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CBC Editorial: Friday, Sept. 22, 2017; Editorial # 8214
The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company
It makes you wonder why the leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly
work so hard at making it more difficult for people to vote.
While many of their legislative efforts have been thwarted by the courts, North
Carolina's voters seem to be helping legislators along even without the bad
laws.
We're staying away from the polls in droves!
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primary for Charlotte mayor, couldn't even get 8 percent of the voters to the
polls, only 43,434 of 544,908 eligible voters participated.
This was an election with some burning issues- Turmoil over the conduct of the
local police had erupted into nights of street protests; an effort to extend LGBT
rights became one of the biggest issues in the country as the city and the state
legislature tangled over notorious H132.
Still, a miniscule minority of voters showed up.
Prospects don't look much better for communities in Wake, Durham,
Cumberland and other counties around the state where early voting for many
Oct. 10 municipal primaries and elections started Thursday.
Two years ago, just 11 percent of Wake County's 374,082 voters showed up at
the polls for municipal elections. In Durham and Cumberland counties, it was
just above 7 percent of those registered.
Mail boxes are filling up with pitches from candidates, yard signs are sprouting
on lawns and roadsides like mushrooms after the rain. Phone banks are busy
connecting and encouraging people to vote.
Let's be clear. Voting matters. It makes a difference. It is no cliche, nor mere
homily to say that people have fought, given their lives, to keep or gain the right
to vote. That sacrifice should not be casually ignored.
Voting is the great equalizer. No one's vote counts more, or less, than anyone
else's. The only meaningless votes are those that are never cast.
While it may seem incongruous that state and local elected officials embrace
and impose laws in sharp contrast to what many polls say citizens want, it's no
accident. And gerrymandering isn't the only culprit.
Too often, voter complacency and flat-out disinterest results in governments
more reflective of narrow, special interests than the true will of the governed.
Voting is easy. There are lots of resources to help and few excuses not to do it.
Go online, the State Board of Elections offers a variety of tools to connect
residents with the information they need to make sure they're registered and
know where to vote.
Information and access to local voting information has been compiled by WRAL
News and is available here.
Early voting for the current round of local elections in many communities
continues through Saturday Oct. 7 with municipal Election Day on Oct. 10.
Vote, it's the best way — the only way — to get the kind of government you want.
Don't vote? Don't complain.
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the latest positions in the Confederate statue debate, the N.C. numbers within
the Cassidy -Graham health' reform plan, the context behind Gov. Roy
Cooper's veto of a sweeping environmental bill and more.
POLITICS & POLICY
MATTHEW BURNS: Legislative leaders warn Cooper, commission on
Confederate statue removal (WRAL-TV analysis) -- Legislative leaders fired
shots across the bow of Gov. Roy Cooper and the state Historical Commissim
in the ongoing battle over Confederate monuments on public grounds in North
Carolina.
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during Confederate monuments boom (Norfolk Virginian -Pilot analysis) --
Here are five things Virginia public schools taught about slavery and the Civil
War during the first part of the 20th century, a time when many of the public
symbols went up. Historians widely attribute the statues to the Lost Cause
movement, which emerged in the out during that period and romanticized the
Confederacy while minimizing the role of slavery in the © War.
ROBIN ADAMS CHEEILEY: No thanks, commissioner, I will nolog » the
other waV(Greensboro News & Record) -- William "Bill" Lashley is the latest
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PHILIP GERARD: As America debates monuments, an N.C. Civil War
museum prepares to break ground (Charlotte Observer column) A new
Civil War History museum opening soon in Fayetteville will help today's North
Carolinians better understand their history.
SUSAN LADD: Some people Vou know could be deported if DACA
ends (Greensboro News & Record column) -- In less than six months, friends,
neighbors, coworkers and people you depend on every day could begin to
disappear before your eyes.
ANDREW DUNN: What comes next for Charlotte's former
mayors? (Charlotte Agenda column) -- The Charlotte mayorship isn't generall
a final political destination. It can be a stepping stone, or it can be a dead end.
Of late, the mayor's office has been a revolving door.
GARY ROBERTSON: Ex -Gov. McCrorV on the air, isn't closing door to
2020 run (AP analysis) — Ex -Gov. Pat McCrory says he's keeping himself bus
with work, buying a new home and recently weighing in on the news of the da
as a pundit on a Charlotte radio station. The Republican ex -governor hasn't
closed the door to considering another bid for the state's chief executive in
2020.
Whistleblowers deserve full dama.2a award "Winston-Salem Journa
year, a federal court jury believed that three Mocksville police officers were fir
for blowing the whistle on wrongdoing in their department and awarded the
officers $4.1 million in damages. But Judge Thomas Schroeder reduced the
amount of compensatory and punitive damages.
HEALTH
State-bV-State Estimates of Changes in Federal Spending on Health Car
Under the Graham -Cassidy Bill (Kaiser Family Foundation analysis) -- The
bill would result in North Carolina receiving $8.1 billion less from 2020 to 2026
than under the current law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 31
Uninsured, Destabilize Individual Market (Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities analysis) -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, found the bill
would reduce federal spending by $243 billion, including $80 billion in 2026
alone. The budget center pegged North Carolina's share of that one-year loss
at $1.1 billion.
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Energy has announced plans to install what it claims will be North Carolina's
two largest battery energy storage systems — representing a $30 million total
investment as part of the company's Western Carolinas Modernization Plan.
EDUCATION
KRIS NORDSTROM: Legislature's school funding task force appears
unwilling, unable to seriously examine funding needs ' (NC Policy Watch
column) -- Last week, the General Assembly announced which legislators will
serve on the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform. The
Task Force, created via the 2017 budget bill, is charged with developing
recommendations to radically overhaul North Carolina's school finance system.
A serious review of North Carolina's school finance system could substantially
benefit the state. Schoolfunding matters, particularly for students in low-incomt
lamilies. Unfortunately, early indications suggest that the Task Force is
uninterested in reforms that would actually improve educational delivery in the
state.
FERREL QUILLORY: Debate over means, not ends, in principal paV
plan (EdNC column) -- A testy, yet illuminating, debate has broken out over the
new pay plan for North Carolina's public school principals enacted earlier this
year by the General Assembly. It is a debate over means, not the end; over
details, not the goal of higher pay for high -quality educational leaders.
STEPHANIE CARSON: NC Children Count on Census Count, Advocates
Say (Public News Service analysis) Future funding for North Carolina's
children largely depends on the 2020 census, so this week 39 organizations
sent a letter to the state's congressional delegation urging lawmakers to take
steps now for a complete and accurate count.
ALEX GRANADOS: Legislators weigh in on teacher pipeline (EdNC) -- The
North Carolina Association for Colleges and Teacher Educators had its fall
forum today and held a legislative roundtable with Sen. Erica Smith -Ingram, D-
Northampton, Sen. Chad Barefoot, R-Wake, Rep. Graig Meyer, D-Orange, and
Rep. Hugh Blackwell, R-Burke, to discuss the teacher pipeline.
JACK MOLLOY: Homework or startup? Chapel Hill student balances both
with venture Joballo (N.C. Biz Wire/WRAL-TV TechWire analysis) — Max
Always -Town send, a senior at East Chapel Hill High School pitched his startup
Jobalo, an online platform to connect high school and college students with
part-time work and volunteer opportunes, to a room full of venture capitalists
and entrepreneurs at this year's CED Tech Venture Conference. The annual
conference brings together top entrepreneurs and investors from across N.C.
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