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NC’s Country Doctor Museum: Preserving the legacy of rural health care

July 16, 2024

Bloodsucking leeches, coffin-shaped tablets and a mechanical “lung” are among the more than 5,000 items on display at The Country Doctor Museum in Nash County.

NC’s Country Doctor Museum: Preserving the legacy of rural health care

Op-Ed: On Parkland shooting anniversary, teens like me won’t forget the politicians who stopped gun reform

February 15, 2024

Six years ago this week, a gunman killed 17 students and staff in a Florida high school. A NC teen writes on what it’s like growing up in the shadow of that.

Op-Ed: On Parkland shooting anniversary, teens like me won’t forget the politicians who stopped gun reform

A Rural Calling: Bringing Together Different Worlds to Better a Community

June 14, 2023

Yona Wade says “I create what I need” and what he needs and wants are better educational opportunities for the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Western North Carolina.

A Rural Calling: Bringing Together Different Worlds to Better a Community

VIDEO: A Teacher Reacts to Mark Robinson’s Idea Remove Science From Grades K-5

February 8, 2024

In his 2022 memoir, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wrote that if he was in charge of education policy in North Carolina, students wouldn’t learn science or social studies until after the fifth grade. Teachers in these grades would focus only on reading, writing, and math, he wrote, to improve the state’s low testing scores in…

VIDEO: A Teacher Reacts to Mark Robinson’s Idea Remove Science From Grades K-5

Op-ed: Addressing North Carolina’s childcare crisis

February 12, 2024

Last year, my campaign launched the “Task Force on Families,” a dedicated effort to make North Carolina a better place to live, work, and raise a family. A key part of that is tackling the childcare crisis facing North Carolina. This initiative brings together a diverse group, including rural and urban healthcare providers, legislators, parents,…

Op-ed: Addressing North Carolina’s childcare crisis

Opinion: Republicans want to repeal the modern family

August 14, 2024

From Project 2025 and JD Vance all the way down to state lawmakers, a growing number of far-right Republicans are waging war on modern families. Whether it’s attacking child care programs, encouraging women to stay in abusive marriages, or making it harder for same-sex couples to adopt, the modern right is fighting to repeal the…

Opinion: Republicans want to repeal the modern family

NC Republicans sue elections officials for allowing UNC’s digital ID in voting

September 13, 2024

This lawsuit, one of at least four that state and National Republicans have filed in recent weeks, seeks to block the board’s decision to allow students and employees from the University of North Carolina to use digital versions of their UNC IDs as a voter ID.

NC Republicans sue elections officials for allowing UNC’s digital ID in voting

North Carolina Dems rally behind Kamala Harris’ VP pick, Tim Walz

August 6, 2024

“Governors like him know what it takes to get the job done, and he will be an outstanding vice president, doubling down on his work to support middle class families, protect reproductive freedom, and safeguard our democracy,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said.

North Carolina Dems rally behind Kamala Harris’ VP pick, Tim Walz

Books are worthy of discussion, not banning

October 12, 2023

“Banning books will not protect our children, but teaching them how to read and think critically will,” North Carolina teacher Tammy Raynor Petrosillo writes in an op-ed.

Books are worthy of discussion, not banning

Inside the secretive deal for a $10 billion Amazon data center in rural NC

August 6, 2026

Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a data center project in NC that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.

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