Posts By Brittany Keller

Kate Murphy , News & Observer – For the fifth straight year, tuition is frozen for North Carolina students looking to attend UNC System universities. The Board of Governors voted …
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Sophie Kasakove, News & Observer – Republican legislators have drafted a bill that would reinstate the requirement that jobless people actively seek work in order to receive unemployment benefits.

https://greensboro.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/n-c-lawmakers-draft-bill-that-would-require-people-to-seek-work-to-receive-unemployment/article_c53fdd56-732f-11eb-a146-a3ac6faba61a.html

Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal – Seven municipal and county governments in the Triad and Northwest North Carolina have been awarded federal economic grants related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor’s …
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Sharon Johnson, WITN – Congressman Greg Murphy (NC-03) first introduced legislation cracking down on foreign spying at colleges and universities last July. Then on Thursday, Murphy reintroduced the Intelligence on …
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Will Doran, Charlotte Observer – Unless Republican lawmakers surprise him by embracing legal reforms, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says, he will likely be back in North Carolina courts …
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Mary Clare Jalonick, AP – When Sen. Richard Burr stood and said “guilty,” there were hushed gasps in the Senate chamber. But the North Carolina Republican’s vote to convict former …
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Brittany Whitehead, WLOS – This week, North Carolina Representatives from both sides of the aisle introduced a bill in an effort to combat opioid drug overdoses in the state.

https://wlos.com/news/local/nc-reps-introduce-bipartisan-bill-on-prescriptions-to-combat-rising-nc-opioid-overdoses-death-house-bill-93

Laura Leslie, WRAL – Days after legislation was filed to require school districts across North Carolina to provide an extended summer school to help students who struggled with online classes during the …
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