N.C. budget watch: What’s at stake for OUR communities
The proposed N.C. House and Senate budgets threaten to cut the HUB Office, a key driver of equity and access for small, minority-, and women-owned businesses.
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State Budget Bad Actors
This week, several Democratic members of our North Carolina General Assembly joined alongside Republican members and supported one of the most egregious state budgets we’ve seen in this decade.
Black Farmers have been locked out of NC’s medical marijuana bill
North Carolina is on the verge of legalizing the sale and production of medical marijuana. But as Senate Bill 3 is written, Black farmers are locked out. Advance Carolina executive director Marcus Bass explores this in a Charlotte Observer op-ed.