Friday News: Deep is the divide

FAILURE TO REPEAL HB2 ENSURES N.C. POLITICS WILL REMAIN DEEPLY DIVIDED (LA Times) -- After North Carolina lawmakers refused to repeal House Bill 2, the law that curbs legal protections for LGBT people and has cost the state millions of dollars in boycotts and lost jobs, Democrats and Republicans took to a predictable pattern: blaming each other for the unraveling of the deal. Republican leaders thought they had reached a compromise that would allow the state to move past the controversial law. But in the end, any bill they could get rural Republicans to support, they could not get Democrats to sign up on.
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