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Every weekday, NC Newsline editor and veteran North Carolina policy observer Rob Schofield offers a 60-second take on the key policy issues that impact North Carolinians.
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Federal prosecutors should keep digging into legislature’s questionable pork spending
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NC voter attitudes on elections: both encouraging and worrisome
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Bill from Rep. Ross provides a reminder of the importance of government
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Courts should quickly toss out cynical GOP voter purge lawsuit
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kody Kinsley on a landmark effort to erase medical debt
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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 health insurance coverage – even a brief hospital stay can generate massive bills that ca…
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Women’s healthcare advocate Amber Gavin on the state of reproductive healthcare
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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? National statistics…
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Some obvious steps NC lawmakers should take to help working people
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Proposals to bill fossil fuel companies for climate change are a fine idea
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Conservative assaults on immigrant families hit a new low
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Conservative assaults on immigrant families hit a new low
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Another state funding cliff looms – this time for public schools
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Another state funding cliff looms – this time for public schools
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Proposed reforms for U.S. Supreme Court are necessary and overdue
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Sarah Ovaska on the state of voting rights in the South
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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 of color (as well as young…
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Meech Carter with the NC League of Conservation Voters discusses clean energy and climate change
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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 change is making hurricanes and…
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State should prohibit junk fee charges on school lunches
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Judge has chance to right a great wrong in Racial Justice Act case
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Ratepayers have a right to be concerned about Duke Energy’s political spending
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Every politician loves infrastructure, but many don’t want to pay for it
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New report highlights sorry state of voting rights in the South
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