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19795
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The article is a round-up of the week's political and legislative actions concerning taxes, schools, and executions. Three tax bills are being debated which are titled the Fair Tax Act, The Lower Tax Rates for Stronger N.C. Economy, and HB998 or the Lewis, all proposing to lower taxes. Opportunity Scholarship Act passed the House and now the bill which proposes to use public funds for private schools will go to the Senate. Lastly the Racial Justice Act, which protects inmates on death row if they can prove the decision was made based on race, continues to be gutted by conservative Republicans with more changes scheduled for approval soon.
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Sunday, June 9th the House announced its $20.57 billion budget, monetarily close to the Senate budget of $20.58 billion proposal but with important differences. The House budget eliminates fewer jobs, gives more money to K-12, spends less on tax reform, and allocates funds to eugenics victims in the amount of $10 million. The two chambers must now come together and agree upon a finalized budget by the end of June.
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Representatives continue to debate the state budget in both the Senate and House. A contentious topic is the allocation of state funds to mental health, an umbrella term encompassing mental health concerns, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse problems. The Senate budget proposes $675.7 million to these areas while the House budget offers slightly more at $704.7 million and the article discusses the specific services and facilities facing budgetary cuts.
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Governor Pat McCrory will announce this week the second group of energy commission appointments. Critics like Jim Warren believe the Governor should not make such decisions based on his 28-year career at Duke Energy. Warren and other clean energy activists believe McCrory's ties with Duke Energy is a conflict of interest in choosing commission members responsible for regulating such big energy corporations.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike-down the Voting Rights Act of 1965 gives the state more freedom in dictating its voting legislation. The court's decision now no longer requires Federal approval if North Carolina, or fifteen other southern states, want to change legislation governing voter identification requirements or redistricting measures. Opponents to the court's ruling believe without protections from the Voting Rights Act, discrimination against minority voting rights will go unchecked.
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With above average rainfall for the summer, flooding of a residential neighborhood in Chapel Hill forced inspectors to condemn 68 of 116 units in Camelot Village. The development was built in 1967 in a floodplain before regulations existed to prevent such risky construction. Chapel Hill town officials are now trying to determine how to aid current owners and to prevent further problems in the future.
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Chatham Park is a development project for eastern Chatham County intended to a mix-use project. Currently, plans include 22,000 homes and 13 million square feet for research facilities in a 7,120 acre area east of Pittsboro, the largest project of its kind for the area. The author attended the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners meeting on August 12th and reports on feedback from citizens and board members.
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A study group sponsored by the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission completed a set of recommendations on a controversial subject called \"forced pooling.\" Forced pooling may make fracking obligatory even for non-consenting landowners. Ray Covington of Lee County and head of the study group believes the measure will protect both property owners and drilling companies. The full set of recommendations will be sent to the N.C. department of Environment and Natural Resources which will inform the department's own report expected out next month.
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20731
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Nine-term senator Ellie Kinnaird left her state Senate position in September. A Democratic Committee selected House Democrat Valerie Foushee to fill Kinnaird's Senate seat for District 23 which includes all of Orange and Chatham counties. Foushee's objectives in the Senate include supporting Medicaid expansion and repealing Republican-backed election laws.
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Monica Byrne is a Durham native and aspiring novelist and playwright. Her first novel The Girl in the Road was signed by Crown Publishing. Following this success, her play What Every Girl Should Know will premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival.
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Fracking cannot officially begin in the state for 18 months, but that has not stopped a Texas company from preliminary testing. Tar Heel Triassic Resources Inc. plans to run tests in Lee County to determine \"orientation, structure and depth\" of the state's Triassic basin. The company hopes to perform three-dimensional testing, a procedure which does not require permits through the state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
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Parents of children attending Carrboro elementary schools are concerned about a proposed redistricting strategy for Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools. Michelle Brownstein, the chairwoman for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education, says that board members will be discussing several options including opening a new magnet school in Chapel Hill or redistricting and moving hundreds of students in either the fall of 2014 or 2015.
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The Republican majority in the NC General Assembly passed a new gun law, effective October 1, 2013, which limits \"a municipality's ability to prohibit people with valid conceal-carry permits from bringing handguns to public places, including parks and greenways.\" In Chapel Hill a draft ordinance, which would open up seventeen public spaces, including playgrounds, to permit holders, was introduced. The NC Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense has asked the Chapel Hill Town Council to opt out of changes that would align the town code with the new state law. The Raleigh-based activist group, Grass Roots NC, has threatened to sue the town of it opts out.
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Liberty Warehouse is Durham's last standing tobacco auction warehouse where tobacco vendors sold their wares between 1940 and 1984. Beginning in the spring of 2014 the building will be demolished and replaced by condos and retail shops.
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The FFA Modernization and Reform Act accelerates integration of drones into the national airspace by 2015. The NC Budget has a section which bans the purchase and operation of drones by state and local governments until July 2015. However, tucked away in the state budget is a provision which will allow the state's chief information officer to allow drones now if he deems it necessary.
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