Politics

North Carolina experienced a dramatic rise in mass shootings in 2023, with 33 incidents shattering past records.

Next month, the North Carolina Supreme Court is scheduled to hear whether the state must pay nearly $700 million to fund long-awaited public school investments, as ordered by a trial court.

It’s been nearly three years since government accountability advocate Bob Hall filed a complaint with the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) over several possible irregularities in Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign finance reports and the public has still yet to receive any answers.

North Carolina’s disenfranchisement laws, which bar individuals convicted of felonies from voting until certain conditions are met and make it a serious crime for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction, continue to cast a long shadow over the state’s political landscape.

Terrence Meyers has been helping run elections in one way or another since 1987, first in his native Maryland and, since 2018, in Chowan County, according to The Daily Advance.

For years, North Carolina voting rights groups, advocates, and voters have fought back against state Republican’s voter suppression efforts. In their latest attempt, Republicans passed a controversial elections law that could prevent many North Carolinians from exercising their right to vote. 

In the lead-up to North Carolina’s 2024 gubernatorial primary election, a stark divide between the Democratic and Republican candidates on their views of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol remains evident.

More eligible North Carolinians will have access to the ballot box this year, as the State Board of Elections added to the list of approved student and employee IDs that can be used to vote in the upcoming election.

For perhaps the first time, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson aimed his hate and vitriol at his fellow Republicans. It happened while speaking in a church at a Davie County GOP Christmas event earlier this month, WRAL reported.