Three years after the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Joe Biden shared his thoughts on the effort to minimize the events of that day — and on the growing threat posed by political violence in the United States. View this post on Instagram...
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...
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas doctors don't have to provide emergency abortions. Wondering if that can happen in NC? Our correspondent Bonnie Fuller breaks down how reproductive rights could get even more dicey because of the precedent set in...
With Donald Trump on the verge of locking down the Republican nomination, his own former staffers are speaking out against the threat he poses to American democracy. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardinal & Pine...
Several voting rights groups and voters of color have sued North Carolina Republicans over their new election maps, which all but ensure Republicans stay in power no matter what voters want. This process is called gerrymandering. But what IS gerrymandering? If you...
Spindale and Rutherfordton, sister towns in rural Western North Carolina, received a joint $20 million RAISE grant in 2022 to transform the congested, crumbling, dangerous thoroughfare between them into a pedestrian friendly “complete street.”
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 […]