Best Ana Carolina Podcasts (2024)

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Solving the TED Puzzle: Management of Thyroid Eye Disease with Drs. Lisa Nijm and Ana Carolina Victoria 15:40

17h ago15:40

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss frequently asked questions about the management of thyroid eye disease (TED). https://healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240918/2-solving-the-ted-puzzle-management-of-thyroid-eye-disease/overview

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AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on why more workers are joining unions even in right-to-work states 14:29

14h ago14:29

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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler (Photo: AFL-CIO) North Carolina is and will, for the foreseeable future, remain a so-called “right-to-work” state in which laws make it extremely tough build workplace unions. Despite this enormous barrier, however, there’s growing evidence that interest in and support for organized labor in our state is enjoying a bit …

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Scott Farmer of the NC Housing Finance Agency on addressing our affordable housing shortage 13:23

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Congressman Jeff Jackson discusses his campaign to be North Carolina’s next attorney general 11:54

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Case Studies on Patient-Centered Management of GA With Drs. Steven Ferrucci and Nathan Steinle 15:28

16h ago15:28

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss case studies focused on patient‐centered care of patients with GA.

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Patient‐Centered GA Care: An Eye for Treatment With Drs. Steven Ferrucci and Dilsher Dhoot 16:24

16h ago16:24

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss patient‐centered GA care with a focus on approved therapies for disease management.

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Patient‐Centered GA Care: An Eye for Monitoring With Drs. Steven Ferrucci and Carolyn Majcher 15:16

16h ago15:16

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss patient‐centered GA care with a focus on disease monitoring.

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The Retina Radar With Dr. Arshad Khanani: GA Management in 2024 With Dr. Eleonora Lad 26:53

16h ago26:53

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss how new and emerging therapies for geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can fit into the treatment paradigm to optimize its management. https://healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240910/6-the-retina-radar-with-dr-arshad-khanani-ga-management-in-2024-with-d…

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Patient‐Centered GA Care: An Eye for Diagnosis With Drs. Steven Ferrucci and Mark Dunbar 20:57

16h ago20:57

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss patient‐centered GA care with a focus on diagnosis.

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The Retina Radar With Dr. Arshad Khanani: DR Management in 2024 With Dr. Carl Regillo 32:20

17h ago32:20

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss current and emerging treatment options that may improve outcomes for patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR). https://healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240910/5-the-retina-radar-with-dr-arshad-khanani-dr-management-in-2024-with-dr-carl-regillo

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Solving the TED Puzzle: Burden, Course, and Diagnosis with Drs. Ana Carolina Victoria and Lisa Nijm 11:10

17h ago11:10

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss frequently asked questions about thyroid eye disease (TED), its burden, disease course, and methods for diagnosis. https://healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240918/1-solving-the-ted-puzzle-burden-course-and-diagnosis

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North Carolina Black Alliance Deputy Director Marcus Bass on promoting systemic policy change 12:53

8d ago12:53

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Marcus Bass, NC Black Alliance Election Day 2024 is now just a little over six weeks away and not surprisingly, there’s been a spike of late in the activity of nonprofits that are seeking to help potential voters get schooled on the issues and ready to cast informed ballots. And one of those groups is the North Carolina Black Alliance. For several …

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Josh Cowen on “How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers” 21:18

8d ago21:18

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Courtesy photo of Josh Cowen and his book THE PRIVATEERS: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers One of the most significant developments in the world of K-12 education in recent decades has been the rise of the so-called “school choice” movement, and in particular, the action taken by several states, including North Caroli…

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WCU Prof. Chris Cooper on where things stand in several key races ahead of the November election 12:49

15d ago12:49

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Prof. Chris Cooper of Western Carolina University The long-awaited presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump finally took place this past week, and according to most independent analysts, the evening went very well for Harris. While she projected an image of calmness and confidence, Trump seemed ratt…

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NC Justice Center policy analyst Kris Nordstrom on the expansion of private school vouchers 14:19

15d ago14:19

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Kris Nordstrom The North Carolina General Assembly returned to Raleigh last week to approve a Republican plan to dramatically expand the state’s controversial private school voucher program. The plan advanced despite strong opposition from the Governor, Democratic lawmakers and an array of advocates for public schools. So what exactly will the plan…

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Reporter Lisa Sorg on a massive liquefied natural gas plant under construction in Person County 12:17

