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Ratepayers plead with NC Utilities Commission to reject Duke Energy’s carbon plan By Lisa Sorg Bobby Jones, a founder of the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition in Goldsboro, had been seated for less than five minutes when he bolted from his bench. “This hearing is a farce!” Jones said, as a […] The post Weekend reads: On protests, pipes and and power appeared first on NC Newsline.

NC General Assembly’s “short session” convenes By Staff The North Carolina General Assembly returns to Raleigh today for the 2024 “short session” — a session that figures to feature debates over familiar topics like public and higher education and funding for state agencies, as well as new proposals to expand legalized gambling and to further […] The post Weekend reads: New session, new poll, recordkeeping discrepancies, and Duke’s new carb...

“I have no idea what we’re going to do”: Housing shortage leaves NC low-income renters stymied By Greg Childress New report identifies a yawning housing gap for hundreds of thousands of NC households Julia Stokes and her daughter moved into the Helen Wright Center, a Raleigh shelter for women experiencing homelessness, late last year after […] The post Weekend reads: NC’s housing shortage, polluters must pay, and previewing the legislative session appeared firs...

City Weekly Rewind

Even the most ardent “pro” and “con” advocates must concede that, by any fair assessment, the politics surrounding the death penalty in North Carolina are…

Even the most ardent “pro” and “con” advocates must concede that, by any fair assessment, the politics surrounding the death penalty in North Carolina are…

Advocates push for extraordinary action on the death penalty

A new report from the group People’s Parity Project Action warns that rulings like Cunningham v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. are in jeopardy, because of the North Carolina’s Supreme Court’s rightward shift.

Judge Tommy Davis wrote that Bliss and Coit could have done their job without breaking the law and staying in the park.

Two Asheville, North Carolina, reporters were convicted of trespassing in a jury trial in Buncombe County last week, a conviction scorned by press freedom advocates across the U.S.