Candidates Meet Voters In Greensboro
The League of Women Voters is helping Greensboro residents prepare for the city's October municipal primaries.
The nonpartisan organization invited the city's three mayoral candidates and six at-large council candidates to participate in a community forum on Tuesday.
With so many candidates on stage, each had only a short time to speak, but all had a chance to respond to a variety of questions from the moderator and the audience.
Topics ranged from lofty items like fighting food insecurity and creating affordable housing, to day-to-day challenges like solid waste management. They even had a chance to weigh in on the embattled International Civil Rights Museum, which brought some passionate responses from the more than 100 people listening.
While candidates disagreed on how to approach certain issues, they often found common ground, and even applauded previous council decisions on things like supporting Greensboro's international community.
And everyone agreed on the final question. When asked if they'd support nonpartisan redistricting in North Carolina, every candidate said “yes.”
Senate Gives Tentative Support For Final N. Carolina Budget
A final North Carolina budget deal has cleared its first formal hurdle.
The Senate voted 33-16 Tuesday for a budget compromise between the General Assembly's Republican leaders after nearly three months of negotiations. A final Senate vote is required Wednesday.
The House will take up the legislation Thursday and Friday. The bill would then go to Gov. Pat McCrory.
The plan spends nearly $22 billion and fully funds teaching assistants and driver's education in schools. There are $750 bonuses for state employees and teachers. The personal income tax rate would fall, but sales taxes also would apply to more services.
State Budget Provision Appears Focused On Planned Parenthood
Republicans at the North Carolina legislature again appear to be singling out Planned Parenthood.
A provision within the final state budget agreement this week bars state funds for new or renewed contracts for things like family planning or pregnancy prevention programs to any group that performs abortions.
Planned Parenthood isn't identified, but a regional Planned Parenthood affiliate executive says it's clear the group is being targeted for political reasons.
NAACP Delegation Marks End Of March To Restore Voting Rights
A delegation from the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is headed to Washington, D.C., to push the state's congressional members to support the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015.
The trip Wednesday is part of the event called America's Journey for Justice, and marks the end of that march with an advocacy day.
After a rally in the morning, the NAACP delegation will visit congressional offices. NAACP officials say Reps. Walter Jones and David Price are among those who have agreed to meet with the NAACP representatives.
The march began in Selma, Alabama. It's ending Wednesday with the effort to get restored portions of the federal Voting Rights Act struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Six buses are taking people from North Carolina to Washington, D.C.
5 Raleigh Officers On Administrative Duty Following Death
Five Raleigh police officers have been placed on administrative duty following the death of a man in police custody.
Fifty-two-year-old Carl Devince King was taken into custody Monday after someone called 911 to say he was causing a disturbance. King died at the scene shortly after being detained.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that the department on Tuesday issued a statement saying that the first two officers to arrive at the scene restrained King after finding him swinging a lamp inside a home's door.
Authorities say the officers called for emergency medical personnel because of King's erratic behavior. When the emergency personnel arrived, they attended to King and began CPR when his condition worsened.
Police expect to release a more detailed report on the incident by early next week.
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