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Posts By Brittany Keller

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Court: Let felons on probation, parole vote

3 years ago  •  Crime, Elections

Travis Fain, WRAL – People who have finished felony prison sentences, but are still on probation or parole, should be able to vote in North Carolina, a panel of state …
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Audit: NC officials didn’t check on how billions in pandemic relief aid was spent

4 years ago  •  Governor, COVID-19, Politics and Government

Matthew Burns, WRAL – Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration didn’t have the processes in place to monitor how state and local agencies spent more than $3 billion in federal coronavirus pandemic …
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Senate OKs raising legal age to marry in NC from 14 to 16

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government

Matthew Burns, WRAL – Fourteen- and 15-year-olds would no longer be allowed to marry in North Carolina under a bill the state Senate unanimously adopted on Wednesday. North Carolina has …
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Click for liquor: ABC stores could sell online under House bill

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government

Laura Leslie, WRAL – North Carolina House lawmakers voted this week to allow the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control stores to sell liquor online. House Bill 890, which passed by a …
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NC House divided over how, whether to teach America’s racist past

Travis Fain, WRAL – North Carolina Republicans pushed a measure through the state House on Wednesday that would limit “critical race theory” and other discussions of America’s racist past in …
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Guns for elected officials, policing reforms, rape kit bills beat legislative deadline

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government

WRAL – The North Carolina General Assembly had a busy day of lawmaking Wednesday ahead of a do-or-probably-die legislative deadline for many bills. The Senate passed a slate of criminal …
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This bill once made it easier to get domestic violence protective orders. Now it makes it harder.

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

 Travis Fain, WRAL – Support for a once-simple bill to close a loophole in North Carolina’s domestic violence laws has crumbled at the statehouse after lawmakers added extra language in …
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An NC Republican reported his party’s plans to gerrymander. Then he walked it back.

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government

Lucille Sherman and Will Doran, News & Observer – The former North Carolina GOP executive director reported this week that his party would gerrymander the state’s new congressional districts to …
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Still want cocktails to-go in North Carolina? There’s an order for that.

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government

Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, News & Observer – Want cocktails to-go? Restaurants and bars will be still be allowed to sell mixed drinks for takeout or delivery for the next month. In …
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Audit says checks to parents should’ve been automatic, but it’s not too late to get one

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government

Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, News & Observer – The state’s Extra Credit grant program doled out $335 checks to more than a million North Carolina parents in 2020, using federal coronavirus relief …
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