The number of attorneys in the newly seated North Carolina General Assembly is basically flat compared to the number from the previous session — partly due to a lack of turnover in the legislature generally, and partly because of the ...

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Some people hear the word “drone” and imagine militarized aircraft on combat operations too risky for human involvement. Others see dollar signs. In hopes of encouraging the latter, the North Carolina General Assembly recently approved new regulations regarding drone use. ...

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All charges have been dropped against a newspaper reporter arrested while covering a Moral Monday protest at the North Carolina legislature.

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A key leader in the North Carolina General Assembly says voter identification legislation will pick up steam again because the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

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Little attention was widely paid last summer when the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law that changed many of the state’s gun rules. George Zimmerman’s night of self-appointed security duty took care of that. It turns out that the law passed in June 2011 contains a section virtually identical to the “Stand Your Ground” statute passed in Florida in 2005 and made infamous after the February night that Zimmerman shot and killed a teenager named Trayvon Martin.

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