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Policy Watch exclusive: Double-bunked judges speak out on judicial redistricting plans
by Melissa Boughton
Thursday, April 26, 2018

More than 100 judges with thousands of years of combined experience could be wiped from the North Carolina bench by one bail bondsman who has served less than a decade in the General Assembly, and no one really knows why.

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Proposed loosening of coal ash rules draws overwhelming opposition at EPA hearing

4/26/2018

Clutching a toy panda bear for comfort, 8-year-old Alivia Hopkins had traveled from Illinois to stand atop this chair in the Washington Ballroom of the Doubletree Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Va.

A Daisy Scout, Hopkins wore badges on her sash, tassels on her knee socks and a bow in her hair. Before a panel of three Environmental Protection Agency officials, she peered over the podium and delivered a speech, imploring them not to weaken federal coal ash rules.

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School takeover group’s payment to ex-lawmaker raises ethics questions

By Billy Ball

4/25/2018

National pretrial expert: Reform is coming to the broken cash bail system

By Joe Killian

4/24/2018

Following lead of other states, NC teachers plan big march and rally for legislature’s May return

By Billy Ball

4/19/2018

NC State scientists: GenX will be in Cape Fear River, tap water for years to come; health effects need more study

By Lisa Sorg

4/18/2018

Snail mail responses from legislative operations chief Paul Coble appear to violate state public records law

By Melissa Boughton

4/18/2018

Original Commentary

Even GOP-dominated Congress wouldn’t go along with this Trump scheme for U.S. workers

By Allan Freyer

4/25/2018

Imagine your life if your boss could arbitrarily—and legally—take away chunks of your paycheck after you earned it and keep that money for him or herself. As strange as it sounds, that was the basic idea enshrined in a recent Trump administration scheme to let restaurant owners take control over their employees’ tips – a scheme that ultimately went too far even for Republicans in Congress.

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Time for General Assembly official to stop playing games with public records

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Bobbie Cavnar – named the nation’s top teacher for 2018 – discusses improving school safety

Lindsay Wagner on new education savings accounts, funding gaps that shortchange special needs students

NC Child’s Whitney Tucker discusses poverty and the 2018 Child Health Report Card

Editorial Cartoons

Snail mail

4/23/2018

Time to come clean

4/16/2018

Teacher Walk-On.

4/9/2018

NC bail bondage

4/2/2018

And the children shall lead us (#Enough)

3/26/2018

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

3/19/2018

Infographics

Legislature takes first step to combat sexual harassment; advocates say it’s far from sufficient

3/22/2018

Despite backing of legislature and UNC leaders, critics worry NC’s lab school experiment is doomed to failure

2/7/2018

Two days remain to comment on how DEQ should spend $92 million to clean up the state’s air

12/14/2017

Pressure mounts on NC’s largest pork producer to clean up its act

12/6/2017

Info-graphics – Judicial Redistricting Maps

11/14/2017

Lawmakers refuse to say how incumbent judges and D.A.’s fare in new maps; so we did it for you

9/27/2017

Events

Policy Watch exclusive: Double-bunked judges speak out on judicial redistricting plans

Proposed loosening of coal ash rules draws overwhelming opposition at EPA hearing

School takeover group’s payment to ex-lawmaker raises ethics questions

National pretrial expert: Reform is coming to the broken cash bail system

Following lead of other states, NC teachers plan big march and rally for legislature’s May return

NC State scientists: GenX will be in Cape Fear River, tap water for years to come; health effects need more study

Snail mail responses from legislative operations chief Paul Coble appear to violate state public records law

Even GOP-dominated Congress wouldn’t go along with this Trump scheme for U.S. workers

Time for General Assembly official to stop playing games with public records

Snail mail

Burr, Tillis vote to revoke protections against discriminatory car loans

Monday numbers – A closer look at the effort to prevent school violence

Friday Follies: NC conservatives double down on Trumpism

Grounds for hope, grounds for grave concern in the battle to defend our democracy

Bobbie Cavnar – named the nation’s top teacher for 2018 – discusses improving school safety

Lindsay Wagner on new education savings accounts, funding gaps that shortchange special needs students

NC Child’s Whitney Tucker discusses poverty and the 2018 Child Health Report Card

Snail mail

Time to come clean

Teacher Walk-On.

NC bail bondage

And the children shall lead us (#Enough)

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Legislature takes first step to combat sexual harassment; advocates say it’s far from sufficient

Despite backing of legislature and UNC leaders, critics worry NC’s lab school experiment is doomed to failure

Two days remain to comment on how DEQ should spend $92 million to clean up the state’s air

Pressure mounts on NC’s largest pork producer to clean up its act

Info-graphics – Judicial Redistricting Maps

Lawmakers refuse to say how incumbent judges and D.A.’s fare in new maps; so we did it for you

Crucial Conversation – May 4 – A new day in the fight against gun violence?

March 22 | Prof. Christopher Faricy discusses his book “Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States”

Crucial Conversation – The Hyde Amendment at age 41: The path forward in the fight for reproductive freedom for low-income North Carolinians

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