Why don't undocumented people just become ... documented? Why do people immigrate illegally? In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on America's broken immigration system, and ICE and Border Patrol's brutal policing of it.
NC Christmas tree farms lost thousands of trees when Helene rolled through western NC in 2024. But wherever you look in 2025, those tree farms say they're bouncing back.
Let's demystify the boogeyman—the single payer option for healthcare and universal healthcare. This is what keeps some conservatives up at night.
Every Wednesday, NC journalist Billy Ball unpacks the most important stories in NC and corrects the bad information.
In the latest "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at what we can do to combat gerrymandering in NC and across the US.
In a new "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at PFAS—aka "forever chemicals—their spread across North Carolina, and their connection to the 2026 US Senate race.
In North Carolina, weed’s illegal, gerrymandering’s not — and politicians are rigging the rules to stay in power. We're going to break it down it every week at "Billy Ball Explains NC."
In the latest "Billy Ball Explains North Carolina," Senior Editor Billy Ball breaks down Trump's huge tax bill in just a couple minutes.
In the latest edition of Billy Ball Explains North Carolina, we take a look at why Sen. Thom Tillis is not running for reelection.
Most North Carolinians support legalizing marijuana. So what gives? In a new "Billy Ball Explains NC," our senior editor takes a look at the issue, as well as Gov. Josh Stein's new cannabis task force.
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