NC Policy Watch, the online journalism initiative of the North Carolina Justice Center, has launched the “Defending Democracy” project. This project will generate a steady drumbeat of new and original content (news stories, commentary, newsmaker interviews, expert analysis and more) related to the latest state policy developments, court decisions, research, advocacy and organizing efforts in the fight to preserve democracy in the battleground state of North Carolina.
The case of the vanishing budget: How N.C.’s secretive budget “process” is bad for the public good
If, in this precise moment, you’re wondering where North Carolina’s multi-billion dollar budget is, the same one that sets crucial policy and spending parameters for state agencies, that dictates classroom funding levels for 1.5 million schoolchildren, that sets pay levels for thousands of state employees, retirees and teachers, it’s in the same place it’s always ...
- Brennan Center gives glimpse of possible SCOTUS partisan gerrymandering outcomesAs court watchers and voting rights organizations alike eagerly await a partisan gerrymandering decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, the… Read more »
- The case of the vanishing budget: How N.C.’s secretive budget “process” is bad for the public goodImage: Adobe Stock If, in this precise moment, you’re wondering where North Carolina’s multi-billion dollar budget is, the same one… Read more »
- NC Sheriffs’ Association changes stance on anti-immigration bill to support harsher versionThe North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association has backed down from its opposition of House Bill 370, an anti-immigration measure drummed up… Read more »
- Computer files reveal more troubling secrets about GOP gerrymanderingThe post Computer files reveal more troubling secrets about GOP gerrymandering appeared first on NC Policy Watch. Read more »
- Tillis touts his efforts to help Trump ‘remake the federal judiciary’WASHINGTON – North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis declared his opposition last week to one of President Trump’s judicial nominees –… Read more »
- The week’s Top Stories on Policy Watch1. Hofeller files: Lawmakers lied to federal court in 2017, preventing NC from getting special election The 2011 North Carolina… Read more »
- Hofeller files: Lawmakers lied to federal court in 2017, preventing NC from getting special electionThomas Hofeller (Image: C-SPAN) The 2011 North Carolina legislative maps are among the largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered by a… Read more »
- “Gerrymander” is much too polite a word for what Trump and the GOP are trying to doFor some time now, it has seemed that the widespread and growing use of the words “gerrymander” and “gerrymandering” was… Read more »
- Democracy NC’s Tomas Lopez discusses NC’s Early Voting Changes Meant Greater Costs, Fewer OptionsDemocracy NC’s Tomas Lopez discusses a new state law that has had a negative impact on voter turnout in many… Read more »
- The Hofeller files: R.I.P.The post The Hofeller files: R.I.P. appeared first on NC Policy Watch. Read more »
- The week’s Top Stories on NC Policy Watch1. Proposed legislation would dramatically weaken state hog farm oversight A sentence here, a paragraph there. A strike-through, a repeal,… Read more »
- ACLU notifies US Supreme Court of new evidence in citizenship question caseThe ACLU informed the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that new evidence about deceased mapmaker Tom Hofeller’s involvement in creating… Read more »
- Not so open: Critics say UNC Board of Governors excludes the public from its “public” meetingsHoping to hear some discussion of the future of the “Silent Sam” Confederate monument, Lindsay Ayling and a few other… Read more »
- Hofeller files: GOP mapmaker helped develop Trump’s citizenship Census questionThe master mapmaker behind North Carolina’s most contentious and allegedly gerrymandered voting districts apparently also played a role in developing… Read more »
- NC Board of Elections recommends salary increase for executive directorThe State Board of Elections wants its new executive director to start her tenure with a raise. Members voted unanimously… Read more »
