Tricia Cotham’s party switch gave Republicans a supermajority in the North Carolina General Assembly and allowed them to override a series of Governor Cooper’s vetoes.
El Proyecto 2025, una iniciativa que se perfila como un cambio drástico en la política migratoria, está empezando a tener un impacto significativo en cómo se abordan las deportaciones en el presente.
State officials recently announced that during the 2023-24 school year, only 58% of third graders met reading benchmarks. The trend worsens as students get to high school, as only 33% of 9th graders in North Carolina can read proficiently.
With less than three months until Election Day, organizations across North Carolina are thinking outside the box to get folks fired up to vote.
State Sen. Michael Lee has voted to restrict abortion rights seven times in the last several years. That’s despite campaigning on a promise to “oppose an extreme ban on abortion.”
“The very soul of public education is on the ballot and it’s going to take champions of public education to meet this moment,” Democratic candidate Mo Green said.
Republicans, from Trump to Mark Robinson, have been running away from their anti-choice records, hoping voters will overlook their controversial stance against reproductive rights.
Originally elected to the state House in 2020, Erin Paré is the lone Republican representing Wake County in the NCGA. Her political career has been marked by her support for legislation that focuses on right-wing culture war issues.
The Biden-Harris administration approved a plan under which NC will give hospitals additional Medicaid funds if they forgive the medical debt of approximately 2 million residents. The plan has the potential to relieve as much as $4B in medical debt from the last decade.
“These chemicals cause cancer, these chemicals cause a multitude of other diseases. These chemicals damage our environment,” resident Jill Hoffman declared at a heated public hearing.