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Plus: What Roy Cooper, Anita Earls told us Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Gun violence is not the sort of thing anyone talks about dispassionately.  People who feel something about gun laws usually feel that way strongly.  North Carolina’s state legislature is spurring a lot of that right now. Republican lawmakers are hoping…

Plus: This weekend’s fall shenanigans Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Today in the Cardinal & Pine newsletter, we’ll take you to the Western NC State Fair and check out a stunning story about private firms buying up mobile home parks in NC, but first: Did you know North Carolina politicians played a huge…

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: NC singer on finding joy in hard times. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Below, we have a big story unfolding in NC’s US Senate race, as well as your weekly guide to getting involved in NC, but first: Artificial intelligence (AI) surely has the potential to do some good, but it also…

Plus: About Virginia Foxx’s letter to a 10-year-old Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. It is a curious thing that, in America, we talk about “separation of church and state” as a founding idea. But ideas aren’t the same thing as actual laws and policies, and in truth, many of our laws are closely…

Plus: Checking in from the Crystal Coast Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. We begin today with the story of Ciji Graham. The 34-year-old Greensboro police officer died of heart failure in 2023, waiting on an abortion that might have saved her life. As ProPublica recently reported, Graham and her physicians knew she was…

Share with a friend This afternoon, something big happened in Washington, DC, that we’ll be talking about for a long time.  Republicans in Congress convinced the final few holdouts in their party to vote for President Donald Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill.” It’s a massive tax break and spending cut bill that will, according to…

Plus: The Canes represent NC tonight Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. In this newsletter, we try not to tell you things you already know. For instance, you all know your energy bills are soaring. Mine is starting to feel like a ransom note that comes in the mail every month. Today, Cardinal &…