In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, smiles after taking the oath of office during the start of the 2017 Legislative session at the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh, N.C. Several protestors took to the…Read More »
The day faith in the N.C. General Assembly’s Republican leadership bottomed out By Billy Ball, Colin Campbell, Joe Killian NC POLICY WATCH N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore We will remember a lot of things about this day. We’ll remember how North Carolina’s Democratic…Read More »
Lt. Governor to share the stage with speakers who have vilified LGBTQ and Muslim communities, called for plan to “free Christian children from public education” By Joe Killian, in Policy Watch Investigates _________________________________________________________________ Next month, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest will be the…Read More »
By Melissa Boughton, NC Policy Watch The law firm representing Republican legislative leaders in an ongoing partisan gerrymandering case may have just polluted the remedial mapmaking process by sending them partisan data prohibited from use. A court last week ordered lawmakers to draw new…Read More »
By Joe Killian, NC Policy Watch A new Pew Research Center survey shows nearly 40 percent of American adults say colleges and universities are having a negative impact on the United States. That number is up significantly from 2012, when it was measured…Read More »
The court has just issued a landmark victory in Common Cause v. Lewis, our state partisan gerrymandering lawsuit! In a unanimous ruling, the court has struck down North Carolina’s state house and senate districts as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. That means the state will…Read More »
Tony Helton, one of the state’s most influential charter school leaders, has resigned his post as southeastern regional director of TeamCFA, the school management firm that oversees Southside-Ashpole Elementary school, the first and only school in the state’s Innovative School District (ISD).…Read More »
By Melissa Boughton, N.C. Policy Watch There are some things one needs not be reminded of — corruption, gerrymandering and voter suppression in North Carolina are not those things, according to a Mother Jones article released yesterday. The magazine examines how the state’s…Read More »
