Is there something in the drinking water down in Johnson County? 

First, in April, Republican board of education member Ronald Johnson was indicted for allegedly extorting a Republican congressional candidate into pressuring a woman to recant her claim that she’d had an affair with Johnson. […]

Jeffrey Billman is a politics and law reporter for The Assembly. The former editor-in-chief of INDY in Durham, he holds a master's degree in public policy analysis from the University of Central Florida.

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.