Medicaid expansion has provided almost 300,000 North Carolinians with access to healthcare. Parker Chatham is the Executive Director of Restoration House, a low barrier homeless shelter in Bryson City. He says that Medicaid expansion has especially helped the...
On August 1st, North Carolina homeowners could be hit with steep insurance rate hikes. The North Carolina Rate Bureau has requested an average increase of 42.2%. Some counties on the coast, like Carteret and Onslow counties, could see rates increase as much as...
Medicaid expansion was launched on Dec. 1st and it’s already having a big impact on North Carolina, the state's top health official told us. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kody Kinsley told Cardinal & Pine that his office automatically enrolled 273,000...
President Joe Biden on Thursday visited Raleigh to announce an $82 million dollar investment in high-speed internet, which will help expand the critical technology to an additional 16,000 households in North Carolina through funding provided by the American Rescue...
It’s only been a month and a half since Medicaid expansion launched in North Carolina, but it’s already been life changing for many residents. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services automatically enrolled nearly 273,000 people into the program...
Imagine purchasing equipment that’s critical to the success of your business that costs you tens, if not over a hundred thousand dollars, but you’re not allowed to make repairs on the equipment yourself. That is the reality that farmers in North Carolina and across...
A third lawsuit was filed this week challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina’s latest gerrymandered maps. The lawsuit argues the state’s newly-drawn Congressional and state legislative maps — which Republicans drew to maintain their stranglehold on power...
There are now three lawsuits against the new congressional election maps drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature. Each says that they drew them to intentionally dilute the voting power of Black North Carolinians.
Imagine purchasing equipment that is critical to the success of your business that costs you tens, if not over a hundred thousand dollars, but you’re not allowed to make repairs on the equipment yourself. That is the reality that farmers in North Carolina and...
Alamance County mom Tameka Harvey filed to run for school board on Friday. Harvey has children enrolled in schools that were impacted by the mold outbreak that delayed the start of the school year by two weeks this year. She says the mold crisis was a key...
