Politics
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Three years after Jan. 6, Trump’s authoritarianism is on full display
Saturday marks three years since the Capitol insurrection, and Donald Trump has only gotten more extreme as he closes in on the 2024 Republican nomination.
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Insulin prices plunge for North Carolinians due to Biden’s American Rescue Plan
Eli Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk’s price cuts are expected to benefit many North Carolinians who need insulin to survive. The companies first announced the moves last year, as a response to an American Rescue Plan provision that threatened to penalize them if they kept prices high.
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Biden pardons thousands of Americans convicted of marijuana possession
The president’s actions will not release any federal prisoners, but will lift barriers to housing, employment, and educational opportunities for those convicted of the offenses.
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North Carolina approves more student and employee IDs you can use to vote
he North Carolina Board of Elections has now listed 120 student and employee photo IDs that can be used to vote in the 2024 elections.
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Beyond the grade: How one ‘failing’ NC school defines success
NC’s controversial school report card system has given Lingerfeldt Elementary in Gastonia, NC, failing grades. But the local school’s leadership isn’t buying it.
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VIDEO: Mark Robinson’s ideas for education would ‘gut the soul of a classroom’
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the likely GOP nominee for governor in 2024, wrote that schools should eliminate science and social studies through the 5th grade.
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VIDEO: Lawsuit says Republicans drew discriminatory election maps
There are now three lawsuits against the new congressional election maps drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature. Each says that they drew them to intentionally dilute the voting power of Black North Carolinians.
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Leo Williams: How a ‘country boy’ from eastern NC came to lead one of NC’s fastest-growing cities
Leo Williams is an up-and-coming political leader with a deep background in education. We talked to him about being the mayor of his adopted city, and the pressures of leading in tumultuous times.
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NC farmers can’t repair their own equipment. It affects us all.
Imagine purchasing equipment that is critical to the success of your business that costs you tens, if not over a hundred thousand dollars, but you’re not allowed to make repairs on the equipment yourself. That is the reality that farmers in North Carolina and across the country face. Patrick Brown, a fourth-generation farmer in Warren…
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Op-ed: Denied the pursuit of happiness: being transgender in 2023
It’s the end of 2023, and it’s time for that common refrain again: “What’s your resolution for the new year?” For some, it’s weight loss, others a new job, even more for love, money, moving — we’ve all heard them said throughout our lives. Mine is a bit more straightforward this year: Not to be…
