WASHINGTON, DC (August 24, 2020) -- Representatives David Price (NC-04), Barbara Lee (CA-13) Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), John Yarmuth (KY-03), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Peter Welch (VT-At Large), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Lloyd Doggett (TX-35), and Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) &
RALEIGH, N.C. — From Nina Simone and Julius Chambers to Ella Baker and the Greensboro Four, North Carolina voices have swelled in the national struggle for equality. With the launch of the N.C. Civil Rights Trail, the epic journey will be preserved and amplified from places where leaders and followe
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) awarded four contracts to regional organizations to administer its new COVID-19 Support Services program. The program will support North Carolinians in 20 targeted counties who are asked to isolate or quarantine d
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today released a Partner COVID-19 Testing Toolkit designed for organizations seeking to host community testing events. The comprehensive toolkit comes in response to widespread interest among North Carolina organi
As of 12:10 p.m. yesterday: NC Cases - 157,741 NC Deaths - 2,570 NC Tests Completed - 2,102,359 NC Currently Hospitalized - 1,000 More data are available online at covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard . Daily Updates: The North Carolin
Washington, D.C. – On August 25, 2020, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) and Congressman Jim Banks (IN-3) introduced the Campus Free Speech Restoration Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate on August 6, 2020 by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR).
by John Hood Whether Democrat Yvonne Holley or Republican Mark Robinson wins the 2020 race for lieutenant governor, North Carolinians will be electing the first African-American candidate to that post. But the victor won’t be the first black North Carolinian elected to a Counci
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Judicial Branch celebrates Women’s Equality Day on August 26 which was the date selected to commemorate the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This year’s celebration is of particular importance because it is the centennia
RALEIGH – The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) has reappointed NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall as the NASS representative to the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of its Securities Committee. “It’s an honor to be reappointed to these leadersh
by Jordan Roberts The COVID-19 response in America has focused on several fronts. The main goals are stopping the spread of the virus, mitigating economic damages, and creating a vaccine or discovering therapeutics. A new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hig
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues sent a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark Calabria urging the agency to withdraw a market refinance fee of 0.5 percent recently announced by Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Fr
by Joe Coletti On August 12 the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced it had made “corrections to the state’s daily and cumulated completed COVID-19 test counts after discovering a discrepancy in testing data that had been submitted by LabCorp.” The discrepa
