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Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Kerri Wilson and Zoe Clarke are nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Wilson works in the cardiology wing, Clarke in the intensive care unit. Both of them spoke to Cardinal & Pine’s Michael McElroy recently for our ongoing Bad Medicine…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. “3 things happening” is Cardinal & Pine’s weekly look at the storylines and events worth your time.  It’s a short week. But that doesn’t mean North Carolina isn’t busy.  This week, a popular hiking and music festival returns to Highlands…

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…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend     Hey, it’s Billy. Today’s top story is Charlotte.  The Queen City is in an uproar after a weekend of federal immigration operations. Border Patrol and ICE agents swept up 130 people, they said, including a church volunteer and street vendors.  Cardinal…

Plus: A presidential hopeful in western NC Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Below, we have one incredible phone call from the GOAT, a surfside view at Carolina Beach, and signs of a political sea change in western NC. But first:  In 2024, Carolina Beach—one of North Carolina’s most popular vacation spots—was flooded by…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend     Hey, it’s Billy. It’s appropriate that “Giving Tuesday” falls a day after most of the “Black Friday” and holiday shopping deals ship out.  The latter is a time of crass commercialism. The former is the opposite.  It’s about finding a cause…

Plus: 3 things happening in NC this week Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Really important news for anyone who plans on voting—which, I assume, is every one of us. North Carolina Democrats have reached a settlement with Republicans over the fate of about 73,000 voters that the GOP wanted to boot off the…