In today’s news: local residents gather in Chapel Hill for a “Right to Light” rally against federal education cuts and threats to academic freedom. Also: early voting continues across North Carolina; state attorney general Jeff Jackson signs on to a federal lawsuit to try to stop the Trump administration from cutting off SNAP food benefits; voting-rights advocates file several lawsuits to challenge the state’s newly gerrymandered Congressional district map; the Hillsborough town board cancels a contract for license plate reader cameras, citing concerns over how the contractor planned to share the data it collected; the CommunityWorx thrift shop announces a public celebration-of-life event to remember their late executive director Barbara Jessie-Black; UNC men’s basketball gears up for another preseason exhibition; and Bill Belichick sizes up Syracuse ahead of Friday’s game.
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