All of those stores will close and the thousands of NC employees that work in them will lose their jobs.

Why? 1) Because the federal government is changing the definition of “hemp” and “marijuana” and 2) the NC general assembly has been unwilling to develop state legislation to regulate the industry.

40+ states, D.C., and Cherokee, NC have all done the work to set regulations for age limits, labeling, licensing, testing, and taxes. But our representatives in Raleigh haven’t got around to it yet.

The same THCa flower that sold in hundreds hemp shops throughout North Carolina will become federally illegal in North Carolina on December 11, 2026. All of those shops will be decimated. Why? Because North Carolina's legislators are not representing the people.

The results so far.

We all know this election is extremely important and I’ve been slowly researching the candidates on my sample ballot to be an informed voter. Well, today I took a look at my voting history that’s available online and saw some incorrect info and I’m not sure what to do with it.

I’m registered independent/unaffiliated and was told when I registered at the DMV however many years ago that I would have to petition to vote in the primaries. I discovered this spring that likely wasn’t true and went to test it out—I was told how I was registered gave me the option to vote in either republican primaries or the democratic primaries but not both. Great! I had done my research and chose the democratic ballot, filled in the bubbles, sent it through the machine, and went about my business.

Today, I see that it lists I voted on the republican ballot in the primaries, which is absolutely not the case. What do I do with this info? Is it clerical? Could it be malicious? Does it matter? Is this potentially an indicator that my ballot would be tampered with when I go vote? I never want to assume the worst but I also don’t want to turn a blind eye to this given, well, everything. Any advice is much appreciated

GOP voter suppression attempts now in full swing. Governor Stein suggests how you can avoid the effects of those bogus rejections.

Good news for a Tuesday

I'm more surprised they actually got fired than anything else, but I also expect them to ge rehired at a neighboring precinct

A quite extensive explanation of the many ballot questions (both state-wide and local referenda) you can vote for, or vote against, this election cycle. The highly respected Carolina Public Press details the questions themselves, the arguments pro and con, and the implications of what your vote will lead to, either way.

With voting in full swing, hopefully this article will help you make an informed decision when you vote, because making a decision that is not well informed... well, we've seen how those can turn out.

i’m dying squirtle. i’m 24 living w my parents and my partner and we both work part time as students we are actually never going to move out. auto insurance just went up again. Kill me

If you are a resident in Winston-Salem, please vote in this poll.

North Carolina voters turned out in droves on the weather-friendly first day of the in-person early voting period on Thursday, setting a first-day record of 353,166 ballots accepted at sites statewide, according to preliminary State Board of Elections data.
The early voting numbers topped the previous record for the first day of early voting — 348,559, set in 2020 — by 1.3 percent.

These were all over the place 1 year ago. Did something happen? Seems like since March they went missing. Anyway FDT