Tom Bullock
Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.
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A federal judicial panel's ruling that North Carolina's legislature illegally used partisanship as the primary factor in drawing congressional districts is causing political chaos there.
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Under orders from a federal judge, North Carolina lawmakers are redrawing the state's legislative map. It's not clear if the new map will address the court's concerns about racial gerrymandering.
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There was a second night of protests in Charlotte, following Tuesday's shooting death of Keith Scott, a 43 year-old African-American man, by a Charlotte police officer.
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For the first time this election season, President Obama will campaign with Hillary Clinton. They are making a stop in North Carolina, a state Democrats would love to win back.
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North Carolina is a crucial state that Republicans need to win if they are to take the White House this fall. But so far, Donald Trump's campaign has almost no presence there.
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A recently passed North Carolina law made it the only state to require people use public restrooms based on the sex listed on their birth certificate. A federal lawsuit is challenging the law as discriminatory.
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North Carolina's congressional primaries are in chaos after a panel of federal judges threw out the state's electoral maps.
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Said one observer, "Some sitting members of Congress woke up the next morning after these maps had been released and went, 'Oh, boy, I don't even live in the district now.' "
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Campaigns for Congress and the White House are barred from directly working with independent groups that can raise unlimited amounts of money. But states set their own rules on coordination. -
South Carolina officials lowered the Confederate battle flag for the last time on Friday at the State House grounds. The governor signed the bill on Thursday to remove the flag amid great fanfare. There was tremendous debate from lawmakers and residents about whether it should be removed.
