I first heard about the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case in September 2021 and went to a rally hosted by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. It was so empowering to hear from other people about their own abortion experience and ways we can get involved—I dove in head first. When the Dobbs decision was leaked […]
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1971 Revisited: Rectifying Racial Remembrance
We initially saw Michael Parker West’s Twitter thread on private school enrollment in North Carolina, and asked him to turn it into a blog post. West is an educator, institutional and community organizer, and assistant principal based in Wake County. It’s been reported that North Carolina private school enrollments are growing to levels not seen […]
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Why is Renee Price voting with Republicans in the NC General Assembly?
Last month, IndyWeek reported that six local Democrats in the state House supported a new bill, HB 551, that would ban municipalities from adopting rules preventing tenant discrimination, making it more difficult for low-income residents of North Carolina to find places to live. Tenants groups across the state have opposed the bill. Among the Dems […]
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Hope for the North Carolina Venus Flytrap license plate?
Four years ago, I applied for the best license plate to ever possibly exist: the Venus Flytrap license plate. A joint project of the NC Botanical Garden Foundation and the Friends of Plant Conservation, the license plate was designed to highlight the Venus flytrap, which is native to a 90-mile inland area around Wilmington. It […]
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On abortion and North Carolina: A conversation with Dr. Rebecca Kreitzer
On Tuesday night, around 8:40pm, shouts of “Shame! Shame! Shame!” broke out at the North Carolina General Assembly. The House, in a 72-48 vote, had overrode Governor Cooper’s veto. Now, a 12-week abortion ban (see below) will go into effect on July 1. Make no mistake: people will die because of this decision. We spoke […]
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Republicans want to radically reshape how North Carolina apportions our state senators
A wackadoodle bill calls for a constitutional amendment that there be 100 counties in NC, and that each state senator represent exactly two counties (not, as is required now, an approximately equal number of residents). First, some legal history One of the bedrock principles in American democracy is the idea of “one person one vote.” […]