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Ranked choice voting: worth another look in NC

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2025/01/10

North Carolina elections have been shown to be fair, efficient and honest, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t always room for improvement. And one important change our state would do well to take a second look at is ranked choice voting – a system in which voters rank candidates in their order of preference. […]

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Opposition to Judge Jefferson Griffin’s “meritless”...

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2025/01/09

If you’ve traveled through North Carolina lately, you may have spotted billboards from the capital to the coast featuring failed 2024 Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. The billboards, inspired by growing public backlash against Griffin’s efforts to reverse his election results by tossing the votes of 60,000 North Carolinians, point to an online hub (ccnc.me/wematter) hosted by […]

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Gov. Josh Stein is primed for success – if...

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2025/01/08

Few governors in North Carolina history have been better prepared for the job than our state’s new chief executive, Josh Stein. Not only has Stein spent much of his professional career in elected office, but he was also raised in a family that preached and lived the value of public service and social justice. […]

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America’s split screen: The caring and decency of...

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2025/01/07

This is a split screen moment in America. On one side of the screen, a former president is being memorialized this week not only for his service to country but for the principled life he personified with renowned caring and decency. On the other side of the screen, another former/future president is being remembered this […]

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Josh Stein has all the things he needs to be a great...

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2025/01/07

For some politicians, the rise to political power is meteoric and surprising. Donald Trump’s sudden ascent from conspiracy-theory-peddling reality TV host to the presidency is undoubtedly the most notable example of this phenomenon, but there have been others in recent years. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and wrestler Jesse Ventura won the governorships of California and Minnesota […]

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A new blueprint for a new governor

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2025/01/06

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Ranked Choice Voting would be good for North Carolina

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2025/01/02

Why Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)? Let’s talk about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). It’s a voting system that’s making elections fairer for millions of Americans—nearly 20 million, in fact! But what’s so great about it? Here are a few key benefits: Winners need majority support: With RCV, winners have to get over 50% of the vote. […]

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NC Newsline’s Top 10 editorial cartoons of 2024

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2024/12/31

We wrap up 2024 with some of John Cole’s favorite editorial cartoons from the year. From the contentious campaigns to the unity after Hurricane Helene, John captured it all in the past 12 months. Enjoy!

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Five reasons for progressives to take hope and stay...

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2024/12/31

Good riddance. That’s the first thought that springs to mind for a lot of caring and thinking people as they contemplate the passing of 2024 into the history books. Despite numerous moments of accomplishment and progress, the late-year decision of 49.9% of the American electorate to return Donald Trump and his uniquely toxic combination of […]

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NC needs to build on environmental policy...

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2024/12/30

Working together, states and the federal government have been able to achieve significant climate progress over the last four years. At the federal level, landmark legislation is boosting the clean energy industry, funding home weatherization, and reducing pollution. In North Carolina, transitioning to clean energy and growing electric vehicle manufacturing have already created significant job […]

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The NC GOP’s new version of “Auld Lang Syne”

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2024/12/30

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American by birth? Congratulations! But maybe have...

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2024/12/25

In a cabin in the Kaw Valley, a few miles northwest of what is now Lawrence, the first baby boy of white parents was born in Kansas. His name was Napoleon Boone (yes, of the famous Boone family and yes, named after that Napoleon) and he arrived Friday, Aug. 22, 1828. Napoleon’s entry into the […]

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Weekend humor from Celia Rivenbark: A consolation...

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2024/12/21

I’m just as happy as anybody to be seeing less of Kimberly Guilfoyle now that Don Jr. has dumped her. The way she walked around with her dinners hanging out all the time was tacky. That said, she didn’t deserve to be publicly humiliated by the likes of Don Jr. The paps grabbed a pic […]

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Belichick hiring highlights the absurdity of...

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2024/12/18

It’s not hard to see how college sports became fully professionalized over the decades. What started out more than a century ago as a natural outlet for young people competing for fun and pride was popular and it drew fans and attention and boosters. And thus, it wasn’t long before college teams and coaches […]

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Sen. Thom Tillis’s laughable complaints about...

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2024/12/17

America’s courts and the judges who sit on them have always been inextricably linked to the world of politics. Indeed, the idea that lawyers who are either appointed by politicians or who run for office themselves wouldn’t be political animals to some degree and often render judgments that reflect their own personal values and philosophies, […]

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Burgermeister Berger’s new mandate

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2024/12/16

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Weekend humor from Celia Rivenbark: New Trump venture...

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2024/12/14

Leave it to Donald Jehosephat Trump to come up with the perfect name for his new cologne and perfume line: FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! It’s really quite extraordinary isn’t it? Trump can develop and market a new fragrance line at the same time he has pledged to end, like, all the wars and stuff. How does […]

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Republicans’ reliance on past grievances to justify...

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2024/12/12

When they are challenged on their authoritarianism, North Carolina Republicans’ most frequent ploy is to retrieve grievances from decades ago. The party is run by a coterie of legislators who suffered years of irrelevance and disrespect at the hands of the eastern North Carolina Democratic machine, and these people still enjoy resurrecting Democratic misdeeds to […]

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NC Supreme Court candidate’s recount demands are...

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2024/12/10

North Carolina Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin was fully within his rights in recent weeks to request a pair of recounts in his razor-thin loss to incumbent Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. While the number of result-altering recounts – either in North Carolina or anywhere else in the country – has been […]

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Today is a day to lift up human rights

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2024/12/10

Americans have a rightful reverence for the people who’ve served and sacrificed in our nation’s wars. It’s why we celebrate Memorial Day and Veterans Day – and other patriotic holidays like Independence Day, Flag Day and Armed Forces Day. And today marks another celebration that deserves similar attention and respect, but that unfortunately seldom […]

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