15d ago12:17

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Investigative reporter Lisa Sorg The global imperative of dramatically reducing fossil fuel consumption is as urgent as ever, but that isn’t preventing private and public plans to build new fossil fuel infrastructure. See for example, a massive new facility under construction in Person County. As Inside Climate News reporter Lisa Sorg reported this…

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Rep. Julie von Haefen on crisis pregnancy centers and public education funding 11:17

22d ago11:17

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Rep. Julie von Haefen - Photo: ncleg.gov For several years now, the Republican leadership of the North Carolina legislature has appropriated millions of dollars to the state’s network of so-called crisis pregnancy centers. The centers give the impression that they provide healthcare services, but critics argue that they do no such thing. Recently, …

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NC Justice Center’s Ana Pardo on how workers are faring and how lawmakers could lift the economy 13:42

22d ago13:42

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Ana Pardo (Courtesy photo) On the whole, the U.S. economy has been faring well in recent years – especially when compared to the dark days of the pandemic. That said, the situation average workers find themselves in varies widely from state to state and one where things remain mired well below average is North Carolina. Indeed, a recent report by t…

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The nonpartisan Trusted Elections Tour with Jennifer Roberts and Bob Orr 12:59

22d ago12:59

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Jennifer Roberts and Bob Orr (Courtesy photos) It’s hard to believe, but early absentee voting will soon be underway in the fall election. And while a scattering of ill-informed critics continues to cast aspersions and promote conspiracy theories, the evidence is overwhelming that our state’s electoral systems are honest and trustworthy. What’s mor…

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kody Kinsley on a landmark effort to erase medical debt 24:19

28d ago24:19

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Kody Kinsley, secretary of the NC Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo: DHHS) It’s a sobering fact that one of the largest sources of consumer debt in North Carolina and across the nation is unpaid medical bills. Of course, no one gets sick or accumulates healthcare debt on purpose, but for most average households – including those with …

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Women’s healthcare advocate Amber Gavin on the state of reproductive healthcare 12:46

28d ago12:46

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Amber Gavin It’s been more than two years now since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion care and more than a year since North Carolina enacted a 12-week ban on the procedure – this on top of a raft of other burdensome and medically unnecessary restrictions. So, what can we say about what’s been happening since? Nationa…

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The Retina Radar With Dr. Arshad Khanani: Sustained Delivery With Dr. Peter Campochiaro 36:58

1M ago36:58

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss the benefits and limitations of sustained delivery systems in the treatment of retinal diseases. https://healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240801/4-the-retina-radar-with-dr-arshad-khanani-sustained-delivery

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The Retina Radar With Dr. Arshad Khanani: DME Management in 2024 With Dr. Veeral Sheth 29:57

1M ago29:57

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss the latest information, emerging clinical trial data, and real-world studies regarding the management of DME. https://healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240801/3-the-retina-radar-with-dr-arshad-khanani-dme-management-in-2024

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Sarah Ovaska on the state of voting rights in the South 13:47

1M ago13:47

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Sarah Ovaska (Photo: SCSJ) It seldom comes as a surprise when laws negatively impacting people of color are enacted in the American South and a new report from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice provides the latest list of sobering examples. The report, which is entitled “State of the South: Voting Rights Under Assault,” documents how voters…

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Meech Carter with the NC League of Conservation Voters discusses clean energy and climate change 17:46

1M ago17:46

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Meech Carter (Photo: NCLCV) As Tropical Storm Debby reminded North Carolinians in powerful and sobering fashion once again earlier this month, climate change continues to progress and grow more serious. While no one can say that any particular storm is a byproduct of climate change, scientists do say loudly and without equivocation that climate cha…

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Veteran NC political consultant Thomas Mills on the shifting energy in the presidential race 23:46

1M ago23:46

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Thomas Mills (Courtesy photo) It seemed almost unimaginable less than a month ago, but as they head into their national convention this week, U.S. Democrats are riding a wave of voter enthusiasm for presidential nominee – Vice President Kamala Harris – and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Indeed, polls in key swing states that showed Repu…

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NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’s Noel Nickle on their new plea to Gov. Cooper 14:51

1M ago14:51

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Noel Nickle, executive director of the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty It’s been 18 years now since North Carolina last put a person to death as punishment for a crime – a time period in which a fast-growing number of states and countries have abolished the death penalty. Nonetheless, the death penalty remains on the …

