Opinion
By Alexandra Sirota County Beacon Every time lawmakers push another round of tax cuts for people in corner offices and wealthy corporations, rural communities are told to accept less: fewer teachers, fewer doctors, fewer services, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. That's why so many small towns
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County Beacon Newsletter #21
Newsletter
Early voting starts next week, and Granville County voters could be forgiven for feeling like the county’s early voting plan – which moves the most popular and convenient early voting site five miles outside of Oxford – was shoved down their throats. It turns out that’s exactly what happened, as
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Reporting from the Raleigh News & Observer shows that a Granville County Board of Elections member was ready to give in to public pressure but appeared to be bullied into carrying out a partisan plan to move two popular Granville County early voting sites out of diverse population centers in
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NC Newsline's Lynn Bonner reports that 80% of registered North Carolina voters want partisan politics out of election administration.
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A so-called ‘compromise’ plan spearheaded by partisan actors doesn’t tell the full story of what happened to Granville County’s early voting sites.
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The North Carolina State Board of Elections took away Granville County’s most popular early voting site in downtown Oxford on Thursday night, making it harder for people in the majority-Black city to vote early in the upcoming election. “ So now my question is, if they've said
Education
This November, North Carolina voters are being asked to decide on two constitutional amendments that could shape how public schools and local governments are funded in the future. Read more about the proposed amendments here. These proposals may sound simple, but they have become a hot topic among education advocates
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Granville County’s ongoing dispute over early voting locations is now heading to the state. On August 20, the State Board of Elections will meet in Raleigh to consider and adopt early voting plans for North Carolina counties that did not pass a unanimous plan. This comes after weeks of
Granville County
Granville County Board of Elections Secretary Debby Butler stayed mostly quiet during Wednesday’s public hearing to revisit the county’s contentious early voting plan, which removes convenient sites in diverse neighborhoods in Oxford and Creedmoor and has prompted significant community backlash. But after Democratic board members had been imploring