This week’s edition of Good News Friday includes a huge boost for recreation on eastern NC trails, some swell news for job-hunters in the Triangle, and one Cary teen’s 100% perfect SAT score.
Surviving in America means enduring a chaotic world filled with soaring housing and health care costs, a tanking educational system, devastating gun violence, and surging racism. From writers to athletes, a shared desire to honor family history and reclaim agency is guiding this dual-citizenship movement.
Cardinal & Pine’s “3 things” is a weekly look at the news, events, and stories that are driving conversation around North Carolina. This week, a big ruling on hemp and police searches, a comic-con fantasyland in Raleigh, and the "Superman" effect on dog adoptions.
Opinion: The broken ‘American Dream’ shines a light on a new path to Mexico
by Araceli Cruz
| July 24, 2025