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The article discusses Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a small durable lead President Donald Trump in North Carolina, fully 64 percent of voters have cast ballots, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Thursday.

The article reports on the conservative agenda by North Carolina legislature where judges in state courts must identify their party affiliation on ballots, adopting a partisan court elections. It notes the reduction of the size of the state Court of Appeals, depriving Democratic Governor Roy Cooper of naming replacements for retiring Republicans. It also notes the boundaries for judicial districts, seen by critics to increase the number of Republican judges on district and superior courts.

The article discusses investigations into a February 2, 2014 ash spill in the Dan River in Raleigh, North Carolina. It addresses changes in the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources that lessened the power of state workers to prevent water pollution and emphasizes the role of these changes in light of the spill, which was caused by the gas and electricity company Duke Energy. Two citations that will be given to the company are also discussed.

One would think that a nominating convention is a command performance for prominent members of a president's party. But that is not the case for vulnerable Democrats running in districts where President Obama is less than popular. Senator Senator Claire McCaskill on Tuesday became the latest Democrat to decide to skip the party's national convention in Charlotte, N.C., later this summer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]