NC lawmakers fire back in absentee ballot battle with new election bill
Danielle Battaglia, News & Observer – North Carolina lawmakers want to stop the state’s elections boards from collecting absentee ballots after Election Day. On Thursday, Republican Sens. Warren Daniel, Ralph …
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Senators ready to elect next batch of UNC Board members
AP – The North Carolina Senate is ready to elect several people to the governing panel for the 17-campus University of North Carolina system. Senators prepared for their biennial election …
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Bill would name new agricultural sciences building after long-time NC ag commissioner
Travis Fain, WRAL – A new $100 million Agricultural Sciences Center on Reedy Creek Road in Raleigh would bear long-time Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler’s name under legislation that easily …
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NC House gives unanimous OK to $1.7B COVID relief measure
Gary D. Robertson, AP – The North Carolina House voted unanimously Wednesday to distribute another $1.7 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds, with most going toward virus testing …
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NC lawmakers vote for more spectators at high school and college games, graduations
T. Keung Hui, News & Observer – High schools and colleges would be allowed to fill up their stands to half capacity during the coronavirus pandemic under a bill approved …
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Power struggle over North Carolina schools reopening continues
Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan and T. Keung Hui, News & Observer– As the North Carolina state legislature plans another veto override vote to mandate the state’s K-12 public school districts to …
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‘Abortion is urgent healthcare’: NC lawmakers propose a bill to lift abortion restrictions
Kristen Johnson, The Fayetteville Observer – Democratic leaders in the N.C. House introduced the Remove Barriers and Gain Access to Abortion Act, or the RBG Act, on Monday that would …
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NC Senate to reconsider effort to override Gov. Cooper’s veto of school reopening bill
WNCN — After falling just one vote short in their efforts Monday night to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a North Carolina back-to-classroom bill, Republicans in the Senate say …
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NC House advances bill that distributes more COVID funds
AP – North Carolina House Republicans advanced legislation on Tuesday that would distribute more money from the federal government’s most recent coronavirus relief package to state agencies and programs. The measure, which …
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Key NC senator explains absence for close override vote
Gary Robertson, AP – A North Carolina state senator said on Tuesday he wasn’t on the Senate floor for a close veto override vote on legislation mandating the reopening of …
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