State Assembly
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How the fight to fund NC’s public schools became the 30-year Leandro struggle
In 1994, low-income school districts sued the NC legislature over paltry funding. The saga known as the Leandro case became a snarl of court rulings and legislative obstruction that is still unresolved.
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NC Democratic primary challenger has history of racist remarks, lawmaker says
Michael Wray, a former 10-term state Representative running for his old seat in 2026, faces claims that he once told a fellow lawmaker to “watch out for the Blacks.”
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Stein reverses Medicaid cuts, but warns of ‘devastating’ consequences if Republicans fail to fund the program
The governor cited court rulings that blocked some of the cuts, but said the state’s Medicaid fund would still run out of money in the spring if Republicans failed to resolve their 6-month dispute over funding it.
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NC Republicans face criticism from the right as they slap each other over a stalled budget
Republicans control both chambers of the NC legislature, but have failed to pass a budget 6 months after it was due. Even conservatives are losing their patience. As a winter storm shut down schools across the Triangle this week, Republican leaders in the General Assembly were still bickering over the state budget that was due…
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A North Carolina hospital was slated to open in 2025. Mired in bureaucracy, it’s still a dirt field.
Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.
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Federal judges uphold several North Carolina US House districts drawn by Republicans
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.
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Josh Stein demanded NC Republicans fund Medicaid. You can’t make us, they said.
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.
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Medicaid funding shortfall shutters statewide program helping moms and babies
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.
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NC House votes to block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood
North Carolina Republicans approved a ‘bait and switch’ bill that would block Medicaid patients from using their insurance at Planned Parenthood clinics.
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Advocates flood NC legislature as Medicaid cuts squeeze providers
Health care experts and advocates for the poor converge on the NC legislature, calling on them to break their Medicaid stalemate.
