Nation/World

Biden says $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan has hit ‘stalemate’

By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that talks ...

Elections

Early voting for 2021 municipal elections begin Oct. 14

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Early voting for the 2021 municipal elections in Rowan County will begin ...

News

Judges strike down state’s voter ID law

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo ...

Elections

Political Notebook: East Spencer resident running as write-in candidate for mayor

East Spencer resident Timothy Trogdon said last week he’s going to run for mayor as a write-in candidate ...

News

GOP candidate, Lexington attorney Jim Snyder dead at 76

Associated Press LEXINGTON — A memorial service will be held today for Jim Snyder Jr., an attorney, author ...

News

Political Notebook: Gov. Cooper vetoes bills supported by Rowan County lawmakers

RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper last week vetoed a handful of bills supported and sponsored by Rowan ...

News

Cooper vetoes bills limiting K-12 racial teaching, holding rioters accountable for losses

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed two ...

Elections

State Board of Elections approves Sunday voting for 2021 municipal elections in Rowan County

SALISBURY — The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Friday sided with Democrats on the Rowan County ...

News

Cooper vetoes bill that would have prohibited release of donors’ identities

RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday vetoed legislation that would prohibit the public disclosure of donors ...

News

State budget to take longer as GOP, Cooper seek consensus

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly is two months late ...

Rowan County

Political Notebook: Cooper signs nine bills into law, including three sponsored by Rowan County’s representatives

RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper last week signed nine bills, including three backed by Rowan County’s lawmakers. Among ...

Elections

Salisbury council incumbent Tamara Sheffield drawing on ‘level-headed business approach’ in re-election bid

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — City Council incumbent Tamara Sheffield hopes her “level-headed business approach” and “people ...

News

Rowan Museum hosts women’s suffrage celebration at Utzman-Chambers House

SALISBURY — In an act of celebration and remembrance, about two dozen women dressed in their best suffrage ...

News

Tens of millions in local funding for Rowan in state budget praised by Rowan lawmakers

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — As the N.C. House and Senate negotiate the 2021-23 state budget, Rowan ...

News

NC Senate OKs bill limiting racial teachings

By Bryan Anderson Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH — North Carolina Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a bill ...

News

Lawmakers seek to control NC High School Athletic Association, not remove it

By Gary D. Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH — Senate Republicans shelved a proposal Thursday to end the North ...

Elections

In Salisbury City Council race, Jonathan Barbee hoping to increase young adult representation

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Despite being younger than the typical city council member, candidate Jonathan Barbee ...

News

Bill to curb racial teachings advances in North Carolina

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH (AP) — A state Senate hearing on how racial concepts ...

Elections

McLaughlin draws on 15 years with Secret Service, store owner experience city council bid

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — City Council candidate Harry McLaughlin says his 15-year career with the U.S. ...

Politics

Political Notebook: County boards of elections must allow voter registration for those on felony probation, post-release supervision

A three-judge panel in Wake County Superior Court entered a preliminary injunction Monday to restore voting rights to ...

News

Alexander drawing on architectural experience in seeing ‘the big picture’ in bid for mayor

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Mayor Karen Alexander says her decades of experience in architecture and urban ...

Elections

Heggins looking to record, military career to push big ideas if elected Salisbury mayor

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — In the city’s inaugural mayoral race, Mayor Pro Tem Al Heggins says ...

Nation/World

Redistricting activities heating up as court battles loom

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The fight over redrawing political maps is just ramping up in state legislatures ...

News

House approves restrictions on NC nonprofit donor disclosures

RALEIGH (AP) — A bill described by supporters as one that prevents snooping into citizens’ contributions to North ...

Elections

Councilman David Post drawing on record of accomplishments for re-election

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Though City Council member David Post says he’s accomplished much of what ...

Elections

State Board of Elections will determine county’s voting plans after Rowan board fails to reach consensus

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — After failure of the county board to unanimously agree on an early ...

News

Council candidate Nalini Joseph looks to use decades of experience in courts if elected

By Natalie Anderson natalie.anderson@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — City council candidate Nalini Joseph calls herself a visionary with the ability ...

Politics

Political Notebook: Democrats in 2022 Senate race talk to voters in Kannapolis

KANNAPOLIS — Democratic candidates in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race joined the Rowan County Democratic Party Saturday in ...

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