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Umstead Park advocates ask court to declare airport lease invalid; exploratory drilling could begin this week

By Lisa Sorg
March 12, 2019
In Environment

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Back to the future? Advocates worry NC’s new drug distribution law is a return to failed policies of the past

Gov. Roy Cooper signed the controversial “Death by Distribution” bill into law last week. Under the [...]

Controversial ex-DEQ chief Donald van der Vaart nominated to Environmental Management Commission

Van der Vaart: supporter of Trump, critic of regulation, was in charge during some of the state [...]

North Carolina court begins high-stakes partisan gerrymandering trial

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The big scam: Why North Carolina should dump virtual charter schools

Linger long enough in Raleigh’s legislative lagoon and you’ll find there are three kinds of lawmaker [...]

Republican legislative leaders could end the Common Cause gerrymandering lawsuit tomorrow

There’s an old adage in the law that’s often used to describe situations in which a judge jails some [...]

Monday Numbers: Don’t be fooled by the raw numbers. ICE is seizing more undocumented immigrants without criminal records.

The right-wing wallflowers of The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, with an almost palpable sense [...]

Hofeller: The GOP’s “Michelangelo of the gerrymander”

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