Billy Ball is Cardinal & Pine's senior community editor. He’s covered local, state and national politics, government, education, criminal justice, the environment and immigration in North Carolina for almost two decades, winning state, regional and national awards for his reporting and commentary.
One of the best chefs in North Carolina and a master of NC seafood talks climate change, weathering a pandemic, and doing his part to preserve local fishing ope...
NC schools used pandemic relief dollars from the feds to fill holes torn by the pandemic and underfunding from the state. Now those dollars are going away....
The Wolfpack men and women will compete for a national championship in college bball. Plus: A rare solar eclipse, and Charlotte’s first Latino film festival....
This🔥🔥 Taylor Evans, a public school teacher in Vance County, NC, had this advice for North Carolinians who are steamed about the chronic underfunding of ...
DYK the @ncartmuseum recently kicked off a new exhibit of Indigenous art?👏🏻 The Raleigh museum is showing “To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in...
Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, on how her upbringing— her father was a history teacher—helped her understand how the pa...
More honors for one of NC’s prettiest little mountain towns. 🏔️ @southernliving recently named their picks for best small towns in each state, and Bl...