Opinion: Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, I am stronger and angrier
If they were going to ban abortion, who knew what else they were going to start banning?
Jun
2024
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Voter Stories
Jun
2024
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Op-Ed: I’ve been a teacher for 30 years. Michele Morrow would ruin NC public schools.
A veteran North Carolina teacher and activist on why he believes the Republican candidate for the state's top education job is unfit and dangerous.
May
2024
23
Opinion: Why North Carolina doctors are afraid of another Trump term
As a health care provider, I vividly remember what it was like when Donald Trump was president. He worked to dismantle the progress we had made in eliminating discrimination based on preexisting conditions, tried to take away preventive care coverage like lifesaving mammograms and colonoscopies, and railed against health care coverage for millions of Americans.
May
2024
22
Opinion: Why Mo Green is the education leader I’m choosing for my kids and my state
In 2022, as a candidate endorsed by extremist group Moms for Liberty, she ran for a seat on the Wake County School Board and lost. In her current race, she’s again endorsed by Moms for Liberty, and proposes eliminating the State Board of Education and forcing children with special needs into separate classrooms where they’ll “just focus on learning life skills.”
May
2024
15
Opinion: Mark Robinson’s horrific remarks about women contradict the Christian faith
We have knocked down so many closed doors and created greater opportunities for others, yet in the same breath, men like Robinson seek to take us backwards.
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OPINION: NC superintendent candidate Michele Morrow called for military coup to keep Trump in power in unearthed January 6 video
| August 14, 2024
Opinion: As a rural Ohioan, I see J.D. Vance for who he is
| August 9, 2024
Vance’s career has been built on a phony image of him as a product of and de facto spokesperson for poor, rural Appalachians, despite the fact that he was raised in a middle-class family in Middletown, Ohio – a city of about 50,000 people situated between Cincinnati and Dayton.
Opinion: I’m from Appalachia. J.D. Vance got rich lying about us.
| July 29, 2024
Conveniently, Vance blames my people for their struggles and paints them as lazy while blaming his circumstances on his mother and her battle with addiction. He seems to believe that all his traumas should be attributed to a culture that is not even his.
Op-Ed: Gun violence is a public health crisis in North Carolina
| July 18, 2024
2024 ELECTIONS | EXTREMISM | NC POLITICS | NORTH CAROLINA LEADERS | OPINION | SAFETY | Voter Stories
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 […]
Opinion: The future of North Carolina will be decided in November. Our choices could not be more different
| June 25, 2024
Unfortunately, the only blame for this lies squarely on the Republican Party stoking those fears and fanning the metaphorical flames of discontent across North Carolina. Conversations that could have once found common ground are more commonly filled with accusations and screaming matches, and somehow, this is supposed to be acceptable to the folks who live here.