In North Carolina, clean energy investments are crucial, as the state faces all of the most dire consequences of climate change: flooding, drought, extreme heat, and more.
Cardinal & Pine's Michael McElroy explains why the end of the Republican supermajority in the NC General Assembly isn't just a big deal for political insiders. It could have a big impact on your life.
Research from the Urban Institute and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project found that hospital market concentration, as well as private equity’s expanding role in billing, tracking, and collecting payments for health care, is exacerbating the country’s medical debt problem.
Bishop has ties to groups and individuals who’ve spread racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories; denounced the separation of church and state; gotten into online arguments with the Auschwitz Memorial; and tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
As the state continues to deal with the damage left by Hurricane Helene, several North Carolina Republicans are justifiably calling for more federal aid, but some of them previously voted against funding for FEMA and other relief bills following natural disasters.
These actions include issuing advisories to prevent debt collectors from targeting families with illegal medical debt collection tactics and cracking down on certain collectors. The new efforts could have a major impact in North Carolina, where as many as three million people are affected by medical debt.
Democrats — fueled by women voters — say outrage about abortion restrictions could help them break a Republican supermajority.
The CNN report on Thursday unearthed past posts it said Robinson left on a porn site’s message boards in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI;" said he enjoyed transgender pornography; said in 2012 he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama; and slammed the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot.”
Davis says he’s focused on improving the lives of local farmers and protecting veterans benefits, all while embracing “eastern North Carolina values.”
This lawsuit, one of at least four that state and National Republicans have filed in recent weeks, seeks to block the board’s decision to allow students and employees from the University of North Carolina to use digital versions of their UNC IDs as a voter ID.
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