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House bill seeks to extend parent rights over K-12 curriculum, books

April 11, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A bill filed in the North Carolina House seeks to extend parental rights over K-12 public school curriculum and challenges to books or materials. House Bill 595 was filed last week by Reps. […]

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Budd powers to front of Republican US Senate primary

April 12, 2022 Matt Mercer

SELMA — Ted Budd has drawn on racing analogies in his campaign for the U.S. Senate. His announcement video featured a Monster Truck titled the “Liberal Agenda Crusher” and his grassroots volunteers are called his […]

FITZGERALD: The power of mama bears

November 21, 2021 Tami Fitzgerald

Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this right. Yet, education elites have been on a collision course with parental […]

Bill banning certain transgender treatments for minors filed in NC Senate

April 14, 2021 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — Three top Republicans in the N.C. Senate filed a bill on April 5 to restrict medical treatments given to minors seeking gender transition. The bill, Senate Bill 514, called “Youth Health Protection Act,” […]

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With sunset of ‘bathroom bill’ compromise, progressives begin push to pass local LGBTQ ordinances

December 9, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — After the Dec. 1 expiration of a key part of 2017’s House Bill 142, billed as a compromise to end the controversy around H.B. 2, often called the “bathroom bill,” progressive groups are […]