Los legisladores de Carolina del Norte tienen una agenda muy apretada y el tema más comentado es el Proyecto de Ley 318 de la Cámara de Representantes. El HB 318,...
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Now the company is looking to lawmakers to avoid having to face more consequences for their pollution of North Carolina waters. This legislative session, lawmakers are considering bills to hold polluters accountable, including House Bill 569, entitled “PFAS Pollution and Polluter Liability” and Senate Bill 666, the “2025 Water Safety Act”.
North Carolina Governor Josh Stein recently rolled out his first full budget proposal — a $67.9 billion plan that puts education, family tax relief, and student well-being at the center. State Senate Republicans have now responded with their own proposal, a $65.9 billion budget highlighting conservative tax breaks, investments in law enforcement, and a surge in infrastructure spending.
Families and advocates across North Carolina, particularly in Eastern Carolina, are sounding the alarm as looming federal budget decisions threaten to slash critical Medicaid funding — a move they say would devastate individuals with autism and their families, according to WITN.
Los legisladores de Carolina del Norte tienen una agenda muy apretada y el tema más comentado es el Proyecto de Ley 318 de la Cámara
Several hundred people attended a town hall in Charlotte directed at a cardboard cutout of Senator Thom Tillis, who was invited but was not in attendance. A coalition of local groups, including Indivisible Charlotte, Common Cause NC, Red Wine & Blue NC, Democracy North Carolina, and New Rural Project, hosted the “Empty Chair Town Hall.”
In North Carolina, communities from the western to eastern parts of the state participated in the national movement, condemning Trump’s harmful policies and billionaire Elon Musk’s federal purging.
Voicing support for the tariffs while it was politically advantageous for him in gaining Trump’s favor and then flipping his script when they went wrong, as predicted–without naming the party responsible–is weak. While Tillis bounces back and forth, desperately trying to balance the extremism of his party’s primary voters with the moderate general electorate of North Carolina, his constituents suffer.
The newly confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services has expressed support for reviewing the federal approval of mifepristone, a move that could ultimately restrict access to the drug used for abortion and miscarriage care.
Reproductive rights advocates in North Carolina are raising concerns over the possibility that the Trump administration could revoke access to this key medication. Although Trump downplayed the likelihood of national abortion restrictions during his campaign, he recently directed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “study the safety of mifepristone,” according to Kennedy’s Senate confirmation hearing in January.
The move has left hundreds of school systems and food banks reeling. They already face rising food prices and are struggling to help community members with growing food insecurity.
The 18 senators who signed the letter warned that without swift intervention, the tariffs could cause lasting harm to North Carolina’s economy.
In each category surveyed across partisan, gender, racial, and education groups, more people were against permitless carry than in support. 96% of Democrats, 77% of independents, and 60% of Republicans oppose permitless carry, according to the Everytown poll. 85% of women are against permitless carry, as are 66% of men. In addition to the bulk of North Carolinians opposing permitless carry, the Everytown polling found that 66% of gun owners did as well.
The lawsuit was filed in response to the US Department of Health and Human Services announcing it was immediately terminating $11 billion in health care funding across the country, including more than $230 million in funding for North Carolina.
The bills touch on subjects such as reproductive rights, vaping on school grounds, the practice scope of nurses, and paid sick leave.
Al menos 13 estudiantes más de universidades en Carolina del Norte han visto recientemente revocadas sus visas estudiantiles. El 25 de marzo, la Universidad Estatal de Carolina del Norte (NC State) informó que fue notificada de que dos de sus estudiantes internacionales —ambos presuntamente provenientes de Arabia Saudita— habían perdido sus visas. En cuestión de días, ambos estudiantes regresaron a su país de origen.