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With one week to go before the Alberta provincial election, the UCP and NDP are courting critical undecided voters as advance polls open.

With one week to go before the Alberta provincial election, the UCP and NDP are courting critical undecided voters as advance polls open.

With one week to go before the Alberta provincial election, the UCP and NDP are courting critical undecided voters as advance polls open.

A special data request from the NC Department of Revenue showed that 157,000 families who received Extra Credit Payments in the last round had incomes so low that they were not required to file income taxes. Since the Extra Credit Grant Program has been extended through May 31 and a proposal is on the table to further extend the deadline in the Senate, the Department of Revenue is working with United Way’s network of direct service providers on outreach to increase awareness among low income ...

© Getty Images A North Carolina state audit showed that poor families received less COVID-19 relief due to hurdles faced in applying for aid. Last year, the state passed the Extra Credit Grant Program to give families an over $300 stimulus check, but the poor families who needed the aid the most had the most trouble obtaining it, according to the audit.  “These families did not receive the payments because of the additional steps the Department needed to take in order to award payments to l...

Submitted by BlueNC on Sun, 12/20/2020 - 08:56 NC CHIEF JUSTICE BEASLEY LEAVES LEGACY TO EMULATE: Beasley became the first African American woman to be chief justice in March 2019. She’d served on the state’s highest court since 2012. On March 13th of this year, 13 months after Gov. Roy Cooper named her chief justice, Beasley issued her first directives to deal with the pandemic. Clerks of court were to make sure notices were posted that people who might have been exposed to COVID-19 not e...