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'North Carolina'

Where are the ovations for income tax cuts for the rich, Republicans want to know

The number of rich who reap the state income tax cut is apparently too small to generate a loud round of applause.
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Arkansas life imitates The Onion on treatment of transgender children

The Onion's take on Arkansas's persecution of transgender children is too close to the truth to be funny.
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By hook or by crook: The Republicans of North Carolina

Republicans barely held onto a U.S. House district in North Carolina in a special election Tuesday (50.8 percent for the winner in a heavily Republican district where Republican fraud required the calling of a new election), but you wonder if a few votes might have been moved by Republican antics in the North Carolina House today.

If a 20-week abortion ban is unconstitutional ....

A federal judge has struck down North Carolina's 20-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. Arkansas has both a 20-week ban, not yet challenged, and a new 18-week abortion ban.
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Webb Hubbell: A North Carolina 'influencer'

Webb Hubbell, the former Little Rock politico, has been picked for a North Carolina panel talking about important policy issues in 2018 elections.

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina redistricting plan

The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed, 5-3, with a lower federal court that North Carolina used impermissible racial considerations to redraw two congressional district lines after the 2010 Census to aid Republicans.
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NCAA 'reluctantly' relents on North Carolina after HB2 repeal

The NCAA board of governors has decided to no longer boycott North Carolina for championship events because of the legislature's recent repeal of HB 2. It said a majority of its board o "reluctantly voted to allow consideration" of cities in the state.

Bathroom bills and the NCAA. Arkansas might fail the championship event test.

North Carolina may or may not have a "bathroom bill" compromise. Either way, it might not satisfy new rules from the NCAA on ensuring non-discriminatory conditions in places it holds championship events. Arkansas would have a hard time complying.
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The price of discrimination: In North Carolina, it's in the billions

An Associated Press report puts the economic damage to North Carolina from its laws discriminating against LGBT people at more than $3.76 billion over a dozen years. Arkansas, with several anti-discrimination laws and more in the way, is at risk of similar fallout.

Bathroom bill fight is far from over

Don't be misled by headlines that say Sen. Greg Standridge (R-Russellville) will withdraw a broad bill to prohibit use of any public restroom by someone with a birth certificate that doesn't match the posted gender. The bathroom fight isn't over.
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North Carolina: No longer a democracy

Resolved: Let's have Arkansas stay ahead of anti-democratic North Carolina in 2017.

Democrat Roy Cooper will be NC governor; Pat McCrory concedes at last

North Carolina voted for Donald Trump but rejected a Republican incumbent governor. Why? It's yet another question to add to the ongoing debate on the left about where to place the blame for the debacle that was the 2016 election.
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