For more than a decade, Republicans blocked a federally-funded expansion of healthcare to a half-million North Carolinians. On Thursday, they finally budged.
An education bill could allow just five parents to get a superintendent fired, regardless of the merits of the complaint.
With the state facing shortfalls in health care, education, and housing, the GOP proposal would cost the state more than $1 billion.
The GOP’s new super-majority in the state House has emboldened Republicans to run gleefully toward some of the most contentious policies passed in other conservative states.
Republican legislatures across the U.S. enacted abortion bans soon after the Supreme Court’s struck down Roe v. Wade, but North Carolina’s attack on abortion rights came in the last few months.
As lawmakers return for a new session this month, House Democratic Leader Robert Reives says that Republican leadership should be honest with voters about their plan to further restrict abortion rights and should pay more attention to North Carolinians trying to make ends meet.
While the suit condemns the entirety of the abortion ban, it focuses on vague provisions that make it unclear when exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother would actually be applied.
Jackson says that if elected as attorney general, Bishop could work with the Republican-dominated legislature and state Supreme Court to further erode reproductive rights in the state.
For nearly three decades, families in underserved communities in eastern NC have been asking the state to fix their chronically underfunded schools. They talked to us about keeping the faith.
At a discussion in Raleigh last week, local business owners warned the ban threatened the state’s economic success.
