Montgomery’s candidacy gives House District 51 voters an opportunity they haven’t had before; supporting an independent candidate who has more loyalty to their community than to a political party.
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Disaster recovery isn’t about politics, and it certainly isn’t about your bottom line. It’s about the victims who have lost possessions, small businesses, homes, loved ones. If you understood Western North Carolina or spent any time here at all, you might understand that.

These amendments would shift more of the cost of vital services onto families and individuals through fees, if those services survive at all. Corporations would be the only real winners.

Mr. Whatley had the opportunity to do incredible things for this region, and actually have something to campaign on worth my time. Why should we think he’ll do anything more as a Senator if he’s done little with the incredible opportunity he was given?

Montgomery’s candidacy gives House District 51 voters an opportunity they haven’t had before; supporting an independent candidate who has more loyalty to their community than to a political party.

Varios testigos dijeron a Siembra NC que conductores latinos fueron interrogados sobre su lugar de nacimiento y que algunas personas que no pudieron presentar una identificación estatal fueron arrestadas.

Trump personally appointed Whatley to the FEMA Review Council as the ‘Hurricane Recovery Czar’, tasked with leading recovery efforts in Western North Carolina. He has since proven to be a failure in every possible way.

Since the storm, 98% of damaged water systems have been restored, helping thousands of families regain access to safe drinking water.

Schietzelt uses his positions of power to control our votes and bodies, raise utility rates for already struggling North Carolina families, and allow us to remain at the bottom of the ranking for appropriately compensating our teachers.

The ruling means that the now Republican-led Board of Elections can continue to implement restrictions on voting that make it harder for people, and especially people of color, to exercise their right to vote.

In addition to Medicaid cuts, there has been a major drop in Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment. After the federal tax credits for the ACA expired at the beginning of the year, North Carolina saw a 21% drop in enrollment, coming out to an estimated 165,000 residents – the largest drop in the country.

Hours before North Carolina began sending absentee ballots to voters, the Republican majority State Board of Elections approved new rules governing how those ballots must be returned, including requirements that could result in some ballots being rejected and replaced because of envelope errors.

La administración de Donald Trump pidió el martes a la Corte Suprema intervenir en una demanda para permitir el uso de un controvertido sistema de datos destinado a revisar los registros de votantes estatales antes de las elecciones de medio término.

“This opposition to data centers is not organic,” Whatley said in an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. Whatley also said governments should offer data center developers tax breaks, though not direct subsidies.

Food insecurity is climbing in North Carolina, especially among children, due to the Trump administration’s harmful tariffs and cuts to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).