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.
New Rural Project helped elect several candidates in 2023 by listening to rural voters who sat out in 2020.
A far-reaching conversation on the struggles of rural North Carolina, education, and confronting the holidays after a profound loss.
Republicans have said that if they win the governor’s race and expand their control in the legislature in 2024, a full ban is on the table.
Urban gun violence tends to get the headlines. But NC has a major gun problem lurking in its rural areas.
These grants will go towards creating jobs in six counties across the state of North Carolina: Chatham County, Pitt County, Wayne County, Halifax County, Stanly County, and Nash County.
A new analysis found that there were 4,230 abortions provided in North Carolina in June, and only 2,920 in July—a decrease of more than 30%—after Republicans’ 12-week abortion ban went into effect.
Fifty years ago today, on July 23, 1973, Rufus Edmisten became the first person in US history to deliver a subpoena against a sitting president.
The bill also makes it more difficult to access care, and implements hugely restrictive regulations on abortion clinics, which could force many of them to close their doors.
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