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Health Care Horror Show

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2025/10/30

It’s the Halloween season and this year, there’s no shortage of holiday scares. The federal government is shut down. Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their health care coverage or facing skyrocketing premium increases, and millions more won’t be receiving the food assistance they need to feed their families come November 1. Americans […]

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Top stocking stuffer this holiday season — affordable...

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2025/10/27

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Well, almost. Autumn leaves will fall first, rolling out a brownish-orange carpet for Thanksgiving and, before that, Halloween. Just how happy those holidays will be is the thing. The National Retail Federation (NRF) should have some insight during a Nov. 6 media call announcing its retail sales […]

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Trick or Treat?

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2025/10/27

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North Carolina needs evidence-driven solutions not...

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2025/10/08

“There will be no firing squads in North Carolina during my time as governor,” Governor Josh Stein said Oct. 3 after signing a criminal justice bill into law in response to the tragic murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail. A statement we can’t believe had to be uttered in 2025. Iryna’s […]

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Poll exposes potential Achilles’ Heel for the...

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2025/10/07

There are more than a few modern American progressives who wish that the leaders on their side of the great national political divide possessed the same commitment to hardball, take-no-prisoners politics as their conservative adversaries. “Boy, we sure hate what they’re doing to our country,” goes the thinking that one often hears expressed, “but we […]

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North Carolina’s Zen governor

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2025/09/09

The governor of North Carolina earns an annual salary of a little over $200,000 per year. While it’s only about a fifth or less of what the average partner in a big law firm can expect to bring home and a fiftieth what the football coach at the state’s flagship university rakes in, it’s still […]

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The power of the Community Land Trust model in...

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2025/09/09

In Raleigh’s Idlewild neighborhood, where formerly enslaved people once secured land as a foothold to freedom, history is repeating itself in a new way. This summer, shovels hit the ground on 18 homes that will remain affordable—not just for the first buyers, but for every family who comes after them. In a state where housing […]

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Who’s picking up the tab?

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2025/09/08

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On holiday…

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2025/09/01

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A public school math lesson

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2025/08/25

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Medicaid ain’t what it was…

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2025/08/18

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Task force outlines some commonsense first steps to...

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2025/08/07

Early childhood education. Across much of the rest of the world, free, public early childhood education is a basic right. At a time in which it’s necessary for almost all parents to work in order to make ends meet, these nations have long recognized that there’s no good reason to hold off on providing […]

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A simple and commonsense tax proposal

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2025/08/06

Tax policy can be maddeningly complex and confusing. Indeed, keeping it that way is one tool the super-rich use to avoid paying their fair share. As Alexandra Sirota of the nonpartisan North Carolina Budget and Tax Center recently observed, however, it doesn’t have to be that way. As she notes, there’s a simple and […]

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Lack of air conditioning in state prisons is cruel...

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2025/08/05

There are many things that have changed for the better in North Carolina prisons over the last century. That said, it’s also true that North Carolina summers have always been miserably hot and that commercial air conditioning was first introduced nearly a century ago — facts that render the lack of air conditioning in […]

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New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears

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2025/08/04

Ever since North Carolina legislators established the so-called “Opportunity Scholarships” school voucher program, sponsors and proponents have pitched it as a means of helping low-income students escape struggling public schools. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, a new report from the Department of Public Instruction shows that this was all baloney. The DPI researchers found that […]

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Who’s entering the race?

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2025/08/04

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From Katrina to Chantal, we can’t afford to ignore...

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2025/08/03

Less than a month after I moved to Durham for graduate school, Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina. Helene, the deadliest storm to ever hit the state, took 108 lives and caused an estimated $48.8 billion in damage. Less than a year later, Tropical Storm Chantal killed six North Carolinians and did more than $56 […]

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Democratic lawmaker embarrasses with uninformed...

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2025/08/01

It’s no surprise that State Rep. Carla Cunningham – a Democrat from Mecklenburg County — declined to speak with reporters this week after helping to override Gov. Stein’s veto of a mean-spirited and ill-conceived anti-immigrant bill. That’s what often happens when a politician puts their foot in their mouth. House Bill 318 will force […]

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New tax law means less to celebrate on the 60th...

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2025/07/31

For more than a decade, the number of people without health insurance has dropped steadily reaching record lows over the last few years thanks to policy changes like Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Although there’s still a long way to go to improve affordability, coverage and health outcomes, for years we made […]

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The cruel incompetence of the Trump administration’s...

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2025/07/31

New research from the national news organization Stateline highlights some of the big flaws in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies. While the administration has made much of its supposed commitment to cracking down on violent criminals and blaming Democrats for failing to do so, the research actually reveals a significant decline in this […]

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