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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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‘Roots’

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2024/12/09

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Town’s timely lawsuit against Duke Energy should...

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2024/12/09

The growing global movement to make energy and utility companies help pay for some of the massive damage caused by climate change continues to gain momentum. Last week, the North Carolina town of Carrboro sued Duke Energy seeking compensation for big and growing expenses it’s facing thanks to the impacts of severe weather driven in […]

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Weekend humor from Celia Rivenbark: “Pardon” isn’t...

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2024/12/07

Editor’s note: Longtime syndicated humor columnist Celia Rivenbark, who has graced these virtual pages for years, in now writing a column on Substack called “Celia Dishes,” which she described to NC Newsline as “a mishmash of profane, hopefully funny rants and great recipes.” Celia says she plans to start charging for subscriptions in in the […]

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Assaults on higher education signal authoritarian intent

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2024/12/06

Donald Trump was perfectly serious when he said he “loves the poorly educated.” Authoritarians always love the poorly educated and the mis-educated. The well-educated, the readers, the questioners, those who demand evidence, gather facts, and trust verifiable information (as opposed to propaganda) are a threat. Aspirants to dictatorhood know the first play is destroy education. […]

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NC GOP hits new lows with power grab bill, effort to...

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2024/12/05

The day Senate Bill 382 was introduced, I raced to the General Assembly, knowing immediately that this was more than just another piece of legislation. It’s a calculated assault on the very foundations of our freedoms. Cloaked in the language of disaster recovery, but designed to make major changes to our democracy, this bill is […]

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NC physician: Deemphasizing intensive animal...

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2024/12/04

While scientists race to learn what a seriously ill California teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks, my fellow physicians and I remain vigilant for symptoms of bird flu. It is particularly important to watch patients closely for symptoms here in North Carolina, a top U.S. chicken meat and egg producer. In […]

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“Group of pawns”? At the NC legislature the “GOP”...

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2024/12/03

North Carolina’s Republican-dominated state legislature is back in Raleigh this month for more of what’s become a post-election tradition when Democrats manage to win a few statewide offices or narrow the margin in the absurdly gerrymandered state House and Senate: seizing power. This year’s exercise got underway the week before Thanksgiving when Republican leaders unveiled […]

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The new D.E.I. hire

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2024/12/02

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Protecting hope in the face of fear

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2024/11/29

The week before Thanksgiving, I spoke with an immigration attorney in Madison, Wisconsin, Grant Sovern, who helped found the Community Immigration Law Center (CILC) — part of a flurry of new services created in the wake of the 2018 ICE raids that terrorized Dane County during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration. No one knows what […]

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New report: Duke Energy, predecessors understood...

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2024/11/29

It’s a great tragedy of our time that the global climate change crisis is not something that emerged suddenly or as a surprise. Not only have scientists predicted how it would play out for decades, so too have many of the polluters whose CO2 emissions have done so much to cause it. A powerful new […]

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Thanksgiving is a good day to remember some important...

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2024/11/28

For many decades, Americans have celebrated the notion that the first Thanksgiving represented a warm and solemn celebration in which kind-hearted Native people broke bread with and welcomed European immigrants to the New World. As historians have documented in recent years, however, the truth was more complex and not nearly as inspiring. In truth, the […]

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Understanding the reality of school vouchers

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2024/11/27

Imagine for a moment that state leaders decided to implement a change in how North Carolina provides core public services. Instead of everyone in a community relying on the same police and fire departments, people would instead choose private vendors and receive a check from the government to partially underwrite the cost. And the […]

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Reproductive freedom is a human right

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2024/11/26

Ipas, a global reproductive justice organization, has been on the front lines of many of the legal battles and wins around the world where abortion has been liberalized. Our driving force is our belief that abortion is a human right, and our work is firmly grounded in a human rights frame — the right to […]

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NC Senate leader should apologize for spreading...

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2024/11/26

North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger is a smart lawyer and has long been one of our state’s most powerful elected officials. And unlike some conservatives who are prone to promoting crazy conspiracy theories, Berger has traditionally been more responsible than that. Unfortunately, that seems to be changing. Last week, Berger made […]

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NC GOP leaders muster only bogus explanations for...

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2024/11/26

In case you ever wondered, here’s a sure indicator that a politician has been caught doing something sketchy and underhanded. When the only explanation they have for an action they’re taking is to mumble that it’s “business as usual” or that it’s analogous to something their political adversaries once did, you know they’re up to […]

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