North State Journal — Vol. 2., Issue 41

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017

inside Hurricanes open season with win, Sports

EAMON QUEENEY | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Fans and players alike stand for the national anthem before the season opener Saturday between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Minnesota Wild at PNC Arena in Raleigh.

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NEWS BRIEFING

NC sends emergency management help to Puerto Rico Raleigh More emergency management personnel are headed to Puerto Rico to assist with recovery from Hurricane Maria. On Tuesday morning, a team of 10 emergency management staff left for the island territory to help coordinate disaster response. The team includes emergency managers from Chatham, Haywood and Hyde counties, and a State Highway Patrol employee originally from Puerto Rico. The group will be deployed for two weeks. They join 200 N.C. National Guard troops already there working. The death toll from Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico is now 43. Sixteen percent of the island has electricity restored.

U.S. Supreme Court declines to review computer hacking cases

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JOURNaL ELEVATE THE CONVERSATION

Princeville is still the home of their hearts, a year after Matthew Of the 750 single-family homes in Princeville, a third had major damage from Hurricane Matthew By Laura Ashley Lamm North State Journal

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a growing controversy over who can give permission to access a computer, a debate that goes to the core of what constitutes hacking in this era of widespread use of the internet and social media. The justices turned away two cases over whether it is a violation of federal antihacking law for account holders to give a thirdparty access to a computer system they do not own themselves. In doing so, they left in place a lower court ruling that found only computer system owners may grant authorization, and not account holders or employees with legitimate access credentials.

PRINCEVILLE — Hope in Princeville remains strong. Princeville, the oldest town chartered by blacks in America, still has hope, strength and perseverance as it continues to plan and rebuild a year after Hurricane Matthew. “The heart of Princeville is to stay where it is,” said Mayor Bobbie Jones. “Our ancestors’ blood, sweat and tears built this town. If we move, what does that say about the sacrifice and work of the freed slaves who established us?” Princeville was established

by freed slaves on an unwanted flood plain. Since its incorporation, the town has repeatedly flooded. Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 brought crippling destruction, leaving businesses closed and homes evacuated. The elevation of Princeville is a mere 30 feet. The dike protecting the town stands at 37 feet. The town was engulfed in water when the Tar River rose to 42 feet following Hurricane Floyd. In the first week of October Hurricane Matthew hit N.C., and three days later floodwaters silently and quickly brought devastation to the town. The Tar River rose again to 36 feet, one foot short of the dike’s peak. Despite the despair caused by these natural disasters, the See PRINCEVILLE, page A3

“The heart of Princeville is to stay where it is.”

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GREENSBORO — This weekend Donald Trump was in N.C. for the first time since being elected president. On Saturday night, Trump arrived in Greensboro for a private fundraiser held at the home of Louis DeJoy, national deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee and president of LDJ Global Strategies. DeJoy served as the N.C. state chair for Trump Victory during the campaign, helping to deliver the swing state for Trump. His wife, Aldona Wos, served as the N.C. secretary of Health and Human Services under former Gov. Pat McCory. Cost to attend the event ranged from $2,700 for individual dinners to $35,000 for co-hosts. Listed among the co-hosts were Melanie and Ed Broyhill of Winston-Salem, Jane and Roddy Dowd Jr. of Charlotte, April and Fred Eshelman of Wilmington and Raleigh developer John Kane. While the event was a high-dollar one by most standards, the most recent campaign finance reports show that the RNC is breaking new ground not with the big check-writers, but with the small ones, and analysts say that Trump is the reason.

“Citizens in every state have donated to the Republican Party because they want even more of the economic and political leadership offered by our Party and the Trump Administration.” — RNC Finance Chairman Steve Wynn

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MIKE THEILER | REUTERS

U.S. President Donald Trump uses an umbrella in a heavy rain and surrounded by security as he arrives for a fundraising event at the home of former New Breed Logistics CEO Louis DeJoy, in Greensboro, N.C.

By Timothy Gardner and Emily Flitter Reuters

Gov. Cooper vetoes election bill, signs budget changes into law

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By Donna King North State Journal

Trump EPA moves to eliminate Obama-era energy regulations

— Bobbie Jones, Princeville mayor

INSIDE

Trump drives record RNC small-donor fundraising

MADELINE GRAY | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally proposed on Tuesday to scrap the agency’s Obama-era energy regulation plan known as the “Clean Power Plan,” as the Trump administration seeks to slash fossil fuel regulation. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a notice that the agency intended to repeal the plan, which it said relied on controversial calcu-

lations of economic costs and benefits. The agency said it is “committed to righting the wrongs of the Obama administration by cleaning the regulatory slate,” and that “any replacement rule will be done carefully, properly, and with humility, by listening to all those affected by the rule.” Ending the plan could save up to $33 billion in compliance costs in coming years, the notice said. The move is part of President Donald Trump’s plan to revive the See ENERGY, page A12


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