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Pless easily cruises to third term in House District 118
Pless earned 30,687 votes, besting Marshall nurse Evelyn Davidson, who came away with 19,393 votes. His 61.28% tally this go-round approaches his career best of 63.6% in a 2020 victory over Alan Jones, however, Pless’ district included Yancey County at the time.
Haywood commissioner Ramey rebuked
2024年12月3日 · Editor’s note: this story contains strong language. S ince his election in 2022, Haywood County Commissioner Terry Ramey has been known for lying — about his delinquent taxes, about his votes, about being assaulted — but this time, his acquiescent appearance in a YouTube video that spread misinformation about the county’s powers to circumvent state law has Ramey’s fellow ...
Despite flooding, Jackson escapes worst of Hurricane Helene impact
2024年10月2日 · Emergency services had already begun to see power outages across Jackson County shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday morning. By 5 p.m. that same day, the county had opened two emergency shelters at the Cashiers Recreation Center and the Department on Aging Center.
Voter Guide 2024 - smokymountainnews.com
2024年10月23日 · N.C. Governor Josh Stein - D Josh Stein earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College in 1988 along with his J.D. and his master’s of public policy from Harvard University in 1995. Stein is currently serving in his second term as the North Carolina attorney general. In the past he w...
Tropical Storm Helene hits Western North Carolina
2024年9月26日 · 11:48 a.m., Sept. 27 — Kyle Perrotti. Gov. Roy Cooper offered a brief address and answered a few questions at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27. Cooper began the press conference with some information everyone in Western North Carolina already knows.
Long road to recovery ahead for Waynesville’s post-Helene …
2024年10月10日 · “’Hey visitors, thank you for caring about us. We'd love for you to come, but we want you to know the facts before you come.’ And let me tell you, knowing the facts is huge, because we are doing a disservice to our emergency workers, to our neighbors who have experienced devastation, including right down the hill in Frog Level, and to our visitors when we say, ‘It's fine, just come ...
Knowing the difference: fact versus opinion
2024年12月4日 · Personal income, on average, has kept up with inflation since Biden became president. In a May 2024 Congressional Budget Office report (the most recent available), the agency concluded that “for households in every quintile (or fifth) of the income distribution, the share of income required to pay for their 2019 consumption bundle decreased, on average, because income grew faster than prices ...
General Assembly’s Helene relief bill ‘a first step’
2024年10月15日 · After a series of emotional speeches by western legislators during an Oct. 9 press conference and assurances from Senate President Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) that the measure was only a “first step,” North Carolina’s General Assembly unanimously passed, and Gov. Roy Cooper signed a wide-ranging $273 million storm relief act on Oct. 10 that will fund recovery spending by state agencies ...
Federal, state officials tour Haywood County after Helene
2024年10月9日 · Although cellular and internet services are slowly and sporadically coming back, Cooper apparently took note of sharp commentary made by Smathers on Sept. 28, when he called out telecommunications companies for the failure of their infrastructure — which impeded rescue operations, kept citizens out of the loop with automated warnings and put lives at risk at the peak of the storm.