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Bill Overturning Smoking Bans Moves Ahead
Five years after repealing a law that prevented counties and municipalities from creating local ordinances to ban smoking, legislators have proposed a bill to limit the municipalities ability to create...
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Bill’s Provision Would Cut Food Stamps for Thousands
Language in the recent bill to impose more restrictions on immigrants would also cut food assistance for as many as tens of thousands of rural residents. There’s an update to this story: here By Rose...
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Senators Crackdown on Dumping Unwanted Children
North Carolina senators want to ban a specific type of child custody: The kind created when parents hand off their children to strangers. By Minali Nigam For pet owners who feel they can’t take care...
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Bill Overturning Smoking Bans Moves Ahead
Five years after repealing a law that prevented counties and municipalities from creating local ordinances to ban smoking, legislators have proposed a bill to limit the municipalities ability to create...
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By Hyun Namkoong Sen. Louise Pate (R-Mount Olive) spoke Wednesday in a legislative education committee meeting about encouraging children to move away from computer and television screens and go out...
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Bill’s Provision Would Cut Food Stamps for Thousands
Language in the recent bill to impose more restrictions on immigrants would also cut food assistance for as many as tens of thousands of rural residents. There’s an update to this story: here By Rose...
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Senators Crackdown on Dumping Unwanted Children
North Carolina senators want to ban a specific type of child custody: The kind created when parents hand off their children to strangers. By Minali Nigam For pet owners who feel they can’t take care...
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Legislators Retreat from Active CAFO Lawsuit Attack
By Catherine Clabby State legislators appear to have abandoned a drive to restrict court awards potentially available to some 500 Eastern North Carolina residents suing the world’s largest pork...
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Lawmakers Moving on Overhaul of Troubled Child Welfare System
By Rose Hoban The stories from the past decade are heartbreaking: a Wake County toddler smothered by his mentally ill mother in 2012, a year-old Cumberland County child who died of blunt force trauma...
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Reworked GenX Bill Goes Back to House
By Kirk Ross Coastal Review Online A last-minute amendment Friday to the Senate’s version of a bill to expand state efforts on GenX and emerging contaminants gave House negotiators some of what they...
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Legislators Retreat from Active CAFO Lawsuit Attack
By Catherine Clabby State legislators appear to have abandoned a drive to restrict court awards potentially available to some 500 Eastern North Carolina residents suing the world’s largest pork...
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Lawmakers Moving on Overhaul of Troubled Child Welfare System
By Rose Hoban The stories from the past decade are heartbreaking: a Wake County toddler smothered by his mentally ill mother in 2012, a year-old Cumberland County child who died of blunt force trauma...
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Reworked GenX Bill Goes Back to House
By Kirk Ross Coastal Review Online A last-minute amendment Friday to the Senate’s version of a bill to expand state efforts on GenX and emerging contaminants gave House negotiators some of what they...
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