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Sen. Natalie Murdock on efforts to improve maternal health and the new energy of NC Democrats 24:28

2M ago24:28

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Senator Natalie Murdock (Photo: NCGA) The North Carolina General Assembly has mostly wrapped up the business its leaders intend to deal with in 2024, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some important matters that got left on the table. Take the vexing issue of maternal health. For decades North Carolina has experienced big and persistent problems …

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Meredith College political scientist David McLennan on the state of the presidential race 10:43

2M ago10:43

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Political scientist and pollster David McLennan Just weeks after President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not seek reelection and hours after she formally secured the nomination of the Democratic Party as its presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris selected Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate this past week. It’s the Ha…

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Colin Seeberger of the Center for American Progress discusses the controversial Project 2025 20:13

2M ago20:13

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Colin Seeberger (Courtesy photo) If you’ve been hearing a lot about something called Project 2025 of late, there’s good reason. It’s a 922-page policy blueprint from the far-right Heritage Foundation that its authors hope will serve as a lengthy “to do” list for a second Trump administration. The team that wrote it includes scores of former Trump s…

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In the Public Interest’s Donald Cohen discusses Project 2025 and the pitfalls of privatization 11:15

2M ago11:15

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Donald Cohen (Courtesy photo) Project 2025 is a detailed policy blueprint from the far-right Heritage Foundation that its authors hope will serve as a lengthy “to do” list for a second Trump administration. One disturbing part of the plan that’s gotten somewhat less attention than others is its emphasis on privatizing core public services – that is…

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The Retina Radar With Dr. Arshad Khanani: nAMD Management in 2024 With Dr. David Eichenbaum 38:40

2M ago38:40

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss new efficacy, safety, and durability data on dosing regimens, delivery systems, and emerging therapies for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). https://www.healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240729/2-the-retina-radar-with-dr-arshad-khanani-namd-management-in-202…

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The Retina Radar With Dr. Arshad Khanani: Clinical Trials at the Summit 2024 With Dr. Anat Loewenstein 28:21

2M ago28:21

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In this podcast, expert clinicians will discuss ongoing clinical trials and the latest data regarding advances in vitreoretinal care. https://www.healio.com/cme/mededtalks/ophthalmology/20240729/1-the-retina-radar-with-dr-arshad-khanani-clinical-trials-at-the-summit-2024

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Rep. Ashton Clemmons discusses her departure from the legislature, efforts to work across the aisle 14:48

2M ago14:48

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Rep. Ashton Wheeler Clemmons (Photo: NCGA) While it can certainly have many appealing aspects, serving in the North Carolina General Assembly can also be a very difficult assignment. The pay is less than minimum wage and has been frozen for decades. The length of sessions has gotten much longer and more unpredictable. And, of course, in recent year…

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NC Justice Center attorney Jason Pikler discusses efforts to crackdown on predatory debt buying 17:21

2M ago17:21

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Attorney Jason Pikler (Photo: Courtesy NC Justice Center) Debt buying. You may never have heard of it but amazingly, debt buying – a scheme in which companies buy old and stale claims from creditors for pennies on the dollar and then file lawsuits against thousands of debtors who may not even remember the debt – is a big and often predatory multi-m…

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NC State political scientist Steven Greene on the tumultuous last few weeks in politics 12:21

2M ago12:21

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NC State Professor of Political Science Steven Greene (Photo: NCSU) The political news has been coming at us like it’s shot from a firehose as of late and that was certainly the case this past week in and around President Joe Biden’s historic announcement that he will not seek reelection, and the remarkable jolt of electricity that his passing of t…

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Jennifer Roberts and Bob Orr with the North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe and Secure Elections 18:27

2M ago18:27

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Jennifer Roberts and Bob Orr (Courtesy photos) One very hopeful development for the security and honesty of elections in North Carolina in recent months has been the emergence of the North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe and Secure Elections. The bipartisan group is led by former Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and former state Supreme Court Justi…

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Duke University Prof. David Schanzer on political violence, the state of the presidential election 24:12

2M ago24:12

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Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy Professor David Schanzer (Courtesy photo) We’re in the midst of the dog days of summer, but it’s been anything but quiet of late when it comes to this year’s national presidential election. Between the horrific assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, the convening of the Republican National Convention …

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Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling on what voters are thinking about the nation’s top races 16:38

