Rusty Jacobs
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Rusty Jacobs is a politics reporter for WUNC. Rusty previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007 and now returns after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at Carolina and then worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.
As a reporter, he has covered a wide array of topics including military affairs, sports, government and damaging storms.
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State and local election officials consumed with preparing for a midterm just seven weeks away must contend with persistent — yet baseless — claims from 2020.
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A statewide tour of election experts wants to counter misinformation among North Carolina voters ahead of the 2022 midterms. -
NextGen America will register students on 17 college campuses across the state — and at hundreds of other schools in battleground states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michgan — as they return for the fall semester
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A survey of local elections directors showed more than a dozen incidents of party-appointed precinct observers violating rules of conduct in this May's primaries.
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The state Democratic Party has filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to block a lower court's order that the Greens be added to North Carolina's 2022 ballot
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The high court will consider whether to hear arguments over the conservative "independent state legislature" theory.
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TV stations in North Carolina have pulled controversial ads targeting Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Cheri Beasley. A lawyer with the powerful Democrat-aligned Elias Law Group wrote a letter to TV station managers in Raleigh and Charlotte urging them to pull the ads, saying they're false and misleading.
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TV stations in North Carolina have pulled controversial ads targeting Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Cheri Beasley.
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Despite bipartisan support in the Republican-majority state senate, House Speaker Tim Moore says medical marijuana legislation is unlikely to reach the floor in his chamber.
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The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the challenge to the N.C. congressman's candidacy.
