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Lynn Bonner

@lbonner.bsky.social

Reporter at NC Newsline covering health, politics, and voting.

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Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mississippi's state auditor doesn't have the authority to try to clawback welfare funds from Brett Favre or other defendants in the $77 million TANF scandal, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled. It said only the state attorney general can do that. The auditor claims she's not doing her job.

Mississippi State Auditor Can’t Sue Favre or Others Over Welfare Funds, High Court Rules

Mississippi’s state auditor doesn’t have the power to sue to recover misspent welfare funds from Brett Favre or other defendants, the top court ruled.

mississippifreepress.org

Jonathan Shorman@jonshorman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW - Republicans in Congress are again eyeing cuts to the Election Assistance Commission — despite election security rhetoric Election officials say the EAC’s election security grants are already woefully underfunded My latest for @statesnewsroom.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cong...

Congress weighs cuts to states’ already ‘insufficient’ election security dollars

Ahead of the November midterm elections, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have demanded Congress pass sweeping voting restrictions, including showing proof of citizenship to register —...

newsfromthestates.com

Sarah Edwards@eddysarah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

absolutely wild scoop by my @indyweek.bsky.social colleague @ccourtneybohl.bsky.social on the Town of Cary’s $330k spend on “documentary-style videos about town projects and culture”—including a mini doc about the leadup to a staff flash dance—for internal use.

How Cary Spent $330,000 on Videos Taxpayers Were Never Meant to See

The highly produced films offer a glimpse into Cary’s government under a former town manager accused of over-the-top spending.

indyweek.com

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tennessee’s new 9-0 GOP gerrymander would erase the Black VRA 9th District, its only Dem seat. Shown below, the map splits Memphis and Nashville almost evenly into 3 districts each where white Republicans would outvote Black Dems in each city. Interactive map davesredistricting.org/join/2921405...

Graphic of Tennessee Republicans' proposed 9-0 congressional gerrymander that turns the majority-Black and solidly Democratic 9th District in Memphis into a majority-white and safely Republican seat. A statewide map on top shows the 2024 presidential election results by district, which are all colored solidly red because Donald Trump won each by at least 20 percentage points. On the right side, a chart shows the election results and the percentage of the population that is white or Black for each district and the state. On the bottom are two insets of the heavily Democratic Memphis and Nashville areas with the district lines overlaid on a map of the Black population percentage in each precinct. The map splits each city into three districts that are heavily white and Republican, with roughly a third of each city in a different district. Memphis is nearly two-thirds Black, but the map largely splits Black voters there into two districts that sprawl hundreds of miles eastward from the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi borders to the Nashville exurbs in the center of the state.
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 3mo ago

The new congressional gerrymander Tennessee Republicans released Wednesday would shatter the state’s only majority-Black district and ensure that Donald Trump would have won every seat by at least 20 points.

Elisha Brown@elishabrown.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In January, @propublica.org wrote a story about the plight of Ciji Graham, a Black woman in North Carolina who died in 2023 waiting for an abortion. An NC senator recently filed a bill named after Graham that would help people with high-risk pregnancies get timely care, @lbonner.bsky.social reports.

An NC police officer died during pregnancy. Her family says it didn’t have to happen. • NC Newsline

Doctors sent her home in 2023 without treating her rapid heartbeat because she was pregnant, and she was unable to quickly obtain an abortion because of new restrictions that were enacted in North Car...

ncnewsline.com

ProPublica@propublica.org · 4mo ago

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women

The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

propublica.org