Gerrymandering

POLITICAL WRAP: North Carolina Congressional Redistricting; Louisiana Governor’s Race

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  CHARLOTTE, N.C. – This week, the fight over North Carolina’s congressional redistricting continues. There’s a lawsuit challenging the replacement map approved by the Republican-controlled General Assembly. The new map would threaten the re-election hopes of two current Republican house members. But Democrats say the re-draw still isn’t fair. A three-judge panel blocked the current […]

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Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup: SCOTUS Gerrymandering Decision; New Noise Ordinance; NC Budget

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After days of “wait and see”, finally a decision from the Supreme Court about North Carolina’s Gerrymandering case. We’ll go through the details. It got noisy at City Council as they passed a new noise ordinance which some say violates freedom of speech. The North Carolina Senate votes ‘yes’ on House Bill 370 requiring sheriffs

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Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup: NC Gerrymandering At SCOTUS; Deadly CMPD Shooting; CMS Budget

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Charlotte grapples with another deadly police shooting. A CMPD officer shot and killed a man outside a Beatties Ford Road restaurant Monday morning. Police say the man had a gun and posed a threat, but protestors paint a different story. The long-awaited Mueller report has been handed over. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says it removes a cloud over

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Opinion: Putin’s Job Is Easy When Americans Do It for Him

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Russian president Vladimir Putin easily cruised to a fourth term this past weekend, surprising absolutely no one. The only nail-biters were how many people would head to the polls — always unpredictable when the victor is certain — and how completely Putin would trounce the token opposition. Now, presumably, the newly re-elected leader can turn his attention to meddling

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Court panel says N.C. voting maps use unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. What’s next?

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CHARLOTTE, NC — North Carolina lawmakers are redrawing the state’s Congressional district maps, after judges called the old ones unconstitutional. They have two weeks to get it done. A panel of Federal Judges ruled Republicans’ created an unfair advantage when they used race and other partisan factors to create the current maps. Our political contributor Mary C. Curtis stopped

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