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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The General Assembly approved new plans last week for North Carolina's congressional and state legislative districts. -
State lawmakers have OKed new redistricting plans to replace previous congressional and legislative district maps struck down by the North Carolina Supreme Court. -
The North Carolina Senate's top Republican and Democrat issued a joint statement Wednesday saying legislators from both parties will work together in the… -
Oral arguments in this redistricting case are set for this Wednesday. -
GOP leaders on Monday announced plans for the General Assembly to vote Wednesday on a bill that would push the May 17 primary to June 7. They say they are worried about the timing to redraw legislative or congressional districts should the Supreme Court soon strike down lines. -
A three-judge panel will now decide whether the North Carolina General Assembly's Republican majority gerrymandered political maps with extreme, unconstitutional partisan bias. -
The judges began hearing evidence Monday, and the state Supreme Court has told them to rule by early next week, with expected appeals to follow. -
Three state trial judges started hearing evidence Monday offered by lawyers for plaintiffs in lawsuits that allege district boundaries approved by the Republican-controlled legislature in November are tainted by extreme partisanship and racial bias that favor the GOP.
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The Grateful Dead performed five times at Duke University from 1971 to 1982. -
Madison Cawthorn's tactics have upended GOP politics in North Carolina.