3M ago16:38

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Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen (Courtesy photo) For the last 17 years, one of the nation’s most knowledgeable and accurate political pollsters has been based right here in North Carolina. Over the course of numerous primary and general elections during that period, Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling has dissected and accurately forecast litera…

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Political scientist Chris Cooper on Joe Biden’s recent performance and what it means moving forward 19:04

3M ago19:04

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Prof. Chris Cooper of Western Carolina University As the nation heads towards one of its most important elections in modern history, a major ruckus has arisen among some Democrats around President Joe Biden’s age and whether his performance in a recent presidential debate with Donald Trump indicates that it’s time for him to step aside in favor of …

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Common Cause of NC’s Bob Phillips on the recessed legislative session, the state of election laws 15:01

3M ago15:01

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Bob Phillips, Executive Director of Common Cause North Carolina (Screengrab from press briefing) The North Carolina General Assembly wrapped up its 2024 “short session” recently and once again, it was a tough session for many basic aspects of democratic government. Whether they were unveiling secretly written proposals to overhaul state campaign fi…

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NC Tenants Union director Nick MacLeod on the daunting challenges facing renters in North Carolina 24:20

3M ago24:20

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NC Tenants Union executive director Nick MacLeod North Carolina has always been a state in which the law has allotted very few legal rights to residential tenants. Unless the actions of a landlord are truly outrageous – and sometimes even when they are – tenants rarely prevail when they seek to push back against evictions or fight for better rents …

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Duke Health physician Dr. Beverly Gray on state of reproductive healthcare in North Carolina

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Duke Health OB/GYN Dr. Beverly Gray (Photo: Courtesy of Scholars@Duke) It’s been two years now since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion care and since then, numerous states – including North Carolina – have moved rapidly to end or greatly restrict abortion access. In 2023, Republican state legislators in Raleigh enact…

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Budget & Tax Center director Alexandra Sirota on the legislature’s remake of the state tax system

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Alexandra Sirota (Photo: NC Budget & Tax Center) Ever since North Carolina Republicans took control of the state legislature in 2011, they’ve pursued a sustained and aggressive effort to remake the state’s tax and budget systems. Repeatedly, they’ve enacted big cuts to progressive levies like the personal and corporate income taxes that primarily i…

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Melissa Price Kromm of NC for the People Action on campaign finance, masks, and election funding

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Melissa Price Kromm If there’s been a most controversial bill to wend its way through the North Carolina General Assembly this spring, right now it has to be House Bill 237 – a proposal that would change state laws governing the wearing masks in public, the rights of public protesters and the complex rules that govern contributions to political cam…

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NC Child’s Erica Palmer Smith on child well-being and the 2024 KIDS Count data book

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Erica Palmer Smith For several years now, researchers at the national Annie E. Casey Foundation have measured and documented how well each U.S. state is doing when it comes to the well-being of its children. The annual KIDS Count report looks at several important indicators in fields like economic well-being, educational achievement and health, ass…

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Public Wise executive director Christina Baal-Owens on threats to democracy

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Christina Baal-Owens (Courtesy: Public Wise) It’s been well over three years since Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 election was thoroughly debunked, but tragically many American politicians – even some who participated in the January 6, 2021 insurrection – continue to hold elected office or to seek it as candidates in 2024. For Christina Baal-Owe…

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House Dem. leader Rep. Robert Reives on a controversial proposal to rewrite campaign finance laws

4M ago

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House Democraic leader Rep. Robert Reives (Photo: NCGA) North Carolina Republican legislative leaders sprang a big surprise on their Democratic colleagues and just about all legislative observers recently when they suddenly unveiled a new, out-of-nowhere and extremely complex proposal to rewrite state campaign finance laws. The legislation, which w…

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Virginia Kase Solomón, President of Common Cause, about the state of democracy in modern America

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Virginia Kase Solomón (Photo: Common Cause) If there’s a most troubling issue facing our nation and its elected leaders at the dawn of the summer of 2024, many observers believe it is the state of our democracy. In the aftermath of the failed January 6, 2021 insurrection and subsequent widespread threats of violence and retribution from politicians…

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Rep. Marcia Morey on efforts to roll back the recently enacted Raise the Age law 10:42

4M ago10:42

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Rep. Marcia Morey (Photo: NCGA) In 2019, North Carolina was the last state in the union to modernize its criminal justice system by ending the practice of automatically treating 16 and 17-year-olds accused of criminal offenses as adults. Now, however, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to backtrack on that progress. Under a bill moving thro…

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