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Writing about NC tech, business, and labor for @newsobserver. Reach out with story ideas and scuttlebutt. past: @usatoday, @asheville.
Nov 2, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
Pro-Palestinian protesters are blocking traffic on Highway 147 near Durham.
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Durham police call for protestors on highway to disperse:

“This is the Durham police department. All protestors please take your protest off the roadway. You are impeding traffic.”

About 3 dozen protestors are defying the order and sitting down on the highway.
Apr 26, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
NC legislators have reached a deal to allow all families to use taxpayer funding to send their children to private schools.

Here are the schools that received the most taxpayer money through the NC voucher program this year, who they'll admit, and what they teach:
#ncpol, #nced Image Grace Christian School in Sanford enrolled 371 students with vouchers this year, receiving $2,261,497.

The school teaches a strict "Biblical worldview" curriculum and explicitly states homosexuality is a sin. ImageImage