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On October 9, Cal Cunningham, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s 2020 Senate race, gave an online press conference to reporters. It was a critical moment in his campaign: Over the past week, the generic but apparently wholesome Southern Democrat whose eventual victory over Republican incumbent Thom Tillis seemed all but preordained had become a man under siege. Cunningham was now primarily occupied with dealing with the fallout from a leaked series of explicitly sexual but not exactly sexually explicit text messages that he’d exchanged with a woman who was not his wife. Though labeled “sexts” by the media, the texts found Cunningham telling the woman, Arlene Guzman Tod
Republican lawmakers struck a deal with Gov. Roy Cooper this week to spend $30 million on rural broadband projects, freeing up money that had been tied up over federal spending rules.
Republican lawmakers struck a deal with Gov. Roy Cooper this week to spend $30 million on rural broadband projects, freeing up money that had been tied up over federal spending rules.
Updated December 9, 2020 8:54 p.m. EST
By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter
Raleigh, N.C. A state association of public school superintendents met last week in Greensboro for an in-person winter conference, and two attendees have tested positive for coronavirus, the group s executive director confirmed Wednesday.
The North Carolina School Superintendents Association, an advocacy and professional development group, held a multi-day conference last week at the Grandover Resort & Conference Center. The two attendees who tested positive are doing well, and all attendees have been notified, Executive Director Jack Hoke said. We followed all the regulations, Hoke said.
Executive orders in place limiting indoor public gatherings to 10 people have a number of exemptions, including for meetings in event spaces, which are limited to 100 people or 30 percent of fire code occupancy, whichever is smaller. Hoke said the group met that restriction and also wore masks, practiced so