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As NC Newsline investigative reporter Lisa Sorg has been detailing in a new series of special reports, the county of 100,000-plus residents – most of whom are poor and/or people of color – is literally inundated with mind-boggling quantities of toxic chemicals and animal waste. What’s more, as we learned in a conversation with Sorg, […]

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Among the many vexing challenges facing state government agencies in North Carolina these days is this: finding and keeping qualified workers. Across the state, job vacancies and turnover are extremely high. Even when agencies find good people, keeping them from departing for better paying jobs in the private sector is often impossible. Fortunately, the causes […]

The post SEANC director Ardis Watkins on NC’s chronic public employee shortage and pending state budget appeared first on NC Newsline.

The Fines and Fees Justice Center recently worked with the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University Law School to produce a new and damning report entitled “Debt Sentence: How Fines and Fees Hurt Working Families.” As the title implies, the report explains how the runaway costs of court fines and fees often […]

The post Tim Curry of the Fines & Fees Justice Center: How court fines and fees hurt working families appeared first on NC Newsline.

The post New voter suppression bill is yet another assault on democracy appeared first on NC Newsline.

The post Proposal to increase prison medical releases is long overdue appeared first on NC Newsline.

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The post Of legal technicalities and well-heeled lawbreakers appeared first on NC Newsline.