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Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. “3 things happening” is Cardinal & Pine’s weekly look at the storylines and events worth your time.  It’s a short week. But that doesn’t mean North Carolina isn’t busy.  This week, a popular hiking and music festival returns to Highlands…

Plus: Remembering the Greensboro sit-ins Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. This newsletter was not written by artificial intelligence.  Why? Because computers are a lot more intelligent than I am. But for my money, I’d rather hear a human voice any day. Speaking of AI, data centers are going up across the state of…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend     Hey, it’s Billy. It’s appropriate that “Giving Tuesday” falls a day after most of the “Black Friday” and holiday shopping deals ship out.  The latter is a time of crass commercialism. The former is the opposite.  It’s about finding a cause…

Plus: Trump, the NC GOP, and medical marijuana Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. The bad news is that the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher closed its doors temporarily this week.  The good news is that, when it returns, this eastern NC attraction has very big plans.  In today’s edition of Good News…

Inside: The devastating blow to public schools Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. North Carolina, we had big breaking news today.  The state’s highest court issued a long-awaited ruling in the Leandro court case. You can read it here.  Essentially, the Republican majority sided with their party’s leadership in the state legislature, which argued…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Really important news for anyone who plans on voting—which, I assume, is every one of us. North Carolina Democrats have reached a settlement with Republicans over the fate of about 73,000 voters that the GOP wanted to boot off the…

Plus: Good news from across the state of NC. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. We all know groceries are more expensive. But as Cardinal & Pine contributor Ryan Pitkin points out in his new edition of Good News Friday, those aren’t the only things that are more expensive. Recreational, fun things are pricier,…

Plus: NC college grads talk AI Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Below, we’ve got your weekly guide to protests, plus a convo with a recent NC college grad about AI. But first:  It’s been called a reparations fund for domestic terrorists.  Today, in a new Billy Ball Explains NC, we examined what President…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Kerri Wilson and Zoe Clarke are nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Wilson works in the cardiology wing, Clarke in the intensive care unit. Both of them spoke to Cardinal & Pine’s Michael McElroy recently for our ongoing Bad Medicine…