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Plus: Do your taxes for free in NC. Share with a friend     Hey, it’s Billy. Something you might not know about me:  For years, I was an education reporter. That means I specialized in writing about the goings-on at North Carolina’s schools, K-12 policy, and the state’s chronic education funding problems.  I flexed…

Plus: Saving Charlotte’s original Black social club Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. I’ll be honest: Winter is not my thing. There was a moment two weeks ago—sometime in between the second or the third day that my car was stuck in ice on my driveway—that I yelled curse words at winter. Like, the…

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: This could change politics in NC. Share with a friend Hey, it’s Billy. Since 2010, politics in America has changed.  The US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowed corporations and outside groups to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections.  It has increasingly made non-local politics into a game played only by the…