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National survey reveals a painful truth about...

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2024/08/08

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Two years out: North Carolina and the Inflation...

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2024/08/07

Imagine a future where your monthly bills are lower, your energy is greener, and you know exactly how much your energy bill will be when it is due. For us in North Carolina, that future is here and now. Two years ago next week, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed by President Biden to […]

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The giant elephant-in-the-room ‘tax’ that we must no...

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2024/08/06

When most Americans – including a frustrating percentage of elected officials — are asked about what they see as the issue that poses the greatest threat to our nation’s fiscal and economic wellbeing, the chances are high they will guess wrong. The current national electoral debate makes this unfortunate, if not terribly surprising, situation painfully […]

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A shifting stance…

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2024/08/05

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New investments in environmental resilience are a win...

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2024/08/05

Last week Governor Roy Cooper hosted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan at The Nature Conservancy’s Green Swamp Preserve to announce EPA’s historic $421 million grant to North Carolina and three surrounding states, dedicated to the protection and restoration of wetlands, forests and coastal habitats. This investment will play an essential role in preserving […]

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UNC should be more than a trade school

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2024/08/01

In a memo he sent introducing himself to the campus community, UNC-Chapel Hill interim chancellor Lee Roberts expressed a desire to move toward applied disciplines. He wanted steer more students into “high-demand fields” to satisfy “critical state needs.” This is corporate-speak, resonant of Roberts’s career in the financial sector, so insipid as to be almost […]

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Today is a day to volunteer to support democracy

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2024/08/01

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If this is privatization, give us more government...

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2024/07/30

If there’s a most persistent and destructive myth that’s permeated American public policy debates in recent decades, it is the fable of privatization. You know how this goes: “Once upon a time there was a wasteful public program that was turned over to hardworking private entrepreneurs who ‘ran it like a business’ and transformed it […]

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Legislature’s failure to pass budget bill undermines...

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2024/07/30

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Mass deportation would be an atrocity

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2024/07/29

My mother is an immigrant. She left Ireland when she was 17. That’s what the young Irish did in the late 1950s. There were no jobs. And there was no opportunity. Forget college: There was no free secondary education until the late 1960s. Having finished the equivalent of eighth grade, the only way she could […]

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State’s “acting governor” law is silly and obsolete

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2024/07/29

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It’s time for Duke Energy to support an electric grid...

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2024/07/26

When Winter Storm Elliott struck the Carolinas in late 2022, we all remember the havoc wrought by plunging temperatures and blackouts. Coal and gas plants froze up, leaving millions in the dark. Better transmission connections with our neighbors would have ensured access to energy even at the height of the storm, and now we’ve got […]

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Watch what NC politicians are doing to our elections,...

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2024/07/25

When people who actually care about free and fair elections called the wave of election law changes in North Carolina voter suppression, conservatives and election deniers clutched their proverbial pearls and cried that they were being unfairly attacked. They said making same day registration more difficult, requiring an ID to cast a ballot, complicating mail-in […]The post Watch what NC politicians are doing to our elections, not what they’re saying about them appeared first on NC

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Legislators get cold feet on gun safety, leave...

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2024/07/24

Earlier this month, North Carolina legislators returned home after a busy session in which they passed bills on everything from banning masking to allowing takeout cocktails. I know it’s hard to compete with mobile margaritas, but I can’t help but feel like our priorities are out of whack. So many other important initiatives got left […]The post Legislators get cold feet on gun safety, leave popular bipartisan programs underfunded appeared first on NC Newsline.

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U.S. is in good hands with president who puts the...

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2024/07/24

The post U.S. is in good hands with president who puts the nation first appeared first on NC Newsline.

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Gov. Cooper issues welcome orders of pardon and clemency

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2024/07/23

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The right swings and misses with absurd calls for...

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2024/07/23

The torrent of dramatic political news that’s been inundating our screens in recent days has been jampacked with all manner of comments and commentary – insightful and idiotic, inspiring and insipid, patriotic and pathetically partisan. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump and killing of a bystander at a Pennsylvania campaign rally even gave rise to […]The post The right swings and misses with absurd calls for Biden to resign appeared first on NC Newsline.

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The one positive development in recent weeks

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2024/07/22

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Abortion restrictions, inadequate investments...

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2024/07/22

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On his way out, Governor Cooper expands support for...

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2024/07/18

This article was originally published by Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and voting rights in local governments. After serving 14 months in prison for petty crimes, the state of North Carolina released me into homelessness on Dec. 30, 2000 with only the prison clothes on my back, a paper identification card, and $3.36 in […]The post On his way out, Governor Cooper expands support for people leaving prison appeared first on NC Newsline.

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