Cardinal and Pine

It ditches booze and clubbing for coffee and culture. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. If you read this newsletter every day, you know that we love to celebrate the cool stuff in North Carolina. Here’s one example: In the 1960s, the idea of combining dinner and a theater experience was new. Enter the Barn…

Plus: Name this historic eastern NC home. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Even Cardinal & Pine gets a flat tire sometimes.  Today’s email is coming to you late because this newsletter’s fearless writer was temporarily stranded near Williamston. 😂 But we’re still coming at you, NC. As they say, not today, Satan!  Let’s…

Plus: What to know about federal vaccine changes. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. By the time, you get this email, March Madness will be well underway.  That said, we’ve published a new guide to the North Carolina teams that made the Big Dance on the men’s and women’s sides—from first-time Cinderellas (what’s up…

An unbelievable story in western NC Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Never, ever, ever does the United States give land back to Native Americans. Except for a few extraordinary instances. North Carolina had one of those remarkable moments recently. This week, I took a few minutes to go deep on a partnership between…

Plus: NC’s Civil War history by lantern light. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. If you’ve been driving on one of a few major highways in North Carolina, you might have noticed a new billboard campaign.  This month, the “ICE Costs Us” campaign launched in more than 200 places, including at least nine locations…

Plus: Storms leave thousands without power. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. We begin this week with an important story.  When Helene cut a path through western NC, folks in North Carolina’s forestry offices warned that the downed timber would be a problem.  In terms of wildfires, fallen trees are fuel. And wildfires are…

Plus: The March Madness begins. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. It’s officially that time of year. College basketball is about to take over our lives for several weeks.  Fittingly, Good News Friday leads with the march madness, and a new Cinderella out of North Carolina.  In their first year of eligibility for the NCAA…

Plus: The woman who broke “Jim Crow” in NC is back. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Woah! Cardinal & Pine got a glam-up.  You are looking at the redesigned C&P newsletter. It may feel bright and shiny, but it’s the same hard-working, feisty email you read every day.  Now’s as good a time…

Plus: A NC basketball product makes history. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. An observation:  In my 20 or so years covering politics, I’ve heard a lot of people in “the business” talk about the power of women’s voting. “How do you get the women’s vote?” they ask. But too often, they seem to…

Plus: 3 events happening this week in NC Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Wherever federal immigration agents have gone, lawsuits have followed. Reuters reported last month that, since October, hundreds of judges have ruled more than 4,400 times that ICE and Border Patrol arrested people illegally. Cardinal & Pine’s Jessica F. Simmons has…