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Nelle Dunlap
Nelle Dunlap, New Media Director, is a digital artist with a background in education, community organizing, and design. At N.C. Policy Watch, Nelle keeps the website running smoothly and collaborates with reporters to create new visual content — including video, info-graphics, and interactive social media. [email protected] 919-861-1454
Defending Democracy: A steady drumbeat of new and original content
By: Nelle Dunlap - April 16, 2018
Legislature takes first step to combat sexual harassment; advocates say it’s far from sufficient
By: Nelle Dunlap - March 22, 2018
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Despite backing of legislature and UNC leaders, critics worry NC’s lab school experiment is doomed to failure
By: Nelle Dunlap - February 7, 2018
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Two days remain to comment on how DEQ should spend $92 million to clean up the state’s air
By: Nelle Dunlap - December 14, 2017
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Pressure mounts on NC’s largest pork producer to clean up its act
By: Nelle Dunlap - December 6, 2017
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Info-graphics – Judicial Redistricting Maps
By: Nelle Dunlap - November 14, 2017
[tabgroup] [tab title=”District Court Double Bunkings”][table id=26 /].[/tab] [tab title=”Superior Court Double Bunkings”][table id=27 /][/tab] [/tabgroup] [line_list] Use (+) and (-), double click, or mouse controls to zoom in and out of map Click and drag to move map Hover over marks to display name, affiliation, and other date Click (HOME) icon to […]
Lawmakers refuse to say how incumbent judges and D.A.’s fare in new maps; so we did it for you
By: Nelle Dunlap - September 27, 2017
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NC’s gerrymandering saga: Where things stand and what’s next
By: Nelle Dunlap - September 22, 2017
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More with less: With $3 million in the balance, initial AG cuts take effect
By: Nelle Dunlap - September 11, 2017
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In midst of merit selection talk, snapshot of demographic data shows NC judges are overwhelmingly white
By: Nelle Dunlap - August 21, 2017
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Crucial Conversation Luncheon – Prof. Nancy MacLean on her provocative new book, “Democracy in Chains”
By: Nelle Dunlap - July 12, 2017
NC Policy Watch presents a special Crucial Conversation luncheon: Prof. Nancy MacLean on her provocative new book, “Democracy in Chains” Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, has been described by Publishers Weekly as “a thoroughly researched and gripping narrative… [and] a feat of American intellectual and political history.” Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.”
Generations of progress at risk: New report explains NC’s disappearing middle class
By: Nelle Dunlap - July 11, 2017
Does it feel like your paycheck never goes as far as it used to? Do you scratch your head when leaders in Raleigh talk about how great our economy is doing? Did you or someone you know lose a good job during the Great Recession and struggle mightily to recover ever since?