Dr. Michael Bitzer, Catawba College professor, said we traditionally have had fights over racial gerrymandering, the drawing of districts to benefit a minority party.
Legislators will be at Pitt Community College at 3 p.m. Thursday to hear from people in the area on how they think congressional and state legislative districts should be re-drawn.
The bill would allow 10 to 12 licensed sports wagering businesses in the state offering on-site betting at or near sporting facilities, as well as online gambling.
The state Senate plans no recorded floor votes until next week, while House leaders say they’ll take up legislation in floor sessions only on Monday evening and Tuesday.
The former state Supreme Court chief justice is gearing up to for an expensive bid to fill the seat that Republican Sen. Richard Burr is vacating in 2022.
Fort Brag stretches across six counties: Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Scotland and Richmond. This would make this area the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the courthouse is in Fayetteville.
A bipartisan effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in North Carolina has received a legislative committee hearing. But it’s unclear yet whether enough legislators are ready now to alter their views on pot.
The bill would spend $25.7 billion in state funds next fiscal year. The measure also would reduce the individual income tax rate incrementally to just under 4% by 2026 and phase out the current 2.5% corporate tax starting in 2014.
Legislation to raise the minimum age for marriage in North Carolina from 14 to 16 has now cleared a House committee after getting Senate approval last month.
Four press conferences were held across North Carolina, including in Greenville where people called for a budget proposal that "fully funds our public schools."
The city of Washington held a dedication event Friday where they renamed their waterfront park, Mac “Bear” Hodges Festival Park after the former mayor who died of COVID-19.
The investigation is yet another liability for the embattled attorney general, who is facing a years-old criminal case, a separate, newer FBI investigation, and a Republican primary opponent who is seeking to make electoral hay of the various controversies.
Charlotte, Raleigh and roughly three dozen other cities and towns in North Carolina would shift their municipal elections this fall to early 2022 in legislation advancing in the state Senate.
Senate Bill 300 was proposed by members of the North Carolina State Senate and House of Representatives that would provide mental health assistance resources to members of law enforcement around the state while targeting insubordinate and overly aggressive officers.
President Joe Biden has nominated the sheriff of one of the nation’s most populous counties to lead the agency that deports people in the country illegally.
The State Department has ordered a significant number of its remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to leave Afghanistan as the military steps up the pullout of American troops from the country.
Senate Bill 510 was proposed on April 5, 2021 to require all law enforcement agencies in the state of North Carolina to release any body cam footage as public record after a 48 hour period.
“Currently there’s a six to three conservative majority on the Supreme Court, so appointing four new justices would tilt the ideological balance of the Court,” ECU’s Dr. Peter Francia said.
The North Carolina House Education Committee passed 17 bills that would grant school districts the liberty to shorten the break periods during the school year to help improve this learning loss.
“This bill is controversial,” co-sponsor Rep. Mark Brody (R-Anson, Union) said. “And I expect that those who disagree with this bill will come forward and offer options or potential solutions."
The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office has already received almost as many gun permit applications as all of last year, when the applications were already double what they typically see.
“I would guess that he is issuing these executive orders in large part because he thinks he won’t be able to get legislation through the Senate, and he wants to have an immediate effect," ECU's Dr. Brad Lockerbie said.
“We live in this hyper-polarized time, but we’re not necessarily seeing that many pieces of legislation that are hyper-partisan come out. And one of the reasons for that is filibuster,” Elon University's Jason Husser said.
The senate and house bills would allow churches with private schools to permit concealed carry. Current law allows churches to permit guns, but not if there is a school inside the building.
“You’ve got 14 days to request and it needs to be in by close of business on Election Day,” Sen. Paul Newton (R-Cabarrus, Union) said. “If it’s not, it won’t be counted.”
U.S. officials found no evidence that foreign actors changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process in last November’s presidential election, according to government reports Tuesday affirming the integrity of the contest won by President Joe Biden.
