The Brunswick County Board of Elections announced Thursday that it will begin testing voting machines on Monday, Oct. 9 in preperation for the municipal election.
Faircloth, who served one Senate term before losing to then-unknown Democrat John Edwards in 1998, died at his home in Clinton, said Brad Crone, a former campaign aide and close friend.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a sweeping Republican elections bill Thursday that would end a grace period for voting by mail and make new allowances for partisan poll observers.
The North Carolina House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override Governor Roy Cooper’s vetoes on several pieces of legislation, including two bills that opponents say targets transgender children.
“The decision-making was about whether this particular opportunity to serve as Attorney General was the right thing for me, or should I seek to retain the seat in congress? And the answer is the former."
One bill would restrict certain gender affirming care for minors, one would restrict discussions of LGBTQ topics in some classrooms and the third would prevent trans girls from competing in girls sports.
“Parents should still have the right to consent to life-saving medical care for their children whether or not my next-door neighbor thinks that,” said Margaret Bilodeau, whose 15-year-old son is transgender.
A bill environmental lawyers describe as a “polluters’ wish list” is set to move forward at the General Assembly, potentially making it harder for the state to regulate so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water supplies.
Supporters call the bill ‘unapologetically aspirational," as legislators mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs ruling which ended protection for abortion under Roe versus Wade.
Cooper signed a bill increasing penalties for damaging infrastructure and vetoed one which could penalize local governments that fail to submit audits on time.
It reversed the map-drawing decision made years ago when the court was majority Democrat and found the electoral districts drawn by GOP members were illegal.
Email records show that one of the ‘smoking guns’ used against Funderburk is less conclusive than the definitive way it was presented during the removal hearing last month.
The Executive Committee of the Brunswick County Republican Party will meet Monday night, April 24, to decide on a candidate to succeed the retiring John Ingram as the county’s sheriff.
Multiple Republican and Democratic sources have said they expect her to make that announcement during a news conference at the state Republican Party Headquarters.