Rev. Barber calls for another wave of direct action next week as national attention continues to gaze down upon North Carolina.

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The outgoing chairman of the state elections board fired a parting "shot across the bow" at one of Gov. Pat McCrory's new appointees.

Chairman Larry Leake, a 20-year veteran, took offense to what Paul Foley, the general counsel for the N.C. Republican Party said hours after he was named to the new board by the governor. “I think it would hard to be more partisan than the current board," Foley told The News & Observer.

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Governments say they want to run notices on their own websites, with no public oversight, to save money. We understand that saving money is in everyone’s interest. That’s why the North Carolina Press Association has teamed with some smart legislators to propose a bipartisan bill (HB 723) that cuts newspaper prices for these ads and offers to post every notice on a newspaper website with a free statewide website provided at no cost to government or taxpayers.

Everybody wins — governments save money and the public sees notices that could change lives. Newspapers remain strong and continue to defend transparency and government openness against all comers.

Public notices exist because the public has the right to know what government is doing in its name. Don’t let special interests take your rights away. Call and email your legislators and tell them YOU want to know what’s going on! Tell them to support House Bill 723!

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North Carolina's illegal Republican government continues to run roughshod over decency and honesty.