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The state Senate voted 38-11 Wednesday to legalize online sports betting and betting on horse races in North Carolina and took a final vote Thursday.
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper launched a war of words with his “state of emergency” tour last week, where he accused Republican lawmakers of choking the life out of public education, dropping an atomic bomb on it, choosing corporations over classrooms, turning their backs on children, bringing political culture wars into classrooms and using political hacks to dictate what happens in schools.
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After approving funding for joining the multi-state collective known by acronym ERIC, Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly want to prohibit the state from joining the organization.
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HB 551 is an omnibus bill for landlord interests. It includes several sections that housing advocates object to — including a new requirement that could increase business for the pet-vetting company owned by the bill's sponsor.
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Some say the Cotham name — for both Tricia and her mother Pat — is now forever tainted among Democrats. “In the political world, a few months is a lifetime,” Pat Cotham said last week. “I take one day at a time.”
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A group of business leaders founded the organization NCInnovation to address a problem: North Carolina’s research universities — particularly those outside the Triangle — are struggling to turn their big ideas into business opportunities.
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The state Senate’s budget includes a plan to give the legislature more power to pick judges.
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While most state employees would get a 2.5% raise next year, the Senate offers a much bigger raise to the governor.
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An exchange between Rep. Jeff McNeely, R-Iredell, and Rep. Abe Jones, D-Wake, during a debate on the school voucher bill ended with McNeely suspended from continuing to speak and Jones defending his educational background on Wednesday.
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Cooper usually vetoes bills privately in his office, announcing his decision in a press release. This time he'll take his veto stamp to a much more public setting.