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Record-high gasoline prices aren’t expected to derail plans for motorists who plan to hit the highways during Memorial Day weekend.

Being a community servant at heart is why state House Rep. Raymond E. Smith Jr. says he is running for the District 4 Senate seat covering Wayne, Wilson and Greene

The back-and-forth battle over candidate filing for North Carolina’s 2022 midterm elections took another turn Thursday.

  Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the Carolina Journal. The author of this post is David N. Bass. Photo: Maya Reagan / Carolina Journal     A bill to expand the Opportunity Scholarship Program passed the N.C. House, 69-49, on Tuesday, April 13, following a floor debate that focused on accountability.     Created in 2013, Opportunity Scholarships are designed to help families who would otherwise struggle to afford private-school tuition but who want to leave their locally zoned public school.     House Bill 32 would remove the current scholarship cap of $4,200 pe...

A bill to expand the Opportunity Scholarship Program passed the N.C. House, 69-49, on Tuesday, April 13, following a floor debate that focused on accountability. Created in 2013, Opportunity Scholarships are designed to help families who would otherwise struggle to afford private-school tuition but who want to leave their locally zoned public school. House Bill 32 would remove the current scholarship cap of $4,200 per year and substitute a formula allowing scholarship recipients to share in 70% of the funding the state sets aside per pupil. That figure eventually scales up to 80%. Students wo...