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NC NAACP On The Ahmaud Arbery Shooting: ‘Lives of African Americans Don’t Seem To Amount To Much’
The 25-year-old Black man’s killing by two white men, one of them a former police officer, has prompted outrage in Georgia and beyond.
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From The Editor: COVID-19 Is Ravaging NC Meat Plants. It’s Past Time For Cooper To Tell Us Where.
With close to 1,000 confirmed coronavirus cases among meat processing workers, NC officials in Gov. Cooper’s administration must put public health first.
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NC’s Top Health Official On Naming COVID-19 Meat Plant Outbreaks: ‘Stay Tuned’
North Carolina, home to the world’s largest pork slaughterhouse, has seen coronavirus infections in meat processing facilities rising quickly.
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Allison Riggs Says North Carolinians Need to Know This About Voting During Coronavirus
The voting rights attorney, who argued NC’s partisan gerrymandering case at the U.S. Supreme Court, talks pandemic-era elections.
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Gov. Cooper And GOP Leaders Agreed On A Billion-Dollar Coronavirus Relief Bill. Here’s What’s In It.
North Carolina bills — backed by GOP and Democrats — allocate federal dollars for schools, small businesses, hospitals, medical research and more.
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NC Legislature Dropped That Education Plan Mandate That Had Teachers Furious
Members in the NC Senate postponed one controversial deadline and loosened another for public schools in a massive coronavirus relief bill.
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Gov. Cooper’s Support Is Surging During The Pandemic — Even With Trump Voters
New pandemic times poll shows 67% of North Carolinians, and even 46% of Trump voters, supporting the Democratic governor.
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North Carolina Researchers Launch ‘Promising’ Coronavirus Clinical Trial
Doctors in the NC trial say they don’t believe drug to be a ‘cure,’ but they hope it eases the symptoms of the novel coronavirus.
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‘This Is Not Our First Virus’: Rural NC Health Provider Says Listen To Experts on Coronavirus
Dr. Dan Mulcrone, the head of an intensive care unit in Elizabeth City says North Carolinians must take the spread of COVID-19 seriously.
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Sen. Richard Burr Was Buying And Selling Stocks In An Industry He Regulates
ProPublica published another examination of Burr’s finances, reporting that the NC senator has been buying and selling stocks in an industry he regulates.