LNC GOV Team: The content below is a duplication of the resource page and homework assignments for your class. You can use this as a launching pad to develop the content you want to share. Joey and Patrick are your assigned Resource Page coordinators, but everyone gets to play a role in aligning resources and homework with your program content.
Joey and Patrick: Please take the lead on the following and let the LNC team know how we can be helpful.
- Check each link for relevance and timeliness
- Flag anything you think could be dropped
- Flag any broken links
- Share updated links for anything outdated
- Share suggestions for new resources and solicit them from your fellow committee members
- We will invite all presenters to share suggestions when we hold planning calls in October
Everyone
- Get your suggestions for for additions, deletions, corrections to Patrick and Joey by Sept. 25
Schedule
- All committee suggestions to Joey and Patrick by Sept. 25
- Joey and Patrick share recommendations with Kelly by October 9
- Kelly finesses page by October 16, continuing to add any recs that come in from presenters after that
- LNC shares page with Class 34 by Oct. 23
The following links are resources recommended by session presenters, planning committee members, and past LNC speakers. These are not required, but exploring those that interest you will enrich your experience both during and after the November Government Session.
General Resources
- “About the NC Museum of Natural Sciences”
- North Carolina Beyond the Connected Age: The Tar Heel State in 2050, by Michael L. Walden Book recommendation by Joe Stewart
- “What Will North Carolina’s Economy Look Like in 2050?” NC State News Article, October 9, 2017
- John Davis Political Report
- NC Policy Watch
- Carolina Journal
- 2018 County Map Book–North Carolina Association of County Commissioners
- Gallup Poll “Most Important Problem” Research–Economic Issues and Immigration
- NC Department of Public Safety Crime Data Offender Search
“Legislator for an Hour” Simulation Resources
These links are also included on the Government Homework page along with the required reading assignment.
- “What will happen if voter ID comes back to NC? Here’s what happened last time”, N&O, October 12, 2018
- IOPL Voter ID Amendment Debate, Part 1
- “State Rep. David Lewis: Voter ID laws fair, protect the public,” Winston-Salem Journal, July 21, 2014
- “Q&A: Changes to NC election laws,” WRAL, August 12, 2013
- “North Carolina Passes the Country’s Worst Voter Suppression Law,” The Nation, July 26, 2013
- “In Rural N.C., New Voter ID Law Awakens Some Old Fears,” NPR, August 16, 2013
- “Requiring Photographic Identification by Voters in North Carolina,” The Heritage Foundation, July 18, 2013
- “North Carolina voter ID law overturned on appeal,” CNN, July 29, 2016
- “Strict North Carolina Voter ID Law Thwarted After Supreme Court Rejects Case,” NYT, May 15, 2017
- “North Carolina ‘intentionally passed’ discriminatory voter ID law lawyer says,” The Guardian, February 2, 2016
- “Why North Carolina needs a photo voter ID amendment,” N&O, October 19, 2018
