100 NC lawmakers signed onto a health care bill. Then donors started calling.
Lucille Sherman, News & Observer – In North Carolina’s sharply divided legislature, where few pieces of high-profile legislation receive bipartisan support, lawmakers from both parties are backing a bill that, …
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Big effort aims to elect candidates with science backgrounds
Brian Anderson, AP – An advocacy group plans to spend millions next year to elect more doctors, scientists and other professionals to office, arguing the pandemic and Donald Trump’s handling …
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Raleigh-to-Richmond is just one of the new Amtrak routes NC could add under Biden plan
Brian Murphy, News & Observer – More direct train service between Raleigh and Richmond — and cities beyond. New passenger lines running to the North Carolina coast and to the …
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Bill to boost school vouchers moving in NC House
Travis Fain, WRAL – Legislation moving through the General Assembly would increase private school vouchers available to some families, tying the annual amount to what the state spends on the …
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Medical marijuana backers renew push in NC as more states legalize weed
Adam Owens, WRAL – With more states legalizing marijuana, advocates are renewing the push to allow medical marijuana in North Carolina. Sixteen states have approved recreational use of marijuana – New …
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Summer school, reading improvement bills pass NC legislature
Gary Robertson, AP – The North Carolina General Assembly finalized on Thursday a pair of public education measures designed to get more intensive help to children learning to read and …
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Company fined $200K over water treatment problems
AP — North Carolina regulators have fined a company nearly $200,000 over problems with water treatment systems designed to stop contaminated wastewater from reaching the Cape Fear River, the primary …
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Conservatives have formed an alternative to NCAE. Will NC teachers be interested?
T. Keung Hui, News & Observer – Conservative activists have formed a new statewide teachers association that they want to become an alternative to the North Carolina Association of Educators. …
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Retooling of NC student literacy efforts on fast track
AP — An overhaul of North Carolina’s efforts to improve reading proficiency for early-grade students in the public schools is advancing quickly through the legislature, clearing the Senate on Wednesday …
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NC bill would halt abortions on basis of race, Down syndrome
AP – North Carolina Republicans are looking to restrict abortions further in the state, filing a bill this week to prohibit the procedure if the pregnant woman is seeking it …
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