Medicaid expansion was launched on Dec. 1st and it’s already having a big impact on North Carolina, the state's top health official told us. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kody Kinsley told Cardinal & Pine that his office automatically enrolled 273,000...
Access to high quality public education is a cornerstone of our democracy. Unfortunately, North Carolina politicians are attacking public education by gutting funding for schools and sowing distrust in teachers and administrators. This two-pronged assault on public...
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas doctors don't have to provide emergency abortions. Wondering if that can happen in NC? Our correspondent Bonnie Fuller breaks down how reproductive rights could get even more dicey because of the precedent set in...
On the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, here’s a look at all the times North Carolina’s lawmakers tried to disrupt abortion care.
With Donald Trump on the verge of locking down the Republican nomination, his own former staffers are speaking out against the threat he poses to American democracy. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardinal & Pine...
WATCH: We don't always hear success stories out of eastern NC, but here's a big one. We went inside Durham Mayor Leo Williams' rise, from Halifax County "country-boy" to leader of one of NC's fastest-growing cities. For the full story, here. View this post...
President Joe Biden on Thursday visited Raleigh to announce an $82 million dollar investment in high-speed internet, which will help expand the critical technology to an additional 16,000 households in North Carolina through funding provided by the American Rescue...
Earls, the only Black woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court, was being investigated by the state judicial watchdog for criticizing the court’s lack of diversity. North Carolina’s judicial ethics commission dismissed its investigation into anonymous complaints...
The change could potentially eliminate billions of dollars in fee revenue for the nation’s biggest banks, which were gearing up for a battle even before Wednesday's announcement. Exactly how much revenue depends on which version of the new regulation is adopted.
It’s only been a month and a half since Medicaid expansion launched in North Carolina, but it’s already been life changing for many residents. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services automatically enrolled nearly 273,000 people into the program...
