During his State of the Union speech on Thursday, President Joe Biden delivered a fiery speech in defense of freedom and democracy and laid out his vision for America’s future. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardinal & Pine...
If Jeff Jackson wins the Democratic Party’s primary for North Carolina Attorney General, he could potentially face Dan Bishop, a fellow member of Congress in the general election. Jackson says Bishop will seek to further restrict abortion rights in North Carolina....
North Carolina faces an ongoing teacher shortage crisis. Last fall, the state reported more than 3,000 teacher vacancies, and some educators are leaving the profession altogether. Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democratic candidate for governor, says the state is...
The Republican-controlled General Assembly passed its 12-week abortion ban over the objections of nearly every medical association and a majority of North Carolinians, and they did it at night and with little chance for debate. They passed new election maps, which...
Maysville, a town of 1,000 people about 20 minutes from Jacksonville, is known for its close-knit community and ability to get things done. Its town leaders drew praise for their response to both PFAS-contaminated water in 2019 and Hurricane Florence the year...
WATCH: If poor and working-class people voted more often, politics would change for the better. That was the message Monday from civil rights leader William Barber II and the Poor People's Campaign, a national economic justice group originally led by Martin Luther...
CJ Brinson is a Guilford County pastor, and believes that many in the “pro-life” movement are too narrowly focused on the issue of abortion and fail to support “policies that make life easier for those outside of the womb.” Brinson is speaking out in support for...
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...
The NC Secretary of State's office is, for now, a low-visibility, bookkeeping job. But Cardinal & Pine Senior Editor Billy Ball says we should all be concerned if Republicans win it and start changing the job description.
Recent legislation in North Carolina opened up the state for huge out-of-state spending on campaigns. A lawmaker sounds the alarm on NC campaign finance. Sen. Mary Wills Bode, a Democrat representing NC’s Granville and Wake counties, sounded the alarm on a recent episode of PBS NC’s “State Lines” about NC campaign finance reform, after recent […]
Pastor James Gailliard is the senior pastor at Word Tabernacle Church in Rocky Mount and a former state legislator. On Thursday, he participated in a Biden campaign event with other faith leaders, where he highlighted the stakes of this year’s presidential election and made the case for voting for Democrats. “The reason we have to […]
Doctors are more likely to ignore the concerns of Black pregnant women and dismiss their symptoms, several studies show. Which is exactly what happened with Jessica Deas with two of her three pregnancies. With her third child, she decided to give birth at home with a midwife instead. She spoke with Cardinal & Pine about […]