N.C. Democrats propose $15 minimum wage by 2024
House Bill 146 would be effective as of Jan. 1, 2020, when the wage would increase from $7.25 an hour to $8.80 an hour. The wage would then increase yearly ...
Read More »House Bill 146 would be effective as of Jan. 1, 2020, when the wage would increase from $7.25 an hour to $8.80 an hour. The wage would then increase yearly ...
Read More »At the council’s Feb. 19 meeting, members reviewed Gov. Roy Cooper's Executive Order 80, which asserts North Carolina’s commitment to address climate ...
Read More »From a report by the General Assembly’s Program Evaluation Division, North Carolina lawmakers have filed legislation to modernize the state's ABC system ...
Read More »A board of county commissioners in Florida is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for barring nontheists, atheists and humanists in participating ...
Read More »North Carolina Democrats are attempting to heavily expand Medicaid in the state, proposing the addition about 500,000 North Carolinians to the program. ...
Read More »HB 86 passed its first reading in the General Assembly session on Monday, and the Judiciary Committee will take further action to work on the bill. ...
Read More »“There was overwhelming evidence that election fraud occurred and that Mark Harris was party to the fraud... I hope that we can proceed with having ...
Read More »House Bills 53 and 54 would impose restrictions on abortions similar to those already passed in other states.
Read More »A homework exercise in Advanced Methods of Data Analysis turned into a research project that found 1,500 absentee ballots were unaccounted for in Bladen ...
Read More »The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is set to run through parts of North Carolina, but has been significantly delayed due to legal battles with the Southern Environmental ...
Read More »U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., died last Sunday afternoon in Greenville.
Read More »“We could really take this opportunity and completely change the narrative about redistricting and completely change the narrative about our state,” ...
Read More »As a second government shutdown seems impending, social service agencies in Orange County are preparing for the worst.
Read More »If passed, the law would go into effect on Dec. 1, 2019 and would apply to abortions performed on or after that date.
Read More »Former Gov. Pat McCrory and former U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre joined the UNC Institute of Politics as spring 2019 fellows, giving weekly seminars that are ...
Read More »As of 2018, the average teacher salary in the state is about $50,861, but the average salary for teachers in the United States is $60,483, according to ...
Read More »The N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles has adopted a new policy making it easier for transgender people to have their gender identity represented on their ...
Read More »N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein has proposed the Survivor Act, which would provide the funding needed to test roughly 15,160 backlogged rape kits.
Read More »Since launching in 2017, the IoP has quickly risen to a place of prominence on and beyond UNC's campus. Yet allegations against Tanner Glenn, IoP founder ...
Read More »The Federal Emergency Management Agency, North Carolina Department of Public Safety and nonprofits are still working to help survivors recover from the ...
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