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NC budget includes $5M digital credential project that appears to favor politically connected vendor
The North Carolina Legislative Building (Photo by Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Ahmed Jallow
In the recently passed budget, North Carolina lawmakers included $5 million for a statewide digital credential system for the state’s 58-school community college system.
The budget provision includes technical requirements that appear to favor a politically-connected vendor that participated in a state pilot program last year.
N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson, with Ann Edmondson of Feeding the Carolinas (left) and Amy Beros of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina (right), points to 270,000 eggs that will be distributed to N.C. food banks. The eggs are the first shipment in a three million egg settlement in a recent antitrust case. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Clayton Henkel
One of the most requested items at North Carolina’s food banks is food that’s high in protein. Starting this week, hungry families will see their wish fulfilled dozens and dozens of times over.
State Attorney General Jeff Jackson, joined by state food bank leaders, received 270,000 eggs on Tuesday, the first in a series of deliveries of three million eggs from an antitrust lawsuit.
By Christine Zhu
More extreme ideological groups like MAGA and Democratic Socialists have dominated the national headlines in recent months. But a new poll by Elon University shows most North Carolinians prefer to describe themselves in less political terms.
The poll, released Tuesday, asked 800 North Carolina adults how they described themselves across 30 different political, economic, cultural, and lifestyle identities.
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Historic preservationists asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to deny President Donald Trump’s appeal to continue construction on his $400 million White House ballroom on the grounds of the demolished East Wing.
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