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.
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 […]
In an election year where abortion is set to loom large, Down Home NC is organizing and knocking on doors in rural North Carolina with in-depth conversations focused on issues rather than candidates.
Nearly 30 years since Elaine Marshall became the first woman elected to a statewide executive office in NC, she’s running for reelection on a promise to boost rural economic growth and help small businesses get off the ground. NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall grew up on a farm, so she lights up when she […]
Launched by the Justice Department in 2021 in response to the wave of harassment of election officials that followed the 2020 election, the Election Threats Task Force works closely with local law enforcement and U.S. attorney’s offices around the country to investigate threats.