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NCGA well represented with veterans. Thank you!
Happy Veterans’ Day! How big of a deal is the military in North Carolina? Well, it’s is a pretty big deal. North Carolina has the 3rd largest military population in…
Earline Parmon
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Wonder who she'll support for president?
I bumped into Rep. Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth, in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, which is home to the North Carolina delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Parmon left…
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Parmon campaign stiffs restaurant?
A Winston-Salem restaurant owner says Rep. Earline Parmon’s campaign stiffed him on a fundraising event during the primary. Parmon’s staff is saying the guy who signed the $722 bill isn’t…
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail — June 4, 2012
• It’s official. Pat McCrory is the GOP nominee for governor. • Conservative activists set up a super PAC to support Justice Paul Newby in his Supreme Court re-election…
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Bipartisan eugenics bill introduced
State House leaders of filed a bipartisan bill that would compensate victims of the state’s eugenics program. The amount victims would receive is $50,000 apiece. The bill is filed by…
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N&O uses report to target Republicans
According to an article published in the News & Observer, North Carolina dropped in annual rankings of state pre-kindergarten programs published by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). …
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
N.C. Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, won’t seek re-election due to health concerns; he endorses Rep. Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth, for the Senate seat he had planned to seek (Winston-Salem Journal) A…
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Eugenics town hall meeting
House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rep. Earline Parmon will be hosting a town-hall meeting on the state’s eugenics program on Wednesday, Feb. 1 in room 267 of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center.…
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Redistricting: A little more enthusiasm, please
As you can probably imagine, responses to Republican redistricting plans have been less than enthusiastic. Suddenly, compliance with the Voting Rights Act is no longer a virtue: On Tuesday, Rep.…
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How’s that CHANGE working out?
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board member Vic Johnson goes off on Earline Parmon, Larry Womble and CHANGE, saying they’re responsible for the selection of Republican John Davenport to replace the retiring…
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Paging Larry Womble and Earline Parmon
Interesting situation they have over at the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education following the resignation of 81-year-old Geneva Brown. Former local NAACP president Stephen Hairston is concerned about Brown’s successor.…
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Journal calls for nonpartisan elections
Voicing its opposition to Rep. Dale Folwell’s bill, the Winston-Salem Journal calls for all local elections to be nonpartisan. I understand the mainstream media’s fascination with nonpartisan elections —-they provide…