North Carolina expanded Medicaid last year in part because President Biden’s 2021 American Rescue Plan offered a financial incentive that will have equally huge effects on rural healthcare services.
The state’s 2024 primary election is on March 5, but there are several deadlines before then you’ll need to be aware of to make sure your vote is counted.
Nearly all of the state’s Congressional Republicans voted against certifying the 2020 election and helped spread the lies that fueled a violent attack on the Capitol. Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes. But three years...
Eli Lilly, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk’s price cuts are expected to benefit many North Carolinians who need insulin to survive. The companies first announced the moves last year, as a response to an American Rescue Plan provision that threatened to penalize them if they kept prices high.
There are now three lawsuits against the new congressional election maps drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature. Each says that they drew them to intentionally dilute the voting power of Black North Carolinians.
The "Beyond Executions" event this year commemorated the lives of 43 people executed in NC. The last person executed in NC was Samuel Flippen in August 2006.
Leo Williams is an up-and-coming political leader with a deep background in education. We talked to him about being the mayor of his adopted city, and the pressures of leading in tumultuous times.
The Republican-controlled legislature helped wealthy families pay for private school, offered teacher raises that lag behind inflation, and continued to ignore court-orders to adequately fund public schools.
Voting for the first time can be nerve-wracking, especially with the stakes as high as they are in this year’s election. Here’s what you need to know before you go to the polls.
“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.
On June 25th, the US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a “public health crisis” in America. This declaration shed light on the urgent need for collective action to address the alarming rates of gun-related incidents impacting communities nationwide. North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis stated that he introduced the Protecting the Right to Keep […]
The Fall 2023 municipal election was a pretty good one for women candidates in my county, which is significant in a state given a grade of “D” on the 2023 Gender Parity Index. The index, which is compiled annually by RepresentWomen, measures the share of women holding elective office at all levels. While we didn’t […]