […]
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The Morning Roundup: One. More. Day.
Good morning. Here’s what you missed over the weekend.1. Early voting ends, election day tomorrow. It’s hard to believe the campaign began just seventy million years ago at the tail end of the Cretaceous Period, but alas, here we are: early voting ended on Saturday with over 3.1 million votes cast, but not without controversy, […]
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Three-Hour Wait to Vote at N.C. State Location Eddie Woodhouse Said Was Unnecessary
Voters at North Carolina State’s polling location, the Creative Services Building, on Varsity Drive, waited three hours or more on Friday night to cast their ballots one day before the end of early voting. Alexandra Henry, who had just voted, said she waited three hours to vote in line. “When I got here at 2:30, […]
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HRC President Chad Griffin on HB 2: Election Will “Send a Message That You Cannot Get Away With Doing This”
Even in this batshit insane election year, Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin sees North Carolina as ground zero for LGBTQ rights. “When the governor signed HB 2, we made a commitment as an organization and in partnership with Equality North Carolina, that we weren’t going to stop until this governor and the legislature worked […]
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The Morning Roundup: All Election, All the Time
Good morning. Four more days of this.1. Orange County already surpasses its early vote total from 2012 . You can still skip the line on Tuesday and cast your ballot early today and tomorrow. And well over two million people have already done that in North Carolina. Here’s how it’s breaking down, courtesy of University […]
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Department of Labor Finds Senator Brent Jackson’s Farm Broke Minimum Wage, Disclosure, Recordkeeping Regulations
An eight-month U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that the farm owned by State Senator Brent Jackson, the powerful co-chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a member of Donald Trump’s agricultural advisory committee, broke federal minimum wage standards and was ordered to pay more than $2,000 in backpay to twenty-one workers. The farm […]