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North Carolina DJ Darryl Krush helps turn voting into a party
DJs at the Polls, a non-partisan get-out-the-vote group, promises to keep Election Day upbeat and harmonious, providing 3,500 DJs to play family friendly music at more than 7,000 polling sites in battleground states, including North Carolina.
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Local DJs to provide the soundtrack at North Carolina polls Nov. 5
At polling sites in cities throughout North Carolina on Election Day, Nov. 5, voters may find themselves dancing in line, with local DJs providing the beat.
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Opinion: How Trump exploited a willing media to convince Americans that nothing matters
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.
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Research suggests medical debt is made worse by hospital consolidation
Research from the Urban Institute and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project found that hospital market concentration, as well as private equity’s expanding role in billing, tracking, and collecting payments for health care, is exacerbating the country’s medical debt problem.
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Opinion: Despite his silence, Donald Trump’s health care plan is bad medicine for Americans, especially women
“Donald Trump’s actions and intentions would effectively put politicians in the exam room with doctors and our patients,” Dr. Amelia Sutton, a maternal-fetal medicine physician in Charlotte, writes in an op-ed.
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Abortion bans are top of mind for young women in North Carolina as they consider Harris or Trump
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the tensions over abortion in North Carolina have only intensified, setting up the presidential election as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.
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North Carolina is finally confronting the ‘horror stories’ of its medical debt crisis
The state has among the worst rates of medical debt in the country, but new programs introduced by Roy Cooper and Vice President Kamala Harris could bring relief to millions of low- and middle-income North Carolinians.
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Trump’s former chief of staff says the former president praised Hitler and would rule like a ‘fascist’
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.
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Opinion: Be a child care voter this year
Moms know that child care is a life-shaping issue for their own families. Many are at risk of being forced onto public assistance if they can’t find the affordable care that makes it possible for them to stay in the workforce. But too many moms don’t know which candidates support the solutions they need.
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Opinion: Our Economy and Our Planet are on the Line
As votes are cast across North Carolina, the future of American energy is on the ballot in the 2024 Presidential election, and the consequences matter to our pocketbooks, to our business, and to our planet. The days where climate change was some abstract concept divorced from our daily lives are over. We feel it…
