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Building supply shortage and high demand create lack of inventory in North Carolina housing market, while influx of cash drives up prices in a seller’s market. by Jennifer Bringle June 4, 2021 CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS A sold sign in front of a…Read More »
By Lynn Bonner June 11, 2021 NC Policy Watch North Carolina is the latest state to bank on a lottery to reverse flagging COVID-19 vaccinations. North Carolina joins Ohio, New York, Maryland, Oregon, Colorado, California, New Mexico, West Virginia, and the state…Read More »
By Dana Wormald June 11, 2021 In Commentary, COVID-19 NC Policy Watch Mask rules differ from store to store. (Dana Wormald | New Hampshire Bulletin) Last week, Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel tweeted: “My local supermarket has (a) sign saying they ‘strongly…Read More »
Yesterday the N.C. Supreme Court censured former District Court Judge Randy Pool for violations of the North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct and “for conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute.” A censure is a…Read More »
By Laura Olson – 6/7/2021 NC POLICY WATCH The NCAA currently prohibits student-athletes to profit off their name or image — a practice that’s commonplace in professional sports. But a flurry of states has forged ahead with laws granting college athletes the…Read More »
Rates at which local departments of social services remove children from families point to inequity and inconsistency, with extremes of very high and low levels. by Kate Martin, Frank Taylor and Imari Scarbrough June 7, 2021 CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS Some 5,000 children…Read More »
Space Exploration Bundles Awarded to Four Schools in Hickory, Burke, Pitt, and Union Counties Raleigh Jun 7, 2021 Four North Carolina teachers will get new tools and technology to help teach about outer space and inspire and empower students in the field…Read More »
Legislators in the House unanimously vote to distribute $750 million in federal funding to all 100 counties. by Mark Darrough May 27, 2021 A home in the northern mountainous region of Haywood County, where, like other rural areas that dominate the county,…Read More »
By Lynn Bonner – 6/4/2021 NC POLICY WATCH The class-action lawsuit brought against the Citadel Salisbury nursing home claims chronic understaffing endangered the health and safety of its residents. Plaintiffs claim they were not given their medicines, staff ignored calls for assistance…Read More »
By Greg Childress June 3, 2021 In Education NC POLICY WATCH Former state superintendent Mark Johnson ignited a firestorm of controversy a couple of years ago when he selected Istation to replace Amplify Education, Inc., as the provider of the state’s K-3…Read More »
A demonstrator from Amnesty International holds a placard outside the Bang Kwang Central Prison to protest against the death penalty in Bangkok, Thailand, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha1
