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PUSH TO RATIFY EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT IN NC GAINS STEAM: Equal Rights Amendment supporters said Thursday it s still important for the North Carolina legislature to ratify the proposal for the sake of fair treatment for all women, even as ERA s future is being weighed by a court. General Assembly lawmakers and state and national ERA activists announced in an online news conference their redoubled efforts to bring ratification up for debate and votes this year. Democratic legislators said they plan to introduce such resolutions in the legislative session that begins in earnest next week. Republicans in charge of the General Assembly have been cool to acting on past such resolutions, but one expected bill sponsor said efforts to enshrine equal rights for women in the U.S. Constitution should be bipartisan. “It is time to guarantee equal pay, equal access and equal opportunity to everyone,” said Sen. Valerie Foushee, an Orange County Democrat.
ABC11 returned to Durham s McDougald Terrace public housing complex one year after the carbon monoxide crisis upended the lives of hundreds of residents. I want to move and I want to be stable, Bass said. I m not too good for the projects. I love everybody, but the gun violence is terrible. I don t got anything going on in my household, but I can t control what goes on outside that.
She said the year has been rough for people here.
She believes about 60% of the people whose apartments had to be fixed by DHA came back. I do have some people who call me and tell me they have gas leaks, she said. I do see the fire department out here and checking. We try and tell people here to follow all the precautions.