Last year, the INDY, along with a coalition of media and nonprofit partners, sued the McCrory administration over its consistent failure to produce public records in a timely manner, as required by law. On October 18, the INDY filed a new lawsuit, separate from the original coalition, against McCrory, seeking access to public records that […]
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Long Shots: Why Gary Johnson Isn’t Worthy of Millennials’ Protest Votes
In a survey released last month by the Black Youth Project and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 51 percent of white millennials who supported Bernie Sandersnot surprisinglybacked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. What was surprising was who came in second. Not Donald Trump, with his paltry 2 percent. Not Green Party candidate Jill Stein, […]
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Early Voting Data Looks (Mostly) Good for Clinton
Early voting ends on Saturday. So, if you haven’t already, put this paper down and go freaking vote like the fate of the Western liberal order depends on it (see our voting guide on page 21). If you’ve already done your civic duty, gather round the fireplace and join us for some early-voting tea leaf […]
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Richard Burr Thinks Shooting Hillary Clinton Is Hilarious, Judicial Obstruction Is Awesome
Richard Burr had a bad day yesterday. There’s really no other way to characterize it. So, for your reading pleasure, here’s a blow by blow of everything that went wrong for a career politician who has a real shot of losing his bid for reelection. First, his campaign banned The News & Observer from receiving […]
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The Morning Roundup: Durham Loses a Champion In the General Assembly
Morning. Here’s what you missed over the weekend.1. Rep. Paul Luebke passes away. After a fight with lymphoma, Rep. Paul Luebke died on Saturday at the age of seventy. Luebke, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, quite literally wrote the book on North Carolina politics: Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities […]
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NC Values Coalition Rips Off Houston Anti-Trans Ad, Implies Trans People Will Murder Your Children
Things are looking mighty bleak for the North Carolina Values Coalition. Not only are they losing Republican legislators on HB 2, not only has Hillary Clinton jumped out to a 21-point lead in early voting and is on pace to cruise to a win here (likely sealing the deal on the election), but Governor Pat […]
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Wake Republican Who Voted for HB 2 Now Wants You to Know He’s a Champion for LGBT Rights
Take one look at the mailers Rep. Chris Malone (R-Wake Forest) is sending out to his constituents, and you’d find a candidate who is steadfastly against HB 2—and not only that, but someone who calls for adding full LGBTQ non-discrimination protections to existing state law. The only problem is that Malone voted for it, and […]
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66 Reasons Not to Vote for Pat McCrory
To be clear, this isn’t a fair and balanced story. It’s not objective. But it is the damn truth.
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Will Donald Trump’s Collapse Drag Down These Five N.C. Republicans?
At the beginning of this year, who could have guessed that Hillary Clinton would be up by about three points in North Carolinaor that her opponent would be Donald Trump? Or that a Washington Post poll taken in October would have Roy Cooper leading an HB 2-damaged Pat McCrory by thirteen? Sure, a Public Policy […]
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Richard Burr’s Not So Keen on the Right to a Fair Trial
It’s not often when neoconservatives forget to mask their hatred of everything in the Constitution that comes after the Second Amendment, but yesterday, that’s exactly what Senator Richard Burr did. Burr, a prominent supporter of the PATRIOT Act and the surveillance state, posted an article from the conservative Washington Free Beacon on Facebook yesterday that […]