Op-Ed: Let’s Build Up Rural Broadband Like NC Once Built Its Highways
This Charlotte attorney and NC House candidate wants to see more households connected to the Internet.
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Nursing Home Cases Up Nearly 80% as COVID-19 Surged This Summer
While the GOP pushed states to reopen this summer, the coronavirus found its way into nursing homes in the South and West—with dire consequences.
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Fire Tornadoes and Inland Hurricanes: Extreme Weather Linked to Pollution Is on the Rise
The arctic is burning, much of Iowa was wiped out by powerful wind storms, and California witnessed wildfires, fire tornadoes, and record-setting heat over the weekend.
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Duke Study Author: Masks Aren’t Going Anywhere, With or Without a Vaccine
Researcher's study delved into effectiveness of various face masks, found novel coronavirus too unpredictable to say when masks won’t be necessary.
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UNC-Chapel Hill Cancels In-Person Classes. Staff and Faculty Fume It Didn’t Come Sooner.
After coronavirus clusters emerged on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus, officials to move all classes online and send 4,000 undergraduates home.
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No Pumpkin Spice Hush Puppies This Year: 3 Things Besides Coronavirus that Cancelled the State Fair
North Carolinians face a fall without the annual state fair for the first time since World War II.
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Learning Pods Could Throw Fuel on to the Fire Of Inequality in NC
These informal education groups might be the answer for some to this year’s school dilemma but at what price?
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2020
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NC Teacher: State’s Schools Are Ignored While Big Business Gets COVID-19 Hand-Outs
Public schools in NC don’t have what they need to reopen and teach kids this fall while corporations pull in billions in aid.
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Coronavirus May Have Killed a North Carolina Dog
A NC dog who tested positive for COVID-19 died from its illness.
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2020
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Disillusioned NC Republicans Call for a Future Without Trump
Longtime Tar Heel Republicans, and several nationally-prominent conservatives, face off against the RNC with their own anti-Trump convention.
Searching for Indigo De Souza, One of North Carolina’s Most Hyped New Musicians in Years
| September 29, 2021
Asheville’s Indigo De Souza is a rising singer-songwriter with a wanderer’s taste for genre. She talked to Cardinal & Pine about her ascension as a national artist.
The Moment I Realized NC Public Schools Are Not Treated Equally
| September 28, 2021
How a move to a specialty school in Durham convinced an Edgecombe County teen that North Carolina schools are funded unfairly.
Wilmington is the Backdrop for the Black Elite on Fox Drama ‘Our Kind of People’
| September 24, 2021
Iconic landmarks help Wilmington, North Carolina stand in for Martha’s Vineyard in Fox's new soapy, sexy drama.
‘More Rights for the Employer’: Why Workers Have it So Bad in North Carolina
| September 24, 2021
North Carolina’s lack of worker protections makes it the worst place in the country to work, especially for Black women, a recent analysis found.
I Said They’d Have to Vaccinate Me at Gunpoint. Then I Contracted Delta.
| September 23, 2021
An estimated 11% of Mecklenburg County adults are vaccine hesitant. Micah McClain was among them until contracting COVID. He has a message for others.
NC’s Poet Laureate Makes Art From Difficult Times
| September 22, 2021
How turbulent times and the racial justice movement have informed one of North Carolina's most decorated poets, Jaki Shelton Green.