Eleanore Wood
Last week, Republican senators Ralph Hise and Warren Daniel filed a bill that would boost the salaries of teachers who underwent specialized police training to carry firearms on campus. The same bill was filed last year and died in committee. However, Republicans are saying that the climate around arming teachers has changed, and support has grown for this type…
Read MoreNorth Carolina State House Representative Cody Henson has been court ordered to stop harassing his estranged wife. Mr. Henson has been sending large amounts of texts to his wife who is seeking a divorce. According to experts on domestic violence, texting is a relatively new method of intimate control. The abuser seeks to manipulate and control their partner…
Read MoreLeslie McCrae Dowless has been paid for years to tamper with absentee ballots on behalf of Republican candidates. He and some of his employees have finally been arrested after years of committing election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. When will those who paid for his services be brought to justice? North Carolina deserves…
Read MoreAfter weeks of Republican obstruction and finger-pointing, North Carolina finally has a new Board of Elections. That means it’s time for the investigation into the vote theft scheme funded by the Mark Harris campaign to get back to business. But it may be weeks before North Carolina voters find out what Harris knew and when…
Read MoreMore than half a million North Carolinians lack health care coverage because our state has refused to expand Medicaid to cover low-income workers. Although the federal government will cover 90% of the cost of providing health insurance to those who need it, North Carolina has refused. A new session of the General Assembly begins this…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Republicans may have lost their supermajorities in the House and Senate, but that won’t stop them from doing everything they can to rig the system for political gain. Now they’re bringing back something called “floaters” — no, not the kind you flush — in order to give the GOP a false advantage in…
Read MoreIn the Netherlands, the chemical GenX is considered a hazardous substance. Here in the U.S., it isn’t. It turns out that Eastern North Carolina has been importing shipments of the toxic stuff from the Netherlands, and the contents and concentration of the sludge isn’t fully known. It is past time for our lawmakers to put…
Read MoreAnother week, another example of House Speaker Tim Moore’s blatant corruption. Moore no longer has a veto-proof supermajority in the House, but he has repeatedly used his influence to obtain personal benefits for him and his cronies. Last week, the state ethics board dismissed a claim that Moore bought an abandoned chicken processing plant for $85,000 in…
Read MoreAs evidence of Republican vote theft and election fraud in southeastern North Carolina continues to mount, the state Republican Party has begun stonewalling and sabotaging the investigation at every step in order to help Mark Harris cross the finish line. Meanwhile, we now know the Trump administration has ignored evidence of GOP vote theft in Bladen County…
Read MoreVoters in North Carolina deserve to know what Mark Harris knew about the illegal ballot collecting that was happening in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. McCrae Dowless is a convicted felon who spent six months in prison for insurance fraud. Dowless was already under investigation for potential election fraud in 2016. It seems that Mark…
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