Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.
NC Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat, spoke with Cardinal & Pine last month as lawmakers had a chance to return to session and do something about Medicaid funding.
Federal judges will allow some of North Carolina state lawmakers' gerrymandered US House districts to go on, but this year's Trump-endorsed redrawing of a Black voting district is still up in the air.
With NC Republicans stalled on a budget deal, an ankle-monitoring program designed to stop domestic violence expires.
Republican leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly refused Gov. Josh Stein’s recent order demanding they hold a special session to address the state’s urgent Medicaid shortfall.
The top NC Democrat in the state House of Representatives had some sharp words to say about Republicans' new gerrymander.
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.
The 18-minute speech condemning gerrymandering that NC Republicans didn't want you to hear.
North Carolina Republicans approved a ‘bait and switch’ bill that would block Medicaid patients from using their insurance at Planned Parenthood clinics.
Health care experts and advocates for the poor converge on the NC legislature, calling on them to break their Medicaid stalemate.
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