North State Journal — Vol. 1, Issue 29

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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 29

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

www.NSJONLINE.com

the Sunday News Briefing

commemorating 9/11

Absentee voting begins in NC Raleigh N.C. sent out absentee ballots on Friday to those who requested them, making North Carolinians among the first in the nation to cast a vote in the 2016 election. Tuesday, Nov. 1 is the final day to request an absentee ballot. The N.C. Board of Elections anticipates as many as 56 percent of the votes cast in the state will be cast before election day on Nov. 8.

Candidates to break from campaigning on 9/11 New York The organization 9/11 Day, a group founded by victims’ families, has issued a request for all political campaigns to suspend campaign activity, including advertisements, on Sunday, September 11, 2016, in observance of the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks, encouraging them to serve in their communities instead. “Americans everywhere wish to observe 9/11 in the same spirit of national unity, prayer and service that brought our country together in the immediate aftermath of the attacks,” said David Paine, president and co-founder of 9/11 Day.

U.S. stocks take a tumble on Friday New York U.S. stocks dropped on Friday as investors were unnerved by a nuclear test by North Korea and comments by a U.S. Federal Reserve official that pointed toward boosting interest rates. North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile. The news, coupled with word that officials would not rule out a rate hike, caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall 194.77 points.

McCrory gets endorsement from small business organization The North Carolina chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business threw their support behind Gov. Pat McCrory’s re-election Friday, saying they support his efforts to reduce taxes and a reform regulatory law. The announcement came after McCrory and Cooper attended a meeting of community college presidents where they spoke to the group about how to prepare the workforce for a changing economy. Over the past three years, N.C. has netted approximately 300,000 new jobs, the sixth most of any state.

INSIDE

The Carolina Panthers opened the NFL season with a 21-20 loss at Denver. What went wrong. B1 How Appalachian State is preparing for the one of the biggest home game in school history. B8 Sports

Madeline Gray | north state journal

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Presidential campaigns battle for votes in NC By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were at an event on the same day for the first time this campaign season on Wednesday, discussing their differing views on national security at NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief” forum in New York. However much of the week’s campaigning was spent in North Carolina, with Trump, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, and Bill Clinton all visiting the state Tuesday, and Hillary Clinton speaking in Charlotte Thursday. “This election is going to determine in so many ways what kind of futures you will have. I don’t say that lightly,” Clinton said at Johnson C. Smith University. “Everybody always says every election is important, and I happen to believe that.” Trump, the Republican nominee, spoke at the Greenville Convention Center Tuesday evening and continued to paint himself as an outsider who can fix a “broken and corrupt” Washington. “We will never fix our rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it in the first place,” Trump said. “We will never solve our problems by relying on the politicians who created our problems.

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Racial tensions run high at early voting plan review By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — The State Board of Elections held votes Thursday to settle the disputed early voting plans from 33 counties, as both parties tried to tip the scales in their favor with not just how many hours polls are open, but exactly when and where. The NCSBE has five board members, two Democrats and three Republicans. They reviewed the county disputed plans, in most cases voting along party lines and only voting in favor of keeping Sunday voting if the county had it in past elections. The responsibility of designing early voting plans fell back to the three-member coun-

Former President Bill Clinton says goodbye to supporters after speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton in Durham on Tuesday.

ty boards suddenly in July when the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected North Carolina’s voter ID law that would have created one plan statewide. “I believe in voter access. This decision gave me a chance to ask for Sunday voting,” said Craven County Board of Elections member Zeda Trice, who submitted a plan that adds two Sundays of voting in her county. “We are only talking about eight hours and we had voting in 2012. The more time voters have to exercise their constitutional rights, the better it is for all of us.” Sunday is a popular voting day in the African-American community as NAACP, DemocSee NCSBE, page A8

Christine T. Nguyen | north state journal

U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield

Sept. 11 story of rebuilding and recharging a community from New York to Tarboro. C4 the good life

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State board of elections

“This election is the most important, the most consequential of our lifetime.”

See Campaigns, page A8

Cpl. Jose Rivera, left, and Sgt. Brenton Calvin, right, prepare the American flag before the XVIII Airborne Corps hosts a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at Fort Bragg on Friday in Fayetteville.

State Board of Elections member Joshua Malcolm listens to contested early voting plans for Person County during a hearing Thursday in Raleigh.

9/11

North Carolinians roll up sleeves and take time to remember By Donna King and Jeff Moore North State Journal FAYETTEVILLE AND RALEIGH — Across North Carolina on Sunday, communities will come together to remember a bright Tuesday morning in 2001, when two hijacked planes were slammed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center. A third plane was flown into the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field. The attacks were carried out by 19 highjackers. The nation later learned they were affiliated with al-Qaeda, a terror organization that, at that time, few Americans knew about. Their actions claimed the lives of

2,977 people across the three U.S. cities. “Fifteen years ago, the very fabric of our nation’s collective sense of security was torn.” said Fort Bragg’s Deputy Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher, before a remembrance ceremony at at the main post flag pole at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville Friday. Surrounded by the men and women that keep us safe at home and abroad, attendees enjoyed musical tributes by the Division band and chorus after the firing of volley. In his remarks, Hutmacher urged Americans to honor the sacrifices of the men and See 9/11, page A3

UNC Board of Governors sets a course for the future On Murphy to Manteo, page A5


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