The Civitas Institute, a think tank founded and funded by GOP mega-donor and NC budget director Art Pope, demanded emails and other records from UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity Director Gene Nichol shortly after he published a column blasting the McCrory administration. Is this yet another fishing expedition aimed at harassing an outspoken academic?
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The conservative Civitas Institute is seeking emails and other records from Gene Nichol, a UNC law professor and director of the school's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. (Photo of Nichol courtesy of UNC.)